This article is about the further education college. For the private girls' school and its predecessor, a Victorian boy's school, seeHarrogate Ladies' College.
Buildings of the college
Harrogate College, formerly known asHarrogate College of Further Education and laterHarrogate College of Arts and Technology, is afurther education college inHarrogate,North Yorkshire, England. It offers several levels of qualifications, including further and higher education courses. Since August 2019 it is a member of theLuminate Education Group.
The college was known as Harrogate College of Further Education and later Harrogate College of Arts and Technology prior to 1 September 1994, when the name was shortened to Harrogate College.[3]
Harrogate College relocated in 1985 to Hornbeam Park, after the older Bower Road location of the college in Harrogate closed.[2] The college is on the former HarrogateICI Fibres site in four buildings. The college merged withLeeds Metropolitan University in August 1998 and was classified as auniversity; the Harrogate Collegestatutory corporation was dissolved on 1 August 1998.[3]
On 1 August 2008 management of the college was transferred toHull College.[2]
By 2016 it had 3,000 full- and part-time students, including young people over 16, as well as adults and apprentices.[2]
On 1 August 2019 it transferred from Hull College Group toLuminate Education Group (formerly Leeds City College Group),[4] with Danny Wild as principal.[2] As of February 2024[update] it is still a member of this group.[5]
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