Middlesbrough College

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Middlesbrough College
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Address
Middlesbrough College
Middlehaven
Dock Street

Middlesbrough
,
North Yorkshire
,
TS2 1AD

England
Coordinates 54°34′48″N1°13′41″W / 54.58000°N 1.22816°W / 54.58000; -1.22816
Information
Type Further education college
Established1 August 1995 [1]
Local authority Middlesbrough
Department for Education URN 130570 Tables
Ofsted Reports
PrincipalZoe Lewis
GenderMixed
Age16+
Enrolment14,232 (2013/14)
Opened by Prince Andrew, Duke of York (Middlehaven Site)
Website http://www.mbro.ac.uk

Middlesbrough College, located on one campus at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, is the largest college on Teesside.

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Admissions

It provides predominantly further education, but also selected higher education provision, and until 2008, existed on four different sites across the town (Marton, Acklam, Kirby and Longlands). Relocation to Middlehaven was one of Tees Valley Regeneration's major redevelopment projects.

It is situated [2] just north of the A66 and Middlesbrough town centre, next to Middlesbrough Dock and the dock tower, [3] and close to the Transporter Bridge and Middlesbrough FC's Riverside Stadium. The college is approximately 0.5 miles (1 km) from Middlesbrough railway station.

Student numbers during the 2013/14 college year were 14,232 (2013/14 annual report). [4]

History and estates

Former schools

Three of the pre-2008 sites were those of the former grammar schools when run by the Middlesbrough Education Committee:

Middlesbrough High School for Girls had 450 girls in the 1950s, and 600 in 1962. Middlesbrough High School for Boys had around 450 boys in the 1950s, and 600 in the mid-1960s. The boys' and girls' schools, both three-form entry schools, merged in September 1967 to form Middlesbrough High School, an ages 13–18 comprehensive with around 1,200 boys and girls and 500 in the sixth form. Middlesbrough High School became Middlesbrough and Marton Sixth Form College in 1974. In April 1974, the school had been taken over by the County of Cleveland (Cleveland County Council).

Acklam Hall Grammar School had 600 boys in the mid-1960s. It merged with Kirby to form Acklam High School, a comprehensive school, in 1968. This school then further changed in 1974 to Acklam Sixth Form College and King's Manor 11–16 School. The King's Manor School suffered a fire and moved across the road, Hall Drive, to share a site with Hall Garth School (now Hall Garth Community Arts College).

Former colleges

Longlands College of Further Education was on Douglas Street which opened in 1957, and at first partly used by the Constantine Technical College. It was near [5] the junction of Marton Road (A172) and Longlands Road (A1085) just west of North Ormesby.

Kirby College of Further Education was separate and established in 1968 on Roman Road. It had departments such as Food and Fashion, Catering, Hairdressing, and Business Studies, and taught single O-level subjects (re-takes or part-time). It also offered A level programmes in the late 1970s

Foundation through two mergers

Teesside Tertiary College was created on 1 August 1995 by the merger of Longlands College of Further Education and Marton Sixth Form College, and was based on Marton Road next to the James Cook University Hospital.

Middlesbrough College was formed when Kirby College of Further Education merged with Acklam Sixth Form College, also on 1 August 1995.

From 1992, these two colleges had been funded by the Further Education Funding Council for England. In 1995, Teesside Tertiary College offered £1,200 for every person signing up for A-level course who had eight A grades at GCSE.

Merger and move to new site

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Main Building

Middlesbrough College merged with Teesside Tertiary College on 1 August 2002, with it now being spread over four sites. Since 2001, these colleges had been funded by the Learning and Skills Council for England. Once the merger was complete, planning began for the relocation to a single site at Middlehaven in central Middlesbrough. Building work for the new college building at Middlehaven began in early 2007. In September 2008, the four separate sites were eventually consolidated onto a single site [6] with the opening of the new £68 million Middlesbrough college building. [7] [8] The Middlehaven site was officially opened on 12 February 2009 by Prince Andrew, Duke of York, [9] although the plaque marking the opening was removed in January 2022. [10]

The Middlehaven site has since grown with the opening of new college buildings adjacent to the main building. MC6 & MC SPORT (a sixth form centre & sports academy) opened in October 2012, [11] and MC STEM (science, technology, engineering & maths) was officially opened by Professor Brian Cox in November 2015. [12]

Former sites

Middlesbrough college's four previous sites were:

Most of the 18-acre (73,000 m2) Marton Campus [13] is in the process of becoming a housing estate with 275 houses being built by Taylor Woodrow. The remainder of the site was encompassed into part of the new Middlesbrough Sports Village with an outdoor velodrome replacing the football pitches. [14]

The 9-acre (36,000 m2) Kirby Campus now has 84 houses and 53 apartments built on it by Taylor Woodrow. The former Kirby Grammar School has become 21 apartments. The 9-acre (36,000 m2) Longlands Campus has become 104 houses built by Taylor Woodrow. This includes the former playing field and sports hall.

Curriculum

Courses range from university academics to vocational education. Selected higher education courses exist by virtue of an indirectly funded partnership arrangement with the Open University.

Alumni

Acklam Hall Grammar School for Boys

Middlesbrough High School for Boys

Middlesbrough High School for Girls

Kirby Grammar School

See also

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