Kirklees College
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Kirklees College is a 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 with two main centres in the towns of Dewsbury
Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds...

 and Huddersfield
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester. It lies north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....

 in West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

, England
England
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.

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. On 1 August, 2008 Huddersfield Technical College changed its name to Kirklees College.

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.

Dewsbury

The Dewsbury centre has three campuses in and around Dewsbury. Wheelwright Campus is often referred to as "The Batley School of Art and Design". This campus is on Halifax Road, Dewsbury, about 200 yards from the main site. Wheelwright Campus is home to all of the art courses, but is also home to sports and fitness courses, due to the large playing field on its grounds. The centre operates an award winning Photographic course - BA Hons Contemporary Photographic Arts, a full time three year honours degree from the University of Huddersfield
University of Huddersfield
The University of Huddersfield is a university located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.- History :The University traces its roots back to a Science and Mechanic Institute founded in 1825...

. The course has a national reputation and has approval from the 'British Institute of Professional Photographers'.

Huddersfield

A new campus is being constructed off Manchester Road, adjacent to the River Colne
River Colne
There are several different rivers named River Colne in England:* River Colne, Essex — passing through Colchester* River Colne, Hertfordshire — tributary of the River Thames, passing through London Colney and other parts of Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Greater London and Surrey* River...

, just outside the Huddersfield town centre, at a projected cost of £85 million, to replace the current New North Road Campus.

Accreditation

The Leeds Metropolitan University validates 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. Since its creation in 1998 by Eve Jones and Richard Gray, students have gone on to study at The Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...

, won the Unilever
Unilever
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 graduate of the year award and many other national and international prizes. The course exhibits in London every year at Free Range at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick lane.

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”.

Huddersfield Technical College

  • Sir David Brown
    David Brown (entrepreneur)
    Sir David Brown was an English entrepreneur, managing director of his family firm David Brown Limited and one time owner of shipbuilders Vosper Thornycroft and automobile manufacturer Aston Martin....

    , engineer who founded David Brown Tractors Ltd
    David Brown Ltd.
    David Brown Engineering Limited is a British engineering company, principally engaged in the manufacture of gears and gearboxes. Their major gear manufacturing plant is in Swan Lane, Lockwood, Huddersfield, adjacent to Lockwood railway station...

     in 1935
  • Anthony Flinn
    Anthony Flinn
    Anthony Flinn is a British chef, born in Liverpool in 1980, and now based in Leeds. After studying at Huddersfield Technical College, he worked at the Michelin-starred restaurant Lords of the Manor, in Gloucestershire, for two years. Moving on to Barcelona, despite not speaking a word of Spanish,...

    , chef
  • Justin Hawkins
    Justin Hawkins
    Justin David Hawkins is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist of The Darkness, alongside his brother, guitarist Dan Hawkins...

    , musician
  • Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes, Labour MP from 1945-64 for Ashton-under-Lyne
    Ashton-under-Lyne (UK Parliament constituency)
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  • Sir William Swallow, Managing Director from 1961-5 of Vauxhall Motors (Chairman from 1961-6)

Dewsbury College

  • Betty Boothroyd
    Betty Boothroyd
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    , Labour MP from 1973-4 for West Bromwich
    West Bromwich (UK Parliament constituency)
    West Bromwich was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1974. It was based around West Bromwich, in the West Midlands...

     and from 1974-2000 for West Bromwich West
  • Walter Harrison
    Walter Harrison
    Walter Harrison is a British Labour politician.Harrison was educated at Dewsbury Technical College and School of Art. He was a foreman electrician and was active in the Electricians' Trade Union...

    , Labour MP from 1964-87 for Wakefield
    Wakefield (UK Parliament constituency)
    Wakefield is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...

  • Keith Hellawell
    Keith Hellawell
    Keith Hellawell is a former British police officer, who was the New Labour government's drugs advisor and so called "drugs czar" from January 1998. He resigned from his position in July 2002 over the government's reclassification of cannabis from a Class B to a Class C substance...

    , Chief Constable from 1993-8 of West Yorkshire Police
    West Yorkshire Police
    West Yorkshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing West Yorkshire in England. It is the fourth largest force in England and Wales by number of officers, with 5671 officers....

     and from 1990-3 of Cleveland Police
    Cleveland Police
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  • Andi Watson
    Andi Watson
    Andrew "Andi" Watson is a British cartoonist and illustrator best known for the graphic novels Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day and his series Love Fights, published by Oni Press and Slave Labor Graphics....

    , cartoonist

Wheelwright Grammar School for Boys

  • Richard Alexander, Conservative MP from 1979-97 for Newark
    Newark (UK Parliament constituency)
    Newark is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Since 1885, it has elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....

  • John Dunning CBE, Director from 1955-72 of the Rocket Propulsion Establishment
    Rocket Propulsion Establishment
    The Rocket Propulsion Establishment at Westcott, Buckinghamshire on the site of the former RAF Westcott has made a number of notable contributions in the field of rocket propulsion, including input on the rocket design for the Blue Streak missile and the propulsion systems on Chevaline...

     at Westcott, Buckinghamshire
    Westcott, Buckinghamshire
    Westcott is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located about a mile west of Waddesdon.The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'west cottage'....

  • Robin Esser
    Robin Esser
    Robin Charles Esser is a British newspaper executive and former editor.After undertaking National Service and studying at Wadham College, Oxford University where he edited the Cherwell newspaper, Esser began his career as a reporter with the Daily Express and Daily Sketch in 1957...

    , Editor from 1986-9 of the Sunday Express
  • William George Fearnsides
    William George Fearnsides
    William George Fearnsides FRS was a British geologist....

    , Sorby Professor of Geology from 1913-45 at the University of Sheffield
    University of Sheffield
    The University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...

  • Joseph Fitton, Chief General Manager in 1956 of the Midland Bank
    Midland Bank
    Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836...

  • Philip Fothergill
    Philip Fothergill
    Philip Fothergill was an English woollen manufacturer and Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:...

    ,
  • Leslie Fox
    Leslie Fox
    Leslie Fox was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to numerical analysis.Fox studied mathematics as a scholar of Christ Church, Oxford graduating with a First in 1939 and continued to undertake research in the engineering department. While working on his D.Phil...

    , mathematician
  • Sir Marcus Fox
    Marcus Fox
    Sir John Marcus Fox MBE was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as the Member of Parliament for Shipley from 1970 to 1997. He was chairman of the 1922 Committee and he directly oversaw candidate selection for the Conservative Party in the 1979 General Election.-Early life:Fox had...

    , Conservative MP from 1970-97 for Shipley
    Shipley (UK Parliament constituency)
    -Elections in the 2000s:-Elections in the 1990s:-Elections in the 1980s:-Elections in the 1970s:-Elections in the 1910s:...

  • Larry Hirst
    Larry Hirst
    Larry Hirst CBE is the former Chairman of IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa. He was appointed to this position in April, 2008 and retired from IBM in July 2010....

     CBE, Chairman since 2008 of IBN
    IBN
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     Europe, Middle East and Africa
  • Prof Tom Kilburn
    Tom Kilburn
    Tom Kilburn CBE, FRS was an English engineer. With Freddie Williams he worked on the Williams Tube and the world's first stored-program computer, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine , while working at the University of Manchester.-Computer engineering:Kilburn was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire and...

     CBE, worked with Frederic Calland Williams
    Frederic Calland Williams
    Sir Frederic Calland Williams CBE, FRS , known as 'Freddie Williams', was an English engineer....

     to produce the Manchester Mark 1
    Manchester Mark 1
    The Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest stored-program computers, developed at the Victoria University of Manchester from the Small-Scale Experimental Machine or "Baby" . It was also called the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, or MADM...

     known as Baby in 1946, one of the first computers, and Professor of Computer Science from 1964-81 at the University of Manchester
    University of Manchester
    The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...

  • John Morrell, BBC producer of Children in Need
    Children in Need
    Children in Need is an annual British charity appeal organised by the BBC. Since 1980 it has raised over £500 million. The highlight of the Children in Need appeal is an annual telethon, held in November. A teddy bear named "Pudsey Bear" fronts the campaign, while Terry Wogan is a long...

    and That's Life!
    That's Life!
    That's Life! was a magazine-style television series on BBC1 between 26 May 1973 and 19 June 1994, presented by Esther Rantzen throughout the entire run, with various changes of co-presenters. The show was generally recorded about an hour prior to transmission, which was originally on Saturday...

  • Tony Nicholson
    Tony Nicholson
    Anthony George "Tony" Nicholson was an English cricketer: a medium-pace bowler who played county cricket for Yorkshire between 1962 and 1975...

    , cricketer
  • Donald Sadler OBE, President from 1967-9 of the Royal Astronomical Society
    Royal Astronomical Society
    The Royal Astronomical Society is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research . It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV...

  • William Senior CBE, Chief Dental Officer
    Chief Dental Officer (United Kingdom)
    The Chief Dental Officer for England is the British Government's most senior advisor for dentistry in England, and is the head of dental staff and dental profession in England...

     from 1947-61
  • Air Commodore
    Air Commodore
    Air commodore is an air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...

     Edmund Stockwell CB, Command Education Officer from 1968-72 of RAF Training Command
    RAF Training Command
    Training Command was the RAF's command responsible for flying and ground training from 1936 to 1940 and again from 1968 to 1977.-History:Training Command was formed from Inland Area on 1 May 1936 and absorbed into RAF Support Command on 13 June 1977...

  • Dr Percy Walker CBE, aeronautical engineer, who helped design the Hawker Hurricane
    Hawker Hurricane
    The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd for the Royal Air Force...

    , and later was largely responsible at the Royal Aircraft Establishment
    Royal Aircraft Establishment
    The Royal Aircraft Establishment , was a British research establishment, known by several different names during its history, that eventually came under the aegis of the UK Ministry of Defence , before finally losing its identity in mergers with other institutions.The first site was at Farnborough...

     for discovering that metal fatigue
    Fatigue (material)
    'In materials science, fatigue is the progressive and localized structural damage that occurs when a material is subjected to cyclic loading. The nominal maximum stress values are less than the ultimate tensile stress limit, and may be below the yield stress limit of the material.Fatigue occurs...

     caused the first de Havilland Comet
    De Havilland Comet
    The de Havilland DH 106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland at the Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom headquarters, it first flew in 1949 and was a landmark in aeronautical design...

     airliners to crash
  • Eddie Waring
    Eddie Waring
    Edward Marsden "Eddie" Waring was a British rugby league football coach, commentator and television presenter....

    , rugby league commentator

See also

  • University of Huddersfield
    University of Huddersfield
    The University of Huddersfield is a university located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.- History :The University traces its roots back to a Science and Mechanic Institute founded in 1825...

    - from 1896-1956 also known as Huddersfield Technical College, then Huddersfield College of Technology until 1970

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