NEXT Education Copenhagen former Copenhagen Technical College ( Danish: NEXT Uddannelse København or just NEXT, former Københavns Tekniske Skole, KTS) is a school of

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. The school offers educational programmes within the technical sciences on a secondary level to post-primary youth, Higher Technical Examination Programme (HTX), and supplementary courses for adults seeking to maintain qualifications (AMU). It is an independent self-owning institution under the Danish state, managed by a board composed of members from the business community in conjunction with a rector that oversees day-to-day operations. It occupies nine locations in the Greater Copenhagen area with the headquarters being located in

Valby Valby () is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark. It is in the southwestern corner of Copenhagen Municipality, and has a mixture of different types of housing. This includes apartment blocks, terraced housing, area ...

History

The college was founded under the name Det Tekniske Institut (The Technical Institute) at the initiative of the

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Lasenius Kramp. The school was situated in Læderstræde (No. 26) and run by the newly founded Technical Society (Danish: Det Tekniske Selskab). It was supported by the

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, which Kramp had co-founded a few years prior, various foundations and individual guilds. Disagreements over the education of craftsmen led to the foundation of the New Craftsmen's School (Danish: Ny Haandværkerskole) in 1868. Instigated by Industriforeningen, the rivalry of the between the two schools led to a reorganization of the Technical Society and a merger of the two schools under the name Det Tekniske Selskabs Skole (The Technical Society's School) in 1876. A new school building designed by

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on Ahlefeldsgade was inaugurated on 1 October 1881. In 1924–25, the school had 4104, who received their education in the main school or one of the four large and two small branch schools. The Technical Society's School absorbed several other schools over the years while Københavns Teknikum was spun off in 1963 and the School of Applied Arts in 1873. The school revived its current name when the Technical Society was dissolved in 1878. In 2004 the school merged with AMU-Center København. On 1 January 2016, Copenhagen Technical College merged with Cph West.

Campuses

Copenhagen Technical College occupies a total of nine locations in the Greater Copenhagen area. The school headquarters are located at Carl Jacobsens Vej 25 in

. The Valby campus is also home to HTX Sukkertoppen. The building is a former sugar processing plant from 1913. Another school with HTX programmes, HTX Vibenhus, is located on Jagtvej (No. 163) in

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. The seven remaining locations are: * Emdrup, Tuborgvej 177, 2400 København NV *

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, Rebslagervej 11, 2400 København NV *

Frederiksberg Frederiksberg () is a part of the Capital Region of Denmark. It is an independent municipality, Frederiksberg Municipality, separate from Copenhagen Municipality, but both are a part of the region of Copenhagen. It occupies an area of less tha ...

, Julius Thomsens Gade 5, 1974 Frederiksberg C *

Glostrup Glostrup is a Denmark, Danish town in Capital Region of Denmark, Region Hovedstaden, forming one of the Western suburbs (Copenhagen), western suburbs of Copenhagen. It is the administrative seat of Glostrup Municipality, with an estimated populati ...

, Fabriksparken 31, Glostrup *

Herlev Herlev is a suburb about 11 km northwest of Copenhagen city centre, bordering Rødovre to the south, Ballerup to the west and Gladsaxe Municipality, Gladsaxe to the north. It is the site of the municipal council of Herlev Municipality, Denma ...

, Marielundvej 44, 2730 Herlev *

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, Brønderslev Alle 25, 2770 Kastrup *

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: Tæbyvej 65, 2610 Rødovre *

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Taastrup Taastrup (or Tåstrup) () is a Denmark, Danish railway town and suburb of Copenhagen – 18 km west of Copenhagen's city centre. The town forms a twin urban area with neighbouring suburb Høje Taastrup, Taastrup rising since 1859 and Høje Ta ...

References

External links

Official website

Aarhus Tech
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