Calderdale College

Calderdale College
Location	Francis Street Halifax West Yorkshire HX1 3UZ England Coordinates: 53°43′14″N 1°52′28″W / 53.72049°N 1.87446°W / 53.72049; -1.87446
Website	Official website

Calderdale College is a further and higher education college based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.

The college is the largest provider of further education (post-16) courses and work-based learning (apprenticeships) and the sole provider of higher education awards in Calderdale, a Metropolitan Borough in West Yorkshire.

History

Calderdale College is descended from a number of educational institutions in Halifax, including the Halifax Mechanics Institute (founded 1825), the Halifax School of Art, Queens Road (founded 1859) and the Halifax Technical College (founded in 1893).

Classes in Halifax Technical College began in 1896 with one laboratory, a weaving shed and classrooms. There were 1000 students, 23 part-time teachers and one full-time teacher. The college offered courses in textiles, engineering, chemistry, commerce and ‘women’s work’.

Percival Whitley College (founded 1957) was incorporated into Calderdale College in 1988.

External links

Official website

Universities and colleges in Yorkshire and the Humber

Universities	BPP Bradford Huddersfield Hull Law Leeds Leeds Beckett Leeds Trinity Sheffield Sheffield Hallam York York St John

Further Education colleges	Askham Bryan Barnsley Bishop Burton Bradford Calderdale Craven Dearne Valley Doncaster East Riding Endeavour Grimsby Hull Kirklees Leeds Art Leeds Building Leeds City Leeds Music Northern North Lindsey Rotherham Selby Sheffield Shipley Wakefield York Yorkshire Coast

Sixth form colleges	Chapeltown Doncaster Collegiate Elliott Hudson Franklin Greenhead Huddersfield New John Leggott Longley Park Maltings NEW Notre Dame Scarborough Thomas Rotherham Wilberforce Wyke

Schools in Calderdale

Non-selective	Brighouse High School The Brooksbank School Calder High School The Halifax Academy Lightcliffe Academy Park Lane Learning Trust Rastrick High School Ryburn Valley High School Sowerby Bridge High School Todmorden High School Trinity Academy

Grammar	Crossley Heath School North Halifax Grammar School

Special	William Henry Smith School

Independent	Hipperholme Grammar School Rastrick Independent School Rishworth School

Further education	Calderdale College The Maltings College

Defunct	Heath Grammar School The Ridings School St Catherine's RC High School

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