South Lanarkshire College
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Type | College of Further Education |
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Established | 1948 |
Principal | Aileen McKechnie |
Students | 5,000 |
Location | , , 55°45′13″N 4°09′30″W / 55.7535°N 4.1582°WCoordinates: 55°45′13″N 4°09′30″W / 55.7535°N 4.1582°W |
Website | http://www.south-lanarkshire-college.ac.uk/ |
South Lanarkshire College is a further education institution in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Its campus is located in East Kilbride, with new buildings completed in 2008 at a site between the town centre and the Kelvin industrial area.[1]
The college was founded in 1948 as a building school in Cambuslang and had several sites for its various departments over its history, including at Blantyre, Motherwell, Hamilton and Wishaw.[1] Its last site in Cambuslang was at the former Gateside School which dated from the 1880s, but was demolished soon after the college relocated entirely to East Kilbride.[2]
In 2019, the college was chosen as the site for a monument to the workers at the nearby, recently closed Rolls-Royce engineering works who refused to fix military aircraft engines used by the Pinochet regime of Chile in the 1970s (detailed in the documentary movie Nae Pasaran);[3] the monument itself is one of the engines sent to the factory which was never used again.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-11-12. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ The end of an era, Daily Record, 29 October 2008
- ^ On yer way, Pinochet! The factory workers who fought fascism from Glasgow, The Guardian, 1 November 2018
- ^ ‘Permanent tribute’ | Nae Pasaran: Jet engine monument to Pinochet boycotters unveiled, Unite Live, 25 October 2019
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- Educational institutions established in 1948
- Further education colleges in Scotland
- Education in South Lanarkshire
- 1948 establishments in Scotland
- East Kilbride
- Buildings and structures completed in 2008
- Cambuslang
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