Category Archives: Croydon College

Electric House gets makeover for Britain’s 95th-best university

Posted on July 5, 2020 by

‘It’s a bit like saying Fulham are one of London’s top football teams.’ Our Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on the latest example of the council over-hyping its performance Unable to deliver the £1.4billion shiny new Westfield shopping mall that … Continue reading →

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Revealed: Council’s plan for town centre is 95th-best university

Posted on May 7, 2020 by

GENE BRODIE, education correspondent, on the increasingly desperate-looking moves to salvage anything from the town centre regeneration Croydon Council’s “cunning plan” to dig the town centre out of the hole created for it by the Whitgift Foundation and Westfield is … Continue reading →

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Coulsdon teachers go on strike over £700m funding shortfall

Posted on November 18, 2019 by

Teaching union members working at Coulsdon Sixth Form College will be on strike on Wednesday, demanding more funding for their students and their college. Across the country, the  National Education Union will be taking strike action at another 33 sixth … Continue reading →

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Labour warns that education cuts threaten knife crime work

Posted on June 7, 2019 by

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner and Croydon MP Sarah Jones have warned that funding cuts to colleges and schools in Croydon risk jeopardising the good work being done in the borough to tackle knife crime. The Labour MPs met staff … Continue reading →

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Council goes toe-to-toe with College over ‘university’

Posted on March 13, 2019 by

Croydon College and the University of Sussex have been providing degree courses in the town centre for a decade. Now the council, with its own multi-billion development plans in tatters, has decided to come up with a scheme of its … Continue reading →

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Exhibition opens to celebrate 150 years of School of Art

Posted on January 7, 2018 by

An exhibition has opened at the Museum of Croydon in the Clocktower to mark the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Croydon School of Art. The free exhibition is on display until April 14, and includes work from many of … Continue reading →

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Reverse Jobs Fair matches applicants with employers

Posted on September 28, 2017 by

A council-backed event for local businesses to hire applicants with disabilities returns in October. The Reverse Jobs Fair, which is open to applicants with disabilities looking for everything from a permanent post to a temporary work placement, will be held … Continue reading →

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Developers in multi-million-pound gamble over playing fields

Posted on July 11, 2017 by

Croydon College has sold off disused playing fields near the Purley Way to a private firm of housing developers, while the land does not have planning permission for housing. None of the parties to the secretive deal are willing to … Continue reading →

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Tories oppose 2,000 homes in housing minister’s constituency

Posted on February 24, 2017 by

WALTER CRONXITE reports on the planning permission granted to a Labour council scheme which could make Gavin Barwell’s constituency a safe Tory seat Barely a year before the next Town Hall elections, and Croydon Tories last night handed a gift-wrapped … Continue reading →

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Fairfield Halls CEO was paid in full prior to administration

Posted on July 20, 2016 by

The financial collapse of the charitable body which managed the Fairfield Halls did not prevent its chief executive, Simon Thomsett, receiving his salary payments in full right up to last Friday. Thomsett, who had worked at Fairfield Halls for six … Continue reading →

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