Harrow College

Harrow College is a further education college in England with two campuses, in Harrow and Harrow Weald.[1] It was established in 1999 by the merger of two tertiary colleges; in 2017 it legally merged with Uxbridge College,[2] and in 2023 merged with Richmond upon Thames College, forming Harrow, Richmond & Uxbridge Colleges (HRUC).[3]

Harrow College
Address
Lowlands Road

Harrow
,
Middlesex
,
HA1 3AQ

England
Coordinates51°34′41″N 0°20′09″W
Information
TypeFurther Education
Established1914-1987 – founding institutions
1999 – Harrow College
2017 – constituent college of Harrow College & Uxbridge College
2023 – constituent college of Harrow, Richmond & Uxbridge Colleges
Local authorityHarrow
Department for Education URN131864 Tables
OfstedReports
Principal & CEOJo Withers
GenderCoeducational
Age16+
Websitewww.harrow.ac.uk

Harrow College is (as of 2013) medium-sized and had over 2,400 full-time and 4,700 part-time learners.[4] It also forms part of the London Borough of Harrow's Harrow Sixth Form Collegiate.

History

The college can date back to the early 20th century; Harrow County School for Girls was founded in Lowlands Road near Harrow town centre in 1914, while Harrow Weald County Grammar School was opened in Brookshill, Harrow Weald in 1933.[5] Until the 1970s these were grammar schools before a re-organisation turned them into sixth form colleges called Lowlands and Harrow Weald respectively.

In 1987 the tertiary colleges Greenhill College[6] and Weald College were established in their place when the borough of Harrow adopted a tertiary provision system. A third tertiary college called Elm Park College was also established, while the former Hatch End-based Harrow College for Further Education closed down to make way for these, and the Catholic St Dominic's Sixth Form College remained unaffected by the tertiary system. Greenhill and Weald colleges eventually merged on 1 August 1999, creating Harrow College.[7]

On 1 August 2017, Harrow College merged with Uxbridge College to form Harrow College & Uxbridge College (HCUC).[8]

On 4 January 2023, HCUC merged with Richmond upon Thames College to form Harrow, Richmond & Uxbridge Colleges (HRUC).[9]

Location

Teaching takes place at the Harrow on the Hill campus on Lowlands Road and at the Harrow Weald campus in Harrow Weald as well as two smaller, dedicated construction-focused units; Whitefriars Centre and Harrow Skills Centre.[10]

In 2015, the college opened two new buildings: The Enterprise Centre at the Harrow on the Hill campus and Spring House for supported learning at the Harrow Weald campus.[11]

Harrow College has been awarded a Centre of Excellence for the Hearing Impaired, which is the only centre of its kind in North West London.[12] The college is also a member of the Westminster Centre of Excellence in Teacher Training (CETT).

It holds the Pre School Learning Alliance kite mark.

Curriculum

Harrow College provides academic and vocational courses for young people and a range of professional and non-professional programmes for adult students. The college is highly regarded for its ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) courses. The EFL programmes are accredited by the British Council. The Learning Links programme has set a standard in the community for providing courses for students with learning disabilities and difficulties.

Alumni

The list includes former students of Greenhill College and Weald College.

Harrow County Grammar School for Girls

Harrow Weald County Grammar School

Former teachers

References
  1. Education UK British Council
  2. "About Us". HCUC.
  3. Harrow, Richmond & Uxbridge Colleges
  4. "Harrow College". Ofsted. May 2016.
  5. "Renewing those school ties". News Shopper.
  6. "Greenhill College, Harrow" (PDF). ioe.ac.uk.
  7. "The Harrow College (Incorporation) Order 1999 No. 1327".
  8. "HCUC (Harrow College and Uxbridge College). Monitoring visit report".
  9. "Harrow College and Uxbridge College Ready to Merge with Richmond upon Thames College".
  10. "Campus Information - Harrow College". www.harrow.ac.uk.
  11. "Harrow College Opens New Centre". AA Projects Ltd.
  12. "Harrow College's recognised as "centre of excellence"". Harrow Times.
  13. "Kevin Fong". rigb.org. The Royal Institution. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  14. "FE students add to Team GB Olympic medal haul". FE Week. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
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