Harrow College

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Established 1999 Principal & CEO Pat Carvalho DfE URN 131864 Tables Total enrollment 2,000 (2010) Gender Mixed-sex education		Type Further Education DfE number 310/8005 Phone +44 20 8909 6000 Founded 1999 Local authority London Borough of Harrow
Location Lowlands RoadHarrowMiddlesexHA1 3AQEngland Address Lowlands Rd, London, Harrow HA1 3AQ, UK Notable alumni Ronald Lacey, Rafi Pitts, Gary Northfield, John Kruse Similar Stan College, College of North West London, Barnet and Southgate College, West Thames College, South Thames College Profiles Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google+

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Harrow College is the largest college in the London Borough of Harrow. It opened in 1999 following a merger of two former local colleges, Greenhill College (located in the centre of Harrow Town) and Weald College neighbouring town Wealdstone.

More than 2,000 full-time and 7,000 part-time, students join Harrow College for sixth form and adult courses.

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Location

Teaching takes place at the Harrow on the Hill campus on Lowlands Road and at the Harrow Weald campus in Harrow Weald as well as two smaller, dedicated construction-focused units; Whitefriars Centre and Harrow Skills Centre.

In 2015, the College opened two new buildings: The Enterprise Centre at the Harrow on the Hill campus and Spring House for supported learning at the Harrow Weald campus.

Harrow College has been awarded a Centre of Excellence for the Hearing Impaired, which is the only centre of its kind in North West London. The college is also a member of the Westminster Centre of Excellence in Teacher Training (CETT).

It holds the Pre School Learning Alliance kite mark.

Curriculum

Harrow College provides academic and vocational courses for young people and a range of professional and non-professional programmes for adult students. The college is highly regarded for its ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) courses. The EFL programmes are accredited by the British Council. The Learning Links programme has set a standard in the community for providing courses for students with learning disabilities and difficulties.

Alumni

The list includes former students of Greenhill College and Weald College.

Jon Foo, actor and martial artist

Shami Chakrabarti, former director of Liberty

Tom Fletcher, guitarist in McFly

Richard Hounslow, British slalom canoeist

Matt Lucas, comedian

Faye McClelland, British triathlete

Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer

Master Shortie, rapper

Paul Staines, political blogger under the name Guido Fawkes

Jordanne Whiley, paralympian

Harrow Weald County Grammar School

Michael Annals, costume designer

Sir John Baker CBE, former Chief Executive from 1990-95 and Chairman from 1995-97 of National Power

Ken Follett, spy novel author

Robert Glenister, actor

Gareth Hadley, Chairman of the General Optical Council

Christopher Isham, theoretical physicist at Imperial College London, who investigates quantum gravity

Prof Anne Jones FRSA, Professor of Lifelong Learning from 1995-2001 at Brunel University

Prof Roger Kain CBE, Montefiore Professor of Geography at the School of Advanced Study (SAS)

Ronald Lacey, actor, who played Harris in Porridge

Prof David Pearce (economist), Professor of Economics from 1983-2004 at UCL

Merlyn Rees, Home Secretary from 1976-79 and Labour MP from 1962-83 for Leeds South and from 1983-92 for Morley and Leeds South (and later taught Economics at the school for eleven years throughout the 1950s)

Michael Rosen, author

Prof Anthony Thirlwall, Professor of Applied Economics from 1976-2004 at the University of Kent, known for Thirlwall's Law

Nigel Waymouth, designer