Kirklees College is a further education college with two main centres in the towns of

Dewsbury Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Hudder ...

and

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into t ...

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exis ...

, England.

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. Th
Batley School of Art
moved to the Wheelwright Grammar School site on Birkdale Road, This campus was home to all of the art courses, but and also home to sports and fitness courses, due to the large playing field on its grounds. The centre operated an award-winning Photographic course – BA Hons Contemporary Photographic Arts, a full-time three year honours degree from the

University of Huddersfield , mottoeng = Thus not for you alone , established = 1825 – Huddersfield Science and Mechanics' Institute1992 – university status , type = Public , endowment = £2.47 million (2015) , chancellor = George W. Buckley , vice_chancell ...

. The course had a national reputation and has approval from the 'British Institute of Professional Photographers', until it closed in 2018 The main campus was on Halifax Road, Dewsbury, closed October 2020.

Sites

Dewsbury

The Dewsbury centre has two campuses in and around Dewsbury: * Springfield Sixth Form College is on Bradford Road, opened 2018 *Pioneer House Higher Skills Centre, opened November 2020 Former centres were previously known as Deswbury and Batley Technical and Art College (DABTAC)

Huddersfield

The main site is a new campus off Manchester Road, adjacent to the River Colne, just outside the Huddersfield town centre, at a cost of £74 million, in 2013 it replaced the New North Road Campus . There are 4 additional satellite sites in Huddersfield: Engineering and adjacent Process Manufacturing Centres, provides full and part time courses in engineering related fields including manufacturing, welding and motor vehicle. The Brunel Construction Centre, located just off the A62, which offers courses in construction related fields including plumbing, bricklaying, plastering, electrical installation and plumbing. The college's Taylor Hill Centre, on Close Hill Road in the Huddersfield suburb of Taylor Hill, provides full-time courses relating to animal care, land-based studies, conservation and countryside management.

Accreditation

The Leeds Metropolitan University validated 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 The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It of ...

, won the

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graduate of the year award and many other national and international prizes. The course exhibited 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”.

Alumni

Batley School of Art

* Tula Lotay, comic book artist * Victoria O'Keefe (1969–1990), stage and film actor best known for playing nuclear war survivor Jane Beckett in made-for-TV film ''

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'' (1984) *

Andi Watson Andrew Watson (born 1969) is a British cartoonist and illustrator best known for the graphic novels ''Breakfast After Noon'', ''Slow News Day'' and his series ''Skeleton Key'' and ''Love Fights'', published by Oni Press and Slave Labor Graphics. ...

, cartoonist

Huddersfield Technical College

* Sir David Brown, engineer and entrepreneur * Anthony Flinn, chef *

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, musician * Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes, Labour MP from 1945–64 for

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* Marcel van Cleemput, toy designer * Cousin Silas, musician * Paul Scriven, Liberal Democrat peer

Dewsbury College

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(Baroness Boothroyd), life peer (Crossbench) in the

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2001-present, Speaker of the House of Commons 1992-2000, Labour Party MP from 1973–74 for

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and from 1974–2000 for

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* Walter Harrison, Labour MP from 1964–87 for

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* Keith Hellawell, Chief Constable from 1993–98 of

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and from 1990–3 of

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* Dean Hoyle, former owner of Card Factory and the ex-chairman and owner of

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side

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* Mick Sullivan, rugby league player for Huddersfield, Wigan and St. Helens. Double world cup winner with Great Britain.

Wheelwright Grammar School for Boys

* Richard Alexander, Conservative MP from 1979–97 for Newark * John Dunning, director from 1955–72 of the

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at Westcott, Buckinghamshire * Robin Esser, editor (1986–89) of the ''

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'' * William George Fearnsides, Sorby Professor of Geology from 1913–45 at the

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* Philip Fothergill, English woollen manufacturer and

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politician *

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, mathematician * Sir

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, Conservative MP from 1970–97 for Shipley * Larry Hirst, chairman since 2008 of IBN Europe, Middle East and Africa *

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, worked with

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to produce the

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known as ''Baby'' in 1946, one of the first computers, and professor of computer science from 1964–81 at the

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, cricketer * Donald Sadler, president from 1967–9 of the

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* William Senior, Chief Dental Officer from 1947–61 * Percy Walker, aeronautical engineer who helped design the

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, and later was largely responsible at the

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for discovering that

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caused the first

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airliners to crash * Eddie Waring, rugby league commentator

References

External links

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