The City of Leicester College (TCOLC) is a

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and

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located in

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, England. It has around 2,000 pupils and specialises in business and enterprise.

Description

City of Leicester College is in the east of Leicester on Downing Drive, off Spencefield Lane (B667). The college provides education for ages between 11-19 for different levels from GCSEs to BTECs as well as a sixth-form college. It offers a wide variety of courses but specialises in Business. It is not to be confused with the former City of Leicester College of Education in

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, which was taken over by

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and then bulldozed in 2006. As of 2020 the head teacher is Ken Vernon.

History

The school was founded in 1920 as the City Boys' School, on East Bond Street. In 1928 it moved to Humberstone Gate, to the former buildings of the Wyggeston Hospital Girls' School, which moved to a site in Regent Road which is now the

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sixth form. After 1944 the City Boys' School became City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School. In 1966 it moved to the Wyvern building on Downing Drive. The Humberstone Gate building, built in 1878, was used for a few years by Charles Keene College (subsequently merged with Southfields College to form

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) and is now the Leicester headquarters of

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. It became known as the City of Leicester School when it became a mixed comprehensive in 1976. It merged with the Spencefield School in 1985. The Spencefield building on Downing Drive became the lower school which is now the Gill building, named after former headmaster Mr. Gill. It gained

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status as a

Business and Enterprise College Business and Enterprise Colleges (BECs) were introduced in 2002 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in England. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields. Schools that successfully applied to the Specialist Sch ...

in September 2003, and the Business and Enterprise Centre (BEC) was created at the Wyvern Building. Previously a community school administered by

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, in June 2023 The City of Leicester College converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by the Aspire Learning Partnership.

Notable former pupils

City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School: * Stephen Buckley, painter, professor of fine art from 1994-2009 at the

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, journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author * Sir George Deacon, Oceanography, oceanographer and president of the Royal Institute of Navigation from 1961–64 * Paul Dempsey (presenter), sports broadcaster for Setanta Sports * J. F. C. Harrison, professor of history from 1970-82 at the University of Sussex * Keith Hill (politician), Keith Hill, Labour MP for Streatham (UK Parliament constituency), Streatham * Harry Humphries, adjutant of No. 617 Squadron RAF, 617 Squadron during the Operation Chastise, Dambusters raid and the rest of the war * Michael Kitchen, actor * Gary Lineker, retired footballer and current pundit and presenter of ''Match of the Day'', and former captain of Leicestershire Schools cricket team * Conrad Mainwaring, competed in the Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles, 110 metres hurdles at the 1976 Olympics * Joe Melia, actor * David Needham, defender for Notts County F.C., Notts County * Roger Sims, Sir Roger Sims, Conservative MP for Chislehurst (UK Parliament constituency), Chislehurst from 1974–97 * Trafford Smith, List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Myanmar, Ambassador to Burma from 1967–70 City of Leicester School: * Emile Heskey, footballer * Gareth Davies, Comptroller and Auditor General (United Kingdom), Comptroller and Auditor General at the National Audit Office (United Kingdom), UK National Audit Office City of Leicester College: * Layton Ndukwu, semi-professional footballer for Coalville Town FC

References

External links

School website

EduBase

Wyvernians
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