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Pressure from local firms with education and training policies resulted in the Education Committee supporting a plan for Peterborough Technical College, initially at the Garton End Road site. [2] The separate Adult Education Institute became Peterborough College of Adult Education in 1970, when it moved to its own premises on Brook Street. [3]
City College Peterborough is an adult and community learning college in the city of Peterborough in the United Kingdom. Established in 1970, as Peterborough College of Adult Education (PCAE), the college traces its origins to 1944, with the opening of the Adult Education Institute, which became part of Peterborough Technical College in 1946.
Greater Peterborough University Technical College (GPUTC) is Peterborough's only STEM and built environment specialist school for students aged 11 to 19. Located in Peterborough city centre, the £12 million state of the art school opened in September 2016.
The building was renamed Peterborough Collegiate and in August 2012 opened as a re-purposed facility offering alternative and continuing education (ACE). [2] Peterborough Collegiate was founded in 1827 as the Peterborough Government School on the former property of Central Public School.
By 2004, Peterborough College attracted over 15,000 students each year from the UK and abroad and was ranked in the top five per cent of colleges in the UK. [110] Greater Peterborough University Technical College is a new education facility set to open in September 2015. [111]
At around this time, Peterborough Regional College (a local further education college) was offering a limited range of higher education diplomas and degrees in conjunction with Anglia Ruskin University. In 2006, the two institutions began talks on developing a new university campus for the city and created a new joint venture company in 2007.
St. Thomas Moore Roman Catholic (Voluntary Aided) Primary and St. John Fisher RC Comprehensive schools are also located in the area. Peterborough Regional College was founded in 1946 as Peterborough Technical College. In 1952 the first instalment of the purpose-built Eastfield site opened on land adjacent to the East of England Showground.
Peterborough City Hall at 500 George Street North in downtown Peterborough houses the municipal government and also the central offices of Peterborough Social Services. The municipal budget for 2008 for the city is projected to be $190.9 million, an increase from 2007's actual expenditures of $185.4 million, or 2.9%.