South Cheshire College

South Cheshire College

Established	1968
Type	Further Education College
Principal	Jasbir Dhesi
Location	Dane Bank Avenue Crewe Cheshire CW2 8AB England Coordinates: 53°05′16″N 2°27′13″W / 53.087653°N 2.453475°W / 53.087653; -2.453475
Local authority	Cheshire East
DfE URN	130619 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Ages	16+
Website	www.scc.ac.uk

South Cheshire College is a further education college, located in Crewe, England. The College is a single campus situated in a residential area about one mile from Crewe town centre. The College is the sole provider of post-16 education in Crewe. It also attracts students from Nantwich, Alsager, Middlewich, Sandbach, Congleton and throughout South and East Cheshire. The College also provides courses for adults at a range of centres, including high street locations in Middlewich and Congleton.^[1]

History

South Cheshire College opened in 1966 and was officially opened by the Queen Mother in 1968. The student engineers were the first to enter the College amongst them Tom Binkley, who, up until October 2009 when he retired, went on to become an engineering lecturer at the College. This building was replaced by a brand new single campus building, started in 2008 and completed in 2010. The new campus is 4 stories high, but occupies a larger footprint than the original.

New building opened in September 2010

The design of the Crescent shaped atrium was driven by the requirement to retain an oak tree copse within the campus area. The atrium curves around the copse on one side and on the other, a moat separates the copse from other parts of the campus. Five buildings radiate from the Crescent site, including the Library building, the Theatre building and the other three buildings, named East, West and North, based on the general direction each one faces. These contain academic classrooms and vocational workshops.

The College offers a large number of courses and is renowned for the lectures in its engineering department.

South Cheshire College panorama – rear view of old campus

College facilities

The College offers a range of services to students, and to local residents and schools. Such examples are:

Alumni

Tashi Dorje, tenor
Simon Radley, chef
Chloe Lloyd, model

Awards

The College has received numerous awards,^[2] including coming top in the 2004 Ofsted report.^[3]

References

Universities and colleges in North West England

Universities	Bolton BPP Central Lancashire Chester Cumbria Edge Hill Lancaster Law Liverpool Liverpool Hope Liverpool John Moores Manchester Manchester Metropolitan Salford

University colleges	Royal Northern College of Music

Further Education colleges	Accrington & Rossendale Blackburn Blackpool & The Fylde Bolton Burnley Bury Carlisle Co-operative Furness Hopwood Hall Hugh Baird Kendal Knowsley Lakes Lancaster & Morecambe Liverpool Macclesfield Manchester Mid Cheshire Myerscough Nelson & Colne Oldham Preston's Reaseheath Riverside Runshaw St Helens Salford South Cheshire Southport Stockport Tameside Trafford Warrington West Cheshire West Lancashire Wigan & Leigh Wirral Metropolitan

Sixth form colleges	Aquinas Ashton Barrow-in-Furness Birkenhead Blackpool Bolton Bolton Wanderers Cardinal Newman Carmel Cheadle & Marple Connell Holy Cross Hyde Clarendon King George V Loreto Oldham Priestley Rainford Rochdale Sir John Deane's St John Rigby St Mary's South Sefton Thomas Whitham Winstanley Xaverian

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