Barnsley College
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| Barnsley College | |
| Motto | We'll bring the best out of you |
| Type | Sixth form college |
| Headteacher | Paula Whittle MBA MA BEd |
| Location | Church Street Barnsley South Yorkshire England |
| Website | http://www.barnsley.ac.uk/ |
Barnsley College is a further education college just out of the town centre of Barnsley, England. It has several campuses: Eastgate House, the Falcon Centre, the SciTech Centre, Old Mill Lane Site, Construction Centre Site and the Honeywell Centre. The college provides A levels, vocational courses and higher education courses.
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[edit] Campus
[edit] Old Mill Lane
This is one of the biggest sites, housing most student services and a wide range of subjects.
[edit] Eastgate House
In this building the A Level subjects are taught, examples include English, Geography and Business.
[edit] The SciTech Centre
Opened by Patrick Stewart in November 2004, and houses Science, Maths and Computing subjects. A Levels are also taught in this building if they involve science, computing or maths. ICT shares rooms with computing.
[edit] Honeywell Centre
Has specialist facilities for Arts, Music and Music Technology, Sports and Physical Education and Public Services. Examinations are also held here.
[edit] Lifelong Learning Network
Barnsley College is a partner institution of Higher Futures, the Lifelong Learning Networks (LLN) for South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Sam Nixon was a catering student until he entered the Pop Idol TV competition in 2003. He is now a television presenter.
- Kate Rusby attended in the early 1990s. She is now a folk singer.
- Alex Turner and Matt Helders of the indie rock group Arctic Monkeys studied music there.
- Simon Hirst is now a radio presenter for Galaxy 105.
- Claire Gould studied journalism there in 1995, and went on to become Australia's top online journalist.
- Oliver Sykes, lead vocalist in the metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon.
