Boston College, Lincolnshire
Encyclopedia
- This article is about the Boston College in Lincolnshire, England; for the university in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, see Boston CollegeBoston CollegeBoston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...
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Boston College is a predominantly further education
Further education
Further education is a term mainly used in connection with education in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is post-compulsory education , that is distinct from the education offered in universities...
college in Boston
Boston, Lincolnshire
Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. It is the largest town of the wider Borough of Boston local government district and had a total population of 55,750 at the 2001 census...
in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
, England
England
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. It is a Centre of Vocational Excellence
Centre of Vocational Excellence
Centre of Vocational Excellence is a status given to departments in further education colleges in England...
(CoVE) for Early Years Care
Childcare
Child care means caring for and supervising child/children usually from 0–13 years of age. In the United States child care is increasingly referred to as early childhood education due to the understanding of the impact of early experiences of the developing child...
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History
It opened in 1964 when in HollandHolland, Lincolnshire
Holland is an area of south-east Lincolnshire, England. The name is still recognised locally and survives in the district of South Holland.-Administration:...
. It became administered by Lincolnshire in 1974. It is the place to take A levels in Boston for those not attending the two grammar school
Grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
s. Unlike some local further education colleges, it is not affiliated to the University of Lincoln
University of Lincoln
The University of Lincoln is an English university founded in 1992, with origins tracing back to the foundation and association with the Hull School of Art 1861....
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Structure
It has two main sites and a performing arts centre:- Skirbeck Road (Rochford Campus) - next to the River WithamRiver WithamThe River Witham is a river, almost entirely in the county of Lincolnshire, in the east of England. It rises south of Grantham close to South Witham, at SK8818, passes Lincoln at SK9771 and at Boston, TF3244, flows into The Haven, a tidal arm of The Wash, near RSPB Frampton Marsh...
and the Boston Leisure Centre. Students can swim there for free. This site has the engineering workshops and beauty therapy. It has halls of resident for up to 200 overseas students. Also learning English at the college are Boston's many migrant workers. - Mill Road (De Montfort Campus, PE21 0HF) - off St Nicholas Road, in the east of Boston (known as Skirbeck), just south of (and next to) St Nicholas CE Primary School. This site is the former Kitwood Boys SchoolKitwood Boys SchoolKitwood Boys School was a Secondary modern school for boys which began life in the early 1950s as part of the new Attlee Labour government's education programme . Initially the school provided an education to those not attaining higher Grammar School standards...
(the girls' school became Haven HighHaven High Technology CollegeHaven High Technology College is a comprehensive school located on Marian Road in the north of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. HHTC offers a broad and flexible curriculum to students of most abilities. The college combines its distinctive approach to the education of young people with the added...
). It has the gym and sports pitches. It has the computer suites and artwork department. - In the town centre is the Sam Newsom Centre on South Street, which has music facilities and a concert hall.
Campuses
Along with the college's two main campusesCampus
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and its performing-arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
centre in Boston town, it has "learning centres" for I.T.
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
across Lincolnshire in:
- Boston - on the Market Place (PE21 6NF)
- Long SuttonLong Sutton, LincolnshireLong Sutton, is a market town in Lincolnshire, England. Located in South Holland district, it lies close to the Wash.-Geography:The town has an estimated population of 5,037 in 2007. It is 13 miles east from Spalding.-Lincolnshire Fens:...
- on Market Street (PE12 9DD) - SkegnessSkegnessSkegness is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Located on the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, east of the city of Lincoln it has a total resident population of 18,910....
on Briar Way (PE25 3NR) (formerly at ButlinsButlinsButlins is a chain of large holiday camps in the United Kingdom. Butlins was founded by Billy Butlin to provide affordable holidays for ordinary British families....
holiday camp in IngoldmellsIngoldmellsIngoldmells is a coastal village, civil parish and resort in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, on the A52.-Geography:In terms of villages it is relatively large, and receives a lot of tourism yearly due its close position to Skegness. Most housing is found in the west of the...
) - SpaldingSpalding, LincolnshireSpalding is a market town with a population of 30,000 on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Little London is a hamlet directly south of Spalding on the B1172 road....
- on Westlode Street (PE11 2AF) - SleafordSleafordSleaford is a town in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is located thirteen miles northeast of Grantham, seventeen miles west of Boston, and nineteen miles south of Lincoln, and had a total resident population of around 14,500 in 6,167 households at the time...
- in The Hub on the Riverside (NG34 7PD) (formerly on Carre Street)
It used to have two other learning centres at Coningsby
Coningsby
Coningsby is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.-Geography:Taking its name from the Old Norse 'konungr' meaning 'King' with an Old Norse suffix 'by' meaning 'the settlement of' which gives Coningsby the meaning 'The Settlement of the King'...
/Tattershall
Tattershall
Tattershall is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, located on the A153 Horncastle to Sleaford road, east of the point where that road crosses the River Witham. At its eastern end, Tattershall adjoins the village of Coningsby, to the north of the village...
and Market Deeping
Market Deeping
Market Deeping is a market town in Lincolnshire, England, on the north bank of the River Welland and the A15 road.-Geography:It is the second largest of The Deepings and its eponymous market has been held since at least 1220. The river here forms the Lincolnshire/Cambridgeshire border with...
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New buildings
There are plans for a £79m expansion of the college to replace the Skirbeck Road and Mill Road sites..Principals
- The current Principal is Amanda Mosek, a former Deputy Principal at Grantham College
- Sue Daley, 2005-2011
- David Pomfret in 2001-5
- David Pursell was Principal from 1986 to 2001
External links
News items
- Plans for food centre in Spalding in July 2009
- Plans for expansion in November 2008
- Plans for West Street site stopped in June 2007
- Abi Titmuss musical banned in May 2006
- Burglary in April 2006