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Gloucestershire College, from the canal. Gloucestershire College (GC or Gloscol) is a college of further and higher education in the county of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. [1] It offers a range of education and training programmes, which include: Apprenticeships and higher apprenticeships; Professional and technical qualifications; Higher ...
The college gained full university status in 2013 and changed its name accordingly. [9] It had 1,125 students in the 2022/23 academic year [1] and saw a 49% rise in applications between 2008 and 2013. [10] In 2021 the RAU expanded with the creation of a Cultural Heritage Institute based in Swindon. [11]
It was a purpose-built site for the Gloucestershire College of Domestic Science until 1962 and became renamed as the Gloucestershire College of Education in 1967. The college was closed in 1980 to be part of the merger of four Gloucestershire Colleges in Gloucester and Cheltenham to form Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology. [8] [47]
The Avon and Gloucestershire College of Health, which is now Glenside Campus, and the Bath and Swindon College of Health Studies joined in January 1996. Hartpury campus joined in 1997. The university was a lead academic sponsor of Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy, a new university technical college, until its closure in 2022. [11]
SGS Berkeley Green UTC is a university technical college in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. It opened in September 2017, [4] and is part of SGS Academy Trust (South Gloucestershire and Stroud Academy Trust). [3] It specialises in engineering, cybersecurity and digital technologies, [5] as well as STEM more broadly.
In January 2014, South Gloucestershire Council was consulting parents on ceasing admissions to new students from September 2015 and closing it on 31 August 2016. The school was placed into special measures following its Ofsted inspection in April 2013 where it was criticised for "not offering an acceptable standard of education".
The Gloucestershire Digital Skills Centre opened in 2022 funded by GFirst, Gloucestershire’s Local Enterprise Partnership from the Government’s ‘Getting Building Fund’ programme. The College’s new T-level building opened in February 2023; providing specialist accommodation for T-level students in engineering, health, construction ...
Gloucestershire (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər ʃ ər / ⓘ GLOST-ər-shər, /-ʃ ɪər /-sheer; abbreviated Glos.) [3] is a ceremonial county in South West England.It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire to the east, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and Somerset to the south-west, and the Welsh county of ...