Cumbernauld College

Cumbernauld College
Cumbernauld College

Main campus in Cumbernauld
Type Further education
Principal Martin McGuire
Admin. staff 415
Students 6607
Location Cumbernauld, Scotland
55°56.7120′N 3°59.3775′W / 55.9452°N 3.989625°W / 55.9452; -3.989625Coordinates: 55°56.7120′N 3°59.3775′W / 55.9452°N 3.989625°W / 55.9452; -3.989625
Former names Cumbernauld Technical College
Website http://www.cumbernauld.ac.uk

Cumbernauld College is a higher and further education college in central Scotland. Cumbernauld College serves the communities of both North Lanarkshire and East Dunbartonshire, and has campuses in both Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch, as well as further key outreach centres in Kilsyth, Airdrie, Wishaw, Coatbridge, Lennoxtown, Croy, Milngavie, Bishopbriggs and Moodiesburn.

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Qualifications

Courses are offered at all levels from leisure non-certificated courses, through introductory/access level, NQ/NC, HNC and HND, to degree level. Subjects taught include:

  • Access and Development
  • Audio and Media
  • Beauty Therapy and hairdressing
  • Business and Management
  • Care
  • Catering and Hospitality
  • Computing
  • Creative Arts
  • Electronic Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Motor Vehicle
  • Sports Development
  • Supported Programmes
  • Tourism and Leisure

Training Unit

The Training Unit delivers a range of government-funded programmes to enable individuals to enter into sustainable employment. These include:

  • Training for Work
  • Get Ready for Work
  • Skillseekers / Modern Apprentices
  • Support Employment

Campus

The main campus building was completed in 1978 as Cumbernauld Technical College, to designs by the Glasgow architectural practice Gillespie, Kidd & Coia.[1] The original building is category B listed.[2]

In August 2006, Cumbernauld College completed an extensive phased refurbishment and new build programme at the main campus. A window replacement scheme, renewal of lighting and heating systems, and internal space reconfiguration complement a new 2,250-square-metre (24,200 sq ft), three-story teaching block. Ground and first floor levels provide additional fully equipped teaching facilities and specialist rooms for health care, travel and tourism, and art. On the third floor the Business and Conference Centre offers the wider Business Community training and conference facilities. A new front entrance, reception and internal ‘street’ (495 square metres (5,330 sq ft)) connects all buildings and provides improved access to student services and support, learning centres, library facilities and social areas, as well as a dynamic space for exhibitions, promotion and student activity.

Within the funding package, Cumbernauld College also purchased a 970-square-metre (10,400 sq ft), modern, purpose-built canal side building in Kirkintilloch to develop activities and further education (FE) provision in East Dunbartonshire. The phase development programme commenced in November 2004 at a cost of £11.6 million, with SFC funding of £5.3 million and £2.8 million from the European Regional Development Fund.

Business and Conference Centre

Funded as part of the redevelopment programme, the Business and Conference Centre provides skills gap analysis, training needs analysis and bespoke training programmes for commercial clients. It includes meeting and conferencing facilities for 2 to 90.

Students Association

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