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The City of Liverpool College is a further education and higher education college in Liverpool, England. The college is located over several sites across the Knowledge Quarter – a district in the Liverpool city centre. Community-based provision has been disestablished in response to reduction in funding provision by central government.
History Origins. Founded as a small mechanics institution (Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts) in 1823, the institution grew over the centuries by converging and amalgamating with different colleges, including the F.L. Calder School of Domestic Science, the City of Liverpool C.F. Mott Training College, before eventually becoming Liverpool Polytechnic in 1970.
Liverpool College was the first of many public schools founded in the Victorian Era. The foundation stone of the original building was laid on 22 October 1840 by Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby K.G. (then styled the Rt. Hon. Lord Stanley MP), the first patron of the college. A group of Christian Liverpool citizens, many of whose names ...
The "Knowledge Quarter" is an area of Liverpool city centre covering 450 acres, incorporating the vicinity around London Road, Islington, the so called 'Fabric District', Paddington Village and part of Canning. The Knowledge Quarter is one of the largest campuses in the UK for academics, clinicians and scientists and contains a concentration of ...
The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL) is a public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded as a college in 1881, it gained its Royal Charter in 1903 with the ability to award degrees, and is also known to be one of the six 'red brick' civic universities, the first to be referred to as The Original Red Brick. It comprises three ...
The Liverpool Cityscape 'The Liverpool Cityscape', Ben Johnson, 2008, Acrylic on Canvas, 244 x 488cm. The Liverpool Cityscape comprises 170 hectares of the city, a near bird’s-eye perspective. It encompasses several thousand individual buildings and took Johnson and up to 11 assistants 24,000 person hours to complete it.
Wally Brown, CBE DL was Principal of Liverpool Community College from its creation in 1992 until his retirement in 2008. [1] [2] [3] Born in Toxteth, Liverpool, Brown was previously Head of Community Education in Lambeth, and an adult education manager in Manchester . At the time of the Toxteth riots, in 1981, Brown was living locally, was ...
The Liverpool Blue Coat School is a grammar school in Liverpool, England. It was founded in 1708 by Bryan Blundell and the Reverend Robert Styth as the Liverpool Blue Coat Hospital and was for many years a boys' boarding school before restoring in 2002 its original policy of accepting boys and girls.