Bradford Colege - Bradford, UK
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N 53° 47.492 W 001° 45.647
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A college very much in the modern world that is more than 175 years old and was founded in 1832. It started life as the Bradford Mechanics Institute founded by Bradford workers.
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Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/10/2011
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Bradford College is a large further and higher education college with approximately 25000 students. The college offers a range of part time and full time from introductory courses to postgraduate level
Most of the college courses are validated by Leeds Metropolitan University. Bradford College is itself hoping to become a university, although there already is a separate Bradford University.
In the Industrial Revolution Bradford was a booming industrial mill town specialising in woollen fabrics. Indeed it became known as the wool capital of the world.
As time moved on other European countries began to compete with Bradford and its position as the world leader began to wane. So a new type of technical college was opened in 1882 in an attempt to improve the technical training of Bradford’s workforce. It was opened to great excitement by the Prince and Princess of Wales.
A 100 years later Bradford joined together with Ilkley College and became Bradford and Ilkley Community College. The satellite Ilkley campus was closed in 1999 and soon after the name changed to Bradford College.
In September 2008 a new purpose built sports centre with attached teaching facilities was opened.
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