Established 1999 Ofsted Reports Phone +44 1904 770200 Founded 1999 | DfE URN 130594 Tables Gender Mixed Principal Dr. Alison Birkinshaw | |
Type further education/higher education college Location Sim Balk Lane, Bishopthorpe
York
North Yorkshire
YO23 2BB
England Address Sim Balk Ln, Bishopthorpe, York YO23 2BB, UK Students 3,500 Full-time; 9,000 Part-time Undergraduate tuition and fees 6,000 GBP (2012), International tuition: 6,000 GBP (2012) Similar University of York, Askham Bryan College, York College - City Univ, Selby College, Craven College Profiles | ||
York College is a further and higher education college in York, England. It offers A-levels, AVCE, HND and NVQ degrees. It is an associate college of the University of York.
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History
The York Mechanics' Institute was founded in 1827. It taught art and science classes and had, by 1877, a library which contained over 10,000 volumes. In 1891 a Technical School was founded by the City of York Council and this took over teaching from the Mechanics' Institute which was dissolved in 1892 with its library and many of the books being handed over to the council.
The college was established in its present form in 1999 by a merger of York Sixth Form College and York College of Further and Higher Education, which had been known as York College of Arts and Technology. A major £60 million redevelopment of the former Sixth Form College site began in 2005, and the present campus opened in September 2007. The new buildings replaced what had been Ashfield Secondary Modern School before the Sixth Form opened on the site in 1985. During the redevelopment all the students were based on the Further and Higher Education site (Tadcaster Road) which was afterwards demolished to make way for housing.
Closure of nursery
After the death of an unsupervised child in the college's nursery in September 2012, the permanent closure of the nursery was announced in a statement by principal Alison Birkinshaw in October 2012, confirmed as 'final' in November of the same year. In February 2014, the college was convicted of failing to ensure children's safety, and faced a fine of £175,000. In the same case, a staff member present at the time of the incident was cleared of manslaughter by gross negligence in a unanimous jury decision. The operation of the nursery was described as a 'systemic failure'.