Dewsbury College

Dewsbury College

Dewsbury College is a further education college located in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. The College offers A-level Courses, as well as NVQs, Apprenticeship courses, BTEC First Diplomas and National Certificates and Entry Level and Access to Higher Education courses.

Before her elevation to the House of Lords, Ann Taylor criticised the town's lack of a high-quality further education college for 16-19 year olds, arguing that most school leavers must fight for a place at St John Fisher Catholic sixth form or Heckmondwike Grammar sixth form.Fact|date=February 2007Since the first of August 2008 Dewsbury College no longer exists it merged under a schedule B type with Huddersfield technical college to become Kirklees College.The Dewsbury centre has three campuses in and around Dewsbury. Wheelwright Campus belongs to and is part of Dewsbury College but is often referred to as "The Batley School of Art and Design". This campus is on Halifax Road into Dewsbury and is about 200 yards from the main site. Wheelwright Campus is home to all of the Art courses but is also home to sports and fitness courses, due to the large playing field on its grounds.

Dewsbury college operates an award winning Photographic course - BA Hons Contemporary Photographic Arts - A full time three year honours degree from the University of Huddersfield. The course has a national reputation and has approval from the British Institute of Professional Photographers.The University of Huddersfield also validates the School of Art and Designs' flagship course B.A.Hons"Fine Art for Design" an internationaly renowned and award winning course.Since its' creation in 1998 by Eve Jones and Richard Gray students have gone on to study at The Royal college of Art,won the Unilever graduate of the year award and many other national and international prizes.The course exhibits in London every year at Free Range at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick lane.

External links

* [http://www.dewsbury.ac.uk/ Dewsbury College] – official website
* [http://www.batleyanddewsbury.co.uk/directory/listings/dewsbury_college/ Map showing Dewsbury College]


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