South Lanarkshire College is a
further education
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institution in
South Lanarkshire
gd, Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas
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Scotland
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. Its campus is located in
East Kilbride
East Kilbride (; gd, Cille Bhrìghde an Ear ) is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. It was also designated Scotland's first new town on 6 May 1947. The area lies on a rais ...
, with new buildings completed in 2008 at a site between the town centre and the
Kelvin
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industrial area.
The college was founded in 1948 as a building school in
Cambuslang
Cambuslang ( sco, Cammuslang, from gd, Camas Lang) is a town on the south-eastern outskirts of Greater Glasgow, Scotland. With approximately 30,000 residents, it is the 27th largest town in Scotland by population, although, never having had a ...
and had several sites for its various departments over its history, including at
Blantyre
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,
Motherwell
Motherwell ( sco, Mitherwall, gd, Tobar na Màthar) is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Historically in the parish of Dalziel and part of Lanarks ...
,
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
* Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname
** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland
** Lord Hamilt ...
and
Wishaw
Wishaw ( sco, Wishae or Wisha ; gd, Camas Neachdain) is a large town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the edge of the Clyde Valley, south-east of Glasgow city centre. The Burgh of Wishaw was formed in 1855 within Lanarkshire. it formed ...
.
[ 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.
In 2019, the college was chosen as the site for a monument to the workers at the nearby, recently closed ]Rolls-Royce
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* Rolls-Royce Limited, a British manufacturer of cars and later aero engines, founded in 1906, now defunct
Automobiles
* Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, the current car manufacturing company incorporated in ...
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
''Nae Pasaran'' is a 2018 documentary directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra about a group of workers at a Rolls-Royce factory in East Kilbride, Scotland, who refused to work on Chilean Air Force parts from 1974-78 due to the atrocities carried out ...
); the monument itself is one of the engines sent to the factory which was never used again.‘Permanent tribute’ Nae Pasaran: Jet engine monument to Pinochet boycotters unveiled
Unite Live, 25 October 2019
References
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South Lanarkshire College
Educational institutions established in 1948
Further education colleges in Scotland
Education in South Lanarkshire
1948 establishments in Scotland
Buildings and structures in East Kilbride
School buildings completed in 2008
Buildings and structures in Cambuslang
Buildings and structures in South Lanarkshire
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