Warley College, originally called Warley College of Technology, was a college of
further and
higher education which served the vicinity of
Oldbury in the
West Midlands of England. It was formed in 1968 by the amalgamation of
Oldbury College of Further Education Oldbury may refer to:
People
*Oldbury (surname)
Places
*Oldbury, Shropshire, a village near Bridgnorth, England
*Oldbury-on-Severn, a village in Gloucestershire, England
**Oldbury nuclear power station, under decommissioning since 2012
*Oldbury-on ...
and
Chance Technical College in
Smethwick
Smethwick () is an industrial town in Sandwell, West Midlands, England. It lies west of Birmingham city centre. Historically it was in Staffordshire.
In 2019, the ward of Smethwick had an estimated population of 15,246, while the wider bu ...
Education in Smethwick
/ref> and named in accordance with the recently created County Borough of Warley. It was located on the main Wolverhampton – Birmingham road. But now has moved both sites to pound road, now named as 'Oldbury Academy'
Warley College ceased to exist after July 1986, when it merged with West Bromwich College
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...
to form Sandwell College – named in accordance with the new metropolitan borough which had been formed 12 years earlier in a merger between the county boroughs of West Bromwich and Warley.
Footnotes
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Education in Sandwell
Further education colleges in the West Midlands (county)
Educational institutions established in 1968