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Southern Regional College

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Established
  
2007

Founded
  
2007

Academic staff
  
900

Students
  
32,000

Phone
  
+44 300 123 1223

Total enrollment
  
36,417 (2010)

Location
  
Southern, Northern Ireland

Address
  
Lonsdale Building, Armagh BT61 7HN, UK

Similar
  
Northern Regional College, South West College, Belfast Metropolitan College, North West Regional College, Ulster University

Profiles

Southern Regional College (SRC) is a further and higher education college in the southern area of Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom.

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The Southern Regional College was formed on 1 August 2007 when three further education colleges merged to become the SRC. The new SRC comprises the former FE colleges at Armagh, Newry and Upper Bann. There are a total of six campuses across the geographical region and the college incorporates two council districts.

Southern Regional College is the largest further and higher education college in Northern Ireland outside Belfast.

At further education level, the college offers Level 2 traineeships, Apprenticeships, Extended Diplomas and A-levels. Full-time and part-time courses are available. SRC also offers apprenticeship training programmes.

SRC currently caters for approximately 32,000 students each year and has in excess of 900 members of staff.

Campuses

The college's main campuses locations are:

  • Armagh (Lonsdale, Lisnally Lane, Hamiltonsbawn Road Industrial Estate)
  • Banbridge
  • Kilkeel
  • Lurgan
  • Newry (Patrick Street East, Patrick Street West, Greenbank, Model)
  • Portadown.
  • Courses, students and faculty

    The college offers a wide range of courses: in excess of 100 courses for full-time further education; in excess of 80 courses on a full-time and part-time higher education capacity and in excess of 1320 courses (not counting those courses offered in the community) on a part-time vocational & recreational basis.

    References

    Southern Regional College Wikipedia