| Lincoln College | |
| Coordinates: | 53.231°N -0.5352°W |
| Established: | 1932 |
| Type: | College of Further and Higher Education |
| Head Label: | Chief Executive |
| Head: | Mark Locking |
| Address: | Monks Road |
| City: | Lincoln |
| County: | Lincolnshire |
| Country: | England |
| Postcode: | LN2 5HQ |
| Local Authority: | Lincolnshire |
| Dfeno: | 925/8006 |
| Urn: | 130762 |
| Ofsted: | yes |
| Enrolment: | 13,318 (Feb 2011) |
| Lower Age: | 15 |
| Website: | http://www.lincolncollege.ac.uk/ |
Lincoln College is a predominantly further education college based in the City of Lincoln, England.
The college's main site is on Monks Road (B1308), specifically to the north, and to the south of Lindum Hill (A15). It was formerly known as the Lincoln College of Technology and was one of the sites for North Lincolnshire College.
The college also has sites in Gainsborough, and also in Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire (since merging with the former Newark and Sherwood College in 2007[1]).
The two branch sites are branded as Gainsborough College and Newark College respectively.
More than 11,000 students are enrolled across the three sites, making it one of the largest educational establishments in the county of Lincolnshire. The college closed its small fourth campus in Louth, Lincolnshire in 2005.
The site was known as Gainsborough College of Further Education, on Morton Terrace. The County Technical College was built from 1938, with a new grammar school.[2] The land was bought by Lincolnshire County Council from Sir Hickman Beckett Bacon, High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1887.[3] It opened in June 1941.[4] At a meeting of Lincolnshire County Council, on Tuesday 17 June 1975, the name was changed from County Technical College.[5]
The Secretary of State for Education, Sir Keith Joseph, visited the college and the grammar schools on Friday 18 June 1982, after visiting Lincoln. He had a buffet lunch prepared by college catering students. Fred Rickard also attended, the director of education for Lincolnshire. [6] Fred Rickard died in May 2010, and had joined Lindsey County Council in 1967, having taught in Leicestershire schools until 1970, becoming director of education in 1978, when aged 50;[7] he was educated at Devonport High School for Boys and the University of Leicester.[8]
The merger with Lincoln was proposed in September 1986, due to the lower birth rate meaning that there was less 16 year olds by the early 1990s.[9] Staff at Gainsborough thought it would mean the closure of the site.[10] The combined site started on 1 September 1987.[11]
The college was earlier known as Lincoln Technical College and built on Cathedral Street in 1932.
It became Lincoln College of Technology in the early 1970s, then administered by the City of Lincoln Education Committee. In the mid-1980s the college piloted the Technician Engineering Scholarship Scheme (TESS), funded by the Engineering Industry Training Board, a scheme for women.[12]
Two new blocks were added between 1976 and 1978, for business and management studies.[13]
North Lincolnshire College (known as NLC from 1989) was created on 1 September 1987 by Lincolnshire County Council from combining the Lincoln site with Gainsborough College of Further Education and part of the Louth Further Education Centre.
It previously had its headquarters on Cathedral Street until 1993. In the early 1990s it offered degrees and HNDs in Business Studies, Electronics, and Computer Studies in conjunction with Nottingham Trent University, becoming an associate college in 1994. In 1997 the Principal, Allan Crease, in a speech to the Association of Colleges criticised the means of funding from the Further Education Funding Council for England (FEFC), where money was allocated by numbers at the college, and staff received less pay than those at school.
In the late 1990s the University of Lincoln was being developed, subsuming Lincoln College of Art, and offered similar courses to the college, but the university was not fully built until the mid-2000s. In the late 1990s the college had a student population of around 15,000 and over 20,000 by 2001.
It soon after changed its name to Lincoln College, not least because North Lincolnshire was an area not covered by the college. From 2010 it was funded by the East Midlands LSC, based in Leicester, although the local LSC office was based nearby on Kingsley Road in North Hykeham.[14]
Eight different buildings make up Lincoln College's main site, including the Abbey, Gibney, Sessions, Bishops and Cathedral Buildings. Bishops Building, located to the back of the site, contains a technology school. This has electronics courses including BTEC National Diploma Electrical and Electronic Engineering course.
Part of the college, the Gibney Building, is the site of the former City School, previously the Lincoln Technical School, which for a time became the headquarters of the Lincoln Archaeological Trust in the early 1970s.
From November 1940, boys from the Bablake School in Coventry were evacuated to the City of Lincoln School for two and a half years. Girls from Bablake School were evacuated to South Park High School for Girls (now Priory LSST). Roundhay Grammar School had been evacuated to Lincoln School (now LCHS) on Wragby Road.
The school had around 600 boys in the 1960s. Former members of this school have their City School Lincoln Association.
The automotive technology program at Lincoln College includes training in fuel systems, electrical systems, driving diagnostics and transmissions, and techniques to install, repair and maintain vehicles. There are higher education courses in Computing Higher National Diplomas in Internet and Computer Science & NVQ in Logistics Operations Management. Instructors are certified through the Automotive Service of Excellence (ASE).[21] areas. The college has higher education links with universities including the University of Lincoln and Nottingham Trent University.