Kirklees College Explained

Kirklees College
Coordinates:53.648°N -1.788°W
Established:1 August 2008
Type:Further education college
Head Label:Principal
Head:Marie Gilluley
Address:Waterfront Quarter
City:Huddersfield
Country:England
Postcode:HD1 3HH
Local Authority:Kirklees
Ofsted:yes
Urn:130537
Dfeno:8001
Gender:Coeducational
Lower Age:16
Free Label 1:Former name
Free 1:Dewsbury College and Huddersfield Technical College
Website:http://www.kirkleescollege.ac.uk

Kirklees College is a further education college with two main centres in the towns of Dewsbury and Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.

History

The college was formed on 1 August 2008 after the Dewsbury College Dissolution order approved that the corporation of Dewsbury College be dissolved and all its property, rights and liabilities transferred to Huddersfield Technical College.[1] On 1 August 2008 Huddersfield Technical College changed its name to Kirklees College.[2]

Former colleges

Part of Dewsbury College is the former Wheelwright Grammar School for Boys. It had around 450 boys in the 1960s and was administered by the County Borough of Dewsbury Education Committee.

The Batley School of Art[3] moved to the Wheelwright Grammar School site on Birkdale Road. In addition to arts courses, Batley School of Art was also home to sports and fitness courses, due to the large playing field on its grounds.[4] The centre operated an award-winning Photographic course – BA Hons Contemporary Photographic Arts, a full-time three year honours degree from the University of Huddersfield.[5] The course had a national reputation and has approval from the 'British Institute of Professional Photographers', until it closed in 2018 [6]

The main campus was on Halifax Road, Dewsbury, closed October 2020.[7]

Sites

Dewsbury

The Dewsbury centre has two campuses in and around Dewsbury:

Former centres were previously known as Dewsbury and Batley Technical and Art College (DABTAC)

Huddersfield

The main site is a new campus off Manchester Road,[10] adjacent to the River Colne, just outside the Huddersfield town centre, at a cost of £74 million, in 2013 it replaced the New North Road Campus .[11] [12]

There are 4 additional satellite sites in Huddersfield:

Engineering and adjacent Process Manufacturing Centres,[13] provides full and part time courses in engineering related fields including manufacturing, welding and motor vehicle.

The Brunel Construction Centre,[14] located just off the A62, which offers courses in construction related fields including plumbing, bricklaying, plastering, electrical installation and plumbing.

The college's Taylor Hill Centre, on Close Hill Road in the Huddersfield suburb of Taylor Hill, provides full-time courses relating to animal care, land-based studies, conservation and countryside management.[15]

Accreditation

The Leeds Metropolitan University validated the School of Art and Designs' flagship course B.A.Hons "Fine Art for Design", an internationally renowned and award-winning course. Art, Design & Fashion.[16] Since its creation in 1998 by Eve Jones and Richard Gray, students have gone on to study at The Royal College of Art, won the Unilever graduate of the year award and many other national and international prizes. The course exhibited in London every year at Free Range at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane.[17]

Legal action

In November 2010 the college paid £5,000 compensation in a private settlement to a blind student, Tmara Senior, after legal action was taken against the school, for bullying by a teacher and other students in 2008. Tmara Senior and her husband Wayne, who is also blind said that they think it's important that what happened to Tmara shouldn't be "covered up" and "forgotten".[18]

Alumni

Batley School of Art

Huddersfield Technical College

Dewsbury College

Wheelwright Grammar School for Boys

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Dewsbury College (Dissolution) Order 2008.
  2. Web site: News (Happy Learners)- dewsbury children's daycare nursery . 4 May 2010 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090609012406/http://happy-learners.co.uk/bm/news/index.shtml . 9 June 2009 .
  3. http://wildyorkshire.blog/2019/07/batley-school-of-art/ Batley School of Art
  4. Web site: Sport. 28 November 2009. Kirklees College.
  5. Web site: Colleges in Wheelwright Campus, Birkdale Road, Dewsbury.. 28 November 2009. kyotee.co.uk. 7 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120307002032/http://kyotee.co.uk/uk-business-directory/Wheelwright+Campus,+Birkdale+Road,+Dewsbury/449/Colleges.htm. dead.
  6. Web site: 2009. Batley School of Art. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090918195759/http://www.dewsbury.ac.uk/site01/Default.aspx?tabid=87. 18 September 2009. 15 November 2009. Kirklees College.
  7. Web site: Batley School Of Art, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, Wheelwright Centre, Birkdale Road. 15 November 2009. cylex-uk.
  8. Web site: Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership. 2021. New Kirklees College Springfield Centre is now open. West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
  9. News: Greenwood. John. 22 October 2020. First look inside Kirklees College's £14m Dewsbury Pioneer House project. Dewsbury Reporter.
  10. News: Whitwam. Linda. 13 August 2013. Everything shipshape at Kirklees College's new Waterfront Centre. Examiner.
  11. News: Kirklees College gets go ahead to move to new £85m Huddersfield site. Huddersfield Examiner . 28 November 2009.
  12. News: Work officially begins on new Kirklees College site. Huddersfield Examiner . 15 November 2009.
  13. Web site: Kirklees College. 2021. Engineering Centre.
  14. Web site: Kirklees College. Brunel Construction Centre.
  15. Web site: Kirklees College – Taylor Hill Centre . Kirklees Council . 12 March 2015.
  16. Web site: Art, Design & Fashion. Kirklees College. 28 November 2009.
  17. Web site: Free Range – Europe's largest showcase of graduate art & design. Free Range. 15 November 2009. 2008.
  18. News: Kirklees College pay bullied blind woman £5,000 in private settlement . Huddersfield Examiner . 30 November 2010. 30 November 2010.

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