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The Derby College of Higher Education split from Derby College of Further Education (FE) during the 1960s. Derby FE was primarily targeted at part-time students from engineering companies such as Rolls-Royce and British Rail. This provision continued through to the 1980s until a major restructuring of industry and the apprenticeship system.
The City and Guilds of London Institute the forerunner of Imperial College engineering school has been offering vocational education through apprenticeships since the 1870s from basic craft skills (mechanic, hairdresser, chef, plumbing, carpentry, bricklaying, etc.) all the way up to qualifications equivalent to university master's degrees and ...
A shoemaker and his apprentice c. 1914 Electricians are often trained through apprenticeships. Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading). Apprenticeships may also enable practitioners to gain a license ...
A university technical college is a non-selective free school funded directly by the Department for Education, [2] free to attend, and outside the control of the local education authority. University technical colleges specialise in subjects like engineering and construction, and teach these subjects along with employability and IT skills. [ 3 ]
Derby has special needs establishments including Ivy House School at the Derby Moor Community Sports College (which takes pupils from nursery to sixth form) and the Light House which is a respite facility for children and parents. Allestree Woodlands School have a Hearing Impaired department, and Saint Benedict have an Enhanced Resource Base ...
In 1928, the Technical College split into the Derby School of Art and the Derby Technical College. By 1955, the two had become the Derby and District College of Art (opened on 22 September 1966 by Paul Reilly, Director of the Council of Industrial Design), and the Derby and District College of Technology (opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 15 May 1964), both situated on Kedleston ...
This was a merger forced by the UK Government, despite Derby College having withdrawn an initial bid to merge with the failing college due to its crippling financial status. The final stages of a merger with The University of Derby were overturned by the newly elected Government, and the two remaining campus in Heanor and Ilkeston became a ...
Buxton College was originally named High Peak College, which was an independent FE College up until 1998, when it was dissolved as an independent entity and merged into the University of Derby. [7] High Peak College originally opened in 1955 in buildings in Buxton town centre, before moving out of the town centre to Harpur Hill in 1964 into ...