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The City of Glasgow College (Scottish Gaelic: Colaiste Baile Glaschu) is a further and higher education college in the city of Glasgow. It was founded in 2010 when the Central College, Glasgow Metropolitan College, and the Glasgow College of Nautical Studies merged. [1] It is the largest college and technical institution in Scotland. [2]
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The College of Building has had a presence on the College's current site since 1927. The preceding colleges had a reputation for the provision of courses within the food, hospitality, tourism, construction and the creative industries. The merger and creation of Glasgow Metropolitan College created Glasgow’s biggest college with over 20,000 ...
The Glasgow Colleges' Regional Board (GCRB) is a regional strategic body for colleges in Glasgow, Scotland, established in May 2014 under the Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act. [1] The colleges assigned to it are City of Glasgow College, Glasgow Clyde College, and Glasgow Kelvin College. [2]
Central College merged with two other city centre colleges – Metropolitan, and Nautical – to form a "super college" that is the biggest in Scotland and one of the largest in the UK. The Central College Board and staff had originally opposed the plan, but after much negotiation among the three Colleges, the merger was agreed. [5]
The city centre is also home to four of Glasgow's higher education institutions: the University of Strathclyde, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow Caledonian University, and to the largest college in Britain – the City of Glasgow College in Cathedral Street.
The 2010s saw the creation of the new City of Glasgow College, which was formed from an earlier amalgamation of several further education colleges in the city (Glasgow Metropolitan College). A new "supercampus" was built on the former site of Allan Glen's College on Cathedral Street, and opened in 2014.
In May 2009, the college secured £5.6 million to replace the shed and construct a new marine college campus. [2] Much of the funding came from the Scottish Funding Council. [2] In September 2009, the college was partially evacuated due to a chemical incident. [5] In 2010, the college became part of the City of Glasgow College. [3]