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Bury College
Address
Market Street Bury , Greater Manchester , BL9 0BG England
Coordinates	53°35′25″N2°17′46″W / 53.590214°N 2.296164°W /53.590214; -2.296164
Information
Type	Further Education College
Established	1987
Local authority	Bury
Department for Education URN	130498Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Charlie Deane
Gender	Coeducational
Age	14 (due to GCSE courses offered)+
Enrolment	5,948 (2017)[1]
Website	www.burycollege.ac.uk

Bury College is afurther education college located within the Borough ofBury, in Greater Manchester, England. The college offersA-Levels,BTECs and diplomas.

Bury College is a further education college providing qualifications for school leavers pursuing A Levels, vocational qualifications and apprenticeships. It also provides courses for adults, including university qualifications run in partnership with theUniversity of Bolton.

Bury College began as Bury Technical College. From May 1940 to May 1946, Bury Technical College was occupied by the Royal Military College of Science (Fire Control Wing) to provide specialist courses in the use of fire control instruments during the war. Following Local Government reorganisation in 1974, the college merged with Radcliffe Technical College to form the Bury Metropolitan College of Further Education.

Bury College became atertiary college on 1 September 1987, as a result of Bury Council's decision to develop a tertiary provision system for Bury. The college was formed by the merger of the then Bury College of Further Education premises in Bury and Radcliffe with Peel Sixth Form College, Stand Sixth Form College, and a number ofYouth Training Scheme units located in various parts of the borough.

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• Millennium Centre - studios, laboratories, IT suites, Learning Resource Centres and classrooms.
• Beacon Centre - facilities for Performance Arts, Humanities, Languages, Health and Social Care, Childcare and Uniformed Services. A theatre, dance and rehearsal studios, together with a recording studio, language laboratory and coffee bar are situated here.
• Woodbury Centre - facilities for hair, beauty and complementary therapy salons, catering facilities and art studios.
• Venture Centre - In 2012 a development on the Woodbury site opened providing a learning resource centre, courtyard, IT facilities and classrooms.
• Prospects Centre - this is the electrical engineering centre of the college. It has specialist laboratories, workshops and IT suites for technology-based subjects.
• The Innovation Centre - for students studying Engineering and Technology courses, including the Diploma in Engineering. The building has an Engineering Workshop, IT suites, Computer-Aided Design Studio and Classrooms with information and communications technologies.
• The Aspire Centre - sports facilities for students, including exercise and fitness studios with sprung floors. In addition, the building houses the college's assessment centre for examinations and on-line testing.
• The Construction Skills Centre - is equipped with tools, equipment and machinery. It supports the college's existing applied engineering and technology centres.
• Enterprise Centre - classrooms and IT facilities.
• Bury College Nursery - a fifty-place nursery which opened in September 2004 and provides places for students with young children, and the public.

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• Tony Binns, Ron Lister Professor of Geography
• Lol Creme, musician
• Lawrence Demmy, 1950sice-dancer
• John Heilpern, drama critic
• Jack Howlett, computer scientist and director from 1961 to 1975 of theAtlas Computer Laboratory (produced many computer software innovations) (1923–30)
• Howard Jacobson, author (1953–60)
• Martin Kelner, radio broadcaster (1960–67)
• Henry Livings, playwright (1941–48)
• Philip Lowrie, playsDennis Tanner inCoronation Street
• Norman McVicker,Leicestershire andWarwickshire cricketer
• Al Read, radio comedian
• Mark E. Smith, singer
• John Spencer, snooker player
• Julie Stevens, actress (1948–53)
• Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg, Professor of Medicine from 1973 to 1997 at theUniversity of Manchester (1945–52)

• Ivan Lewis, Labour, later Independent, MP from 1997 to 2019 forBury South and Cabinet Minister during the Blair and Brown administrations.
• Jonathan Ashworth, Labour MP and Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, 2021–present
• Warren Hegg, former Lancashire and England cricketer
• Guy Garvey, lead singer of rock bandElbow

• Bury College

• Education in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury
• Further education colleges in Greater Manchester
• Learning and Skills Beacons
• Educational institutions established in 1987
• 1987 establishments in England

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