John Ruskin College
 | |
| Motto | '...your career starts here' |
|---|---|
| Established | 1920 |
| Type | Further education |
| Headteacher | Mohammed Ramzan |
| Location |
Selsdon Park Road (A2022) South Croydon Greater London CR2 8JJ United Kingdom Coordinates: 51°21′04″N 0°02′35″W / 51.351°N 0.043°W |
| Local authority | Croydon |
| DfE number | 306/8601 |
| DfE URN | 130434 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 14–19+ |
| Website |
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John Ruskin College is a sixth form college situated in Addington Village, London, on the A2022 (Selsdon Park Road), close to the A212 roundabout. The college is accessible by tram via Gravel Hill tram stop.
Courses
A range of BTEC and NVQ Diplomas are offered in the following subject areas:
- Business, Legal and Financial Services (Business and Law, Business and Finance)
- Creative Industries and Technology (Creative Media Production, IT, Graphic Design and Photography)
- ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
- Hair & Beauty and Spa Therapies
- Health, Care and Early Years
- Sports and Science (including HNC in Sports Therapy)
History
Early years
John Ruskin College was a former school in the London Borough of Croydon, which started life in 1920 as the John Ruskin Boys' Central School. Its location was Scarbrook Road, Croydon. Named after John Ruskin, it opened on 12 January 1920. The Lady Edridge School, its sister school for girls (later to become a grammar school in 1951) opened the same day. Lady Edridge was wife of a Mayor of Croydon and the first "Lady Freeman" of the Borough. It closed in 1980 and was demolished.
Grammar school
In 1935 the school moved to Tamworth Road, and in April 1945 it was granted grammar school status as the John Ruskin Grammar School for Boys (JRGS). It had been previously the John Ruskin Selective Central School. It moved to Upper Shirley Road, Shirley, in 1955, and was retitled the John Ruskin High School in 1971 before being demolished in 1991. The Upper Shirley Road site surrounded the Shirley Windmill, a 19th-century tower mill.[1] The upper forms transferred to Selsdon to form the present John Ruskin College, utilising the premises previously known as John Newnham Secondary Selective School, named after a 20th-century town clerk of the old County Borough of Croydon.
See also
The college should not be confused with John Ruskin Primary School,[2] which is in Southwark, nor the John Ruskin School Technology College in Cumbria, nor Ruskin College, Oxford.
Alumni and faculty
- The author and journalist Malcolm Muggeridge briefly taught at the school several times while a student, where his father, Henry Muggeridge, was Chairman of the Governors
- Feroz Abbasi, a former detainee at Camp X-Ray arrested in Afghanistan, is a former student of the college
- John Rowlands, an economics teacher who retired in 2009, is to date the longest serving member of staff with 43 years of teaching at the college and received an MBE for his services to education in 2009[3][4]
- Les Nemes, bassist, who later formed Haircut One Hundred with Nick Heyward
John Ruskin Grammar School
- Harold Bailey, Chairman from 2000–02 of Associated British Foods
- Sir Frank Barlow CBE, Secretary from 1959–79 of the Parliamentary Labour Party
- Joseph Barnes, Chairman from 1994–98 of Baxters
- Francis Feates CB, Professor of Environmental Engineering from 1991–95 at UMIST , Director from 1989–91 of the HM Inspectorate of Pollution
- Mick Ford, screenwriter and actor, later married the actress Rudi Davies (daughter of Dame Beryl Bainbridge); he played Hamlet in an acclaimed school production; he was also a member of the National Youth Theatre
- Roy Hodgson, former England football manager until 2016, former manager of Inter Milan, Fulham, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion
- Bob Houghton, football manager
- Steve Kember, footballer with Crystal Palace
- Air Vice-Marshal Richard Lacey CBE, Station Commander from 1997–99 of RAF Benson, Commander from 2003-05 of the Military of the Falkland Islands
- Simon Laffin, Chairman of flybe
- Lennie Lawrence, football manager
- Professor Donald Leach CBE, Professor of Maths of Computing and Principal from 1985–96 of Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh [5]
- Ralph McTell, singer-songwriter, wrote "Streets of London"
- Sir Bob Phillis, Chief Executive from 1997–2006 of the Guardian Media Group, and since 2004 of All3Media, and from 1994–97 of BBC Worldwide, and from 1991–93 of ITN
- Prof Terence Rabbitts FRS FMedSci, Professor of Molecular Biology, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
- Jamie Reid, artist who designed the Sex Pistols' album cover for Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, and most of their singles including "God Save the Queen"
- Stuart Smith OBE, Director from 2006-09 of the Lawn Tennis Association
References
- ↑ "The history of Shirley Windmill". Friends of Shirley Windmill. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
- ↑ John Ruskin Primary School, Axcis Education Recruitment
- ↑ Teacher nominated by students joins Status Quo rocker on Croydon's New Year's Honours list Croydon Guardian, 31 December 2009
- ↑ "Anne Smith (JRHS teacher/principal (1970-99) celebrates John Rowlands' career". JRGS Alumni Society. Mel Lambert. 15 September 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ↑ Professor Donald Leach Scotsman.com, 3 March 2009
External links
- John Ruskin College
- Establishment: John Ruskin College EduBase
- John Ruskin Grammar School - Memories of the former school The Terry Family
- History of the former school JRGS Alumni Society
