Edinburgh's Telford College in West Granton

Edinburgh College is a

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and

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institution with campuses in

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and Midlothian,

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. It serves the Edinburgh Region, Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian, and is the largest college in Scotland. It was formed on 1 October 2012 as part of the merger of Edinburgh's Jewel and Esk,

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, and Stevenson colleges. The college has four campuses, all of which were previously the campuses of the constituents of the merger: Jewel and Esk's College Milton Road (Jewel) Campus and Eskbank Campus (Now referred to as "Edinburgh College, Milton Road Campus" and "Edinburgh College, Midlothian Campus"); Edinburgh Telford College (Now referred to as Edinburgh College, Granton Campus); and Stevenson College Edinburgh (Now referred to as Edinburgh College, Sighthill Campus)

Formation

On 17 April 2012, Edinburgh's Jewel and Esk, Telford, and Stevenson colleges collectively submitted to the Scottish Government a business case for their merger into a single "Edinburgh" college. The case estimated that the merger would come at a cost of £14.7 million, of which £7.7 million would be provided by the

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. The case proposed job reductions across the periods 2012/13 to 2014/15, forecast to eventually provide savings of £9.47 million per year at a cost of 237 jobs. The jobs cut were 60% (49 jobs, £2.88 million) from managerial staff, 17.5% (96 jobs, £3.84 million) from teaching staff, and 17.5% (92 jobs, £2.75 million) from non-teaching staff. Severance costs as a result of job reductions were forecast at £10.47 million. The case predicted that the merged colleges would have deficits of £0.47 million, £1.5 million, and £3.74 million in periods 2011/12, 2012/13, and 2013/14, respectively, before having a surplus of £0.44 million per period in the following three periods from 2014/15 to 2016/17. The merger was approved by the Scottish Ministers, and came into force on 1 October 2012. The predicted income for period 2014/15 was not attained, and Edinburgh College reported a deficit of £5.14 million for that period. The income for 2016/17 was £3.0 million (including an actuarial gain on pension of £5.5 million).

Funding

Edinburgh College is a primarily publicly funded college. Of the college's £91 million income for the period 2014/15, £68.35 million (75.1%) came from Scottish Funding Council (SFC) grants, £14.52 million came from tuition fees, and the remainder came from a mixture of contracts, endowments, and national and EU grants. In 2010, the

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(ONS) reclassified, effective 1 April 2014, Colleges of Further Education in Scotland as central government entities, making them

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. This change meant that the SFC could

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funds and, as a result, that colleges would be unable to hold large cash reserves. Following a Holyrood report placing Edinburgh College behind the City of Glasgow College in reforms, college principal Annette Bruton expressed discontent with this consequence of reclassification. Jewel and Esk Valley College

Edinburgh College is responsible for the funding of its students' association, ECSA. In 2014, the college's Board of Management provided ECSA with funds of £274,677.

Curriculum Centres

Each of the courses offered by Edinburgh College falls under the remit of one of five curriculum centres. The centres are typically based at one to three of the college's campuses, and provide course-specific facilities. Courses are offered at SCQF levels 1 (National 1, formerly Access 1, units for early

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) through 11 ( under- and

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education and professional

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s).

Creative Industries

The ''Creative Industries'' centre is based at the Milton Road and Sighthill campuses. The centre's facilities include film and music studios and

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. The centre partners with Creative Exchange Leith, an organisation providing incubation and office space rental, and funds the use of the Exchange's facilities by six student

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s each year. The Creative Industries centre offers courses in art and design (

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, interior, and

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), the

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broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting beg ...

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employe ...

sound engineering An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproductio ...

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and software development, as well as various vendor qualifications such as

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CCNA and CompTIA A+ certifications.

Engineering+

The ''Engineering+'' centre is based at the college's Midlothian campus in Eskbank, near Dalkeith. The centre has a fleet of electric vehicles and charging points for those vehicles. Its facilities include various workshops and laboratories, and a field of 2,500 solar panels built by SSE which generates energy for the campus and which is used as an instructional aid. The centre also partners with MacTaggart Scott, a civil and defence engineering company, to provide training using an oil platform simulator and PLC laboratory. The centre offers introductory engineering courses,

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courses, vehicle maintenance courses, as well as courses for qualifications in

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and

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, and automotive engineering, plus courses in

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, chemistry,

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, and mathematics, a BESA-designed HVAC course, and various

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qualifications.

Health, Wellbeing and Social Sciences

The centre for ''Health, Wellbeing and Social Sciences'' is based at the Milton Road and Sighthill campuses. The Milton Road campus is equipped with a

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and spa (called "the Club"), and the Sighthill campus has a gym and sports centre. The centre provides various courses for improving the fitness and health of the participants, as well as courses for qualifications in

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, personal training,

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, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary nursing, and

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Institute of Construction and Building Crafts

The ''Institute of Construction and Building Crafts'' provides instruction in various

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and trade skills. The institute is partnered with various companies and

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to provide apprenticeship training, including the

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; the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbers' Association; and Building Engineering Services Training, a subsidiary of BESA. The institute's facilities include the ''Immersive and Controlled Training Environment'' (ICE), a

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construction site simulator jointly developed by the college and Heriot-Watt University. The institute is based at the college's Granton campus. The institute's courses include carpentry,

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, roofing, stonemasonry,

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, building surveying, as well as various industry accreditations including City and Guilds railway engineering; Gas Safe Register, Gas Safe CCN1 (Core Domestic Natural Gas Safety), CKR1 (Domestic Cooking Appliances), HTR1 (Heating Appliances), and MET1 (Gas Meter Safety Assessment) qualifications; CENWAT (Central Heating and Hot Water) installation and maintenance training; CITB Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) training; various International Powered Access Federation qualifications; National Plant Operators Registration Scheme (NPORS) qualifications; and Prefabricated Access Suppliers' and Manufacturers' Association (PASMA) qualifications. In the United Kingdom, the term "institute" is protected and cannot be used without the approval of the Secretary of State.

Hospitality, Travel and Tourism

The ''Hospitality, Travel and Tourism'' centre is based at the college's Milton Road and Granton campuses. It is part of the South East Scotland Academies Partnership's (SESAP) Hospitality and Tourism Academy, along with Queen Margaret University, West Lothian College, and Borders College. The centre's facilities include two training restaurants, the EH postcode area, EH15 at Milton Road and the Apprentice at Granton, three training salons, two at Granton and one at Milton Road, and an aircraft cabin simulator. One of the salons is a component of a partnership with beauty product companies Elemis and Wella. Students on the courses offered by the centre work in the restaurants and salons as part of their study. The centre's courses include barbering and hairdressing, beauty therapy, cheffing, events management, events and retail management, various language courses including Scots Gaelic, Gaelic and Gaelic history, French language, French, German language, German, Italian language, Italian, and Spanish language, Spanish, plus industry qualifications including Chartered Institute of Linguists public service language interpretation, UK food hygiene certifications, and Prince's Trust introductory cookery courses.

Honours

Queen's Park Shield *Champions (1): 2019

References

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