Students 9000 Phone +44 20 7613 9123 Founded 2006 | Website www.hackney.ac.uk Total enrollment 7,600 (2012) London borough London Borough of Hackney | |
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Location Hackney, London, United Kingdom Address Shoreditch Campus, Falkirk St, Hackney, London N1 6HQ, UK Similar Tower Hamlets College, City and Islington College, Greenwich Community College, The College of Haringey, Westminster Kingsway College Profiles | ||
Hackney Community College (formerly Hackney College) is a further education college in the London Borough of Hackney.
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The current college
HCC has over 9,000 students: 16- to 18-year-olds in the sixth form, adults who study full and part-time, and it trains hundreds of apprentices who work with local and national companies. It campus is in Falkirk Street, Shoreditch, backing onto Hoxton Street. When the campus opened in 1996, it was Britain's largest capital further education building project.
In August 2016, Hackney Community College merged with Tower Hamlets College to create a more responsive and financially robust larger organisation. Within the structure of the merged organisation, both colleges retain their names, campuses and courses.
It is home to the Tech City Apprenticeship, the London Technical Fashion Academy, the London City Hospitality Centre and its training restaurant, Open Kitchen.
HCC's SPACe (Sport and Performing Arts Centre) was funded by Sport England as a centre of excellence in cricket and basketball. SPACe was home to London United Basketball and is still the base for the Hackney Community College Basketball Academy, as well as academies in other sports. SPACe was used as a training camp for basketball during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The Hackney Community College campus is also home to a shared workspace for start-up edtech companies.
Its history
The college was originally named Hackney College when it was formed in 1974 by the amalgamation of Hackney and Stoke Newington College of Further Education with those sites of Poplar Technical College that had been established in Hackney. Initially run by Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) and, following that, by Hackney Council, when it was renamed. It is now an independent institution, mainly funded through public funds. For a few years it was known as The Community College Shoreditch, but has now reverted to the name Hackney Community College (dating from the process known as "incorporation" in 1993 when it was formed from the merger of Hackney College, Hackney 6th Form Centre and Hackney Adult Education Institute)
Previous institutions known as Hackney College
'Hackney College' has also been widely used (by Pevsner and others) to refer specifically to Brooke House, until September 2002 one of the Community College's sites. This has now become BSix Sixth Form College.
The modern version of the term should also be distinguished from previous Hackney Colleges:
Both of these merged in 1900, becoming the University of London's first Faculty of Theology. In 1924 this became, by Act of Parliament, a constituent college known as Hackney and New College, the two names by which its disparate buildings throughout north London were commonly known. In 1934 new premises were planned. In 1936, the name of the college was simplified to New College London, harking back to the Congregationalist merger of 1850.