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Redcar & Cleveland College
File:Redcarandclevelandcollege.jpg
Address
Corporation Road Redcar , Redcar and Cleveland , TS10 1EZ England
Information
Type	FE College
Established	1994
Local authority	Redcar and Cleveland
Department for Education URN	130573 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Gary Groom
Age	16+
Website	http://www.cleveland.ac.uk

Redcar & Cleveland College is a further education college, based in Redcar, North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the A1085 between Westfield and West Dyke, and very near Redcar Central railway station. It is in an area historically known as Coatham.

The college offers a range of full-time and part-time courses and has been acknowledged by Ofsted as providing a very supportive environment for students.

The college provides vocational courses for young people and adults in all those subject areas available in Further Education.

Students on the Hair and Beauty, Travel and Tourism, Administration and IT courses benefit from sophisticated and well-equipped facilities. These include an oriental inspired health and beauty spa, travel agency and administration bureau all of which will engage with the public to encourage preparation for work.

The college moved to a £26 million purpose-built campus building in September 2008, which provides a state-of-the-art learning environment for students. The new building offers the latest audio visual, computer and support systems, equipment and tools for students to enjoy an outstanding learning experience. The new building was officially opened by Prince Andrew, Duke of York on 12 February 2009.

The college opened a multi-million pound Higher Education Centre funded by Teesside University and the Sir William Turner's Trust Foundation, in September 2010. This centre delivers a state-of-the-art learning for students studying Higher Education courses.

Historically, the campus began as the Sir William Turner's Grammar School in Coatham. Sir William Turner left money to form a school in Kirkleatham in 1709, which was rebuilt on Coatham Road in 1868. In 1963 it moved to buildings on Corporation Road, opposite the current college. The boys' grammar school and the Cleveland Grammar School for Girls, on Redcar Lane, went comprehensive in 1975, with both sixth forms merging to form the Sir William Turner’s Sixth-Form College located on Redcar Lane. The girls' grammar school became Rye Hills School. The original school charity was the Sir William Turner Foundation.

In 1994, the sixth form college moved back to Corporation Road and merged with Cleveland Technical College to form the current college.

The main college was the Corporation Road Campus of the College. The Connections Campus was on Redcar Lane (B1269), at the southern end of Redcar Racecourse. This site was planned to become 187 new houses. The Loftus Campus was in the Centre of Opportunity & Partnership on High Street in Loftus, North Yorkshire.

• Ian Bancroft, Baron Bancroft CB (of Coatham in the county of Cleveland), President of the Building Centre Trust from 1987-93
• Thomas Frank Brenchley CMG, Ambassador to Poland from 1972-4, and to Norway from 1968-72
• Sir George Malcolm Brown, geologist
• Sir Steve Bullock
• Paul Daniels, magician
• Ralph Davison OBE, Chief Constable of Cleveland Constabulary from 1968-76
• Prof Henry Elderfield, Professor of Ocean Geochemistry and Palaeochemistry at the University of Cambridge since 1999
• Sir Rex Hunt CMG, Commander-in-Chief of the Falkland Islands from 1980-5
• Alan Keen, Labour MP for Feltham and Heston between 1992 and 2011
• John Lister CBE, Chief Executive of British Shipbuilders from 1987-9
• Raymond Pennock, Baron Pennock (of Norton in the county of Cleveland), President of the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) from 1978-9, and of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) from 1980-2, and Chairman of BICC plc from 1980-4
• Sir Thomas Rapp CMG, Ambassador to Mexico from 1947-50
• Sir Robert Stopford, Bishop of London from 1961-73
• Donald Tyerman CBE, Editor of The Economist from 1956-65
• Tim Williamson, footballer
• Kenneth Young, Editor of the Yorkshire Post from 1960-4

• Redcar & Cleveland College website
• Sir William Turner's School, Coatham
• EduBase

• Evening Gazette February 2009
• Arson in March 2003

• RCC YouTube channel