South Lanarkshire College

South Lanarkshire College (Scottish Gaelic: Colaiste Shiorrachd Lannraig a Deas) is a further education institution in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Its campus is located in East Kilbride, with new buildings completed in 2008 at a site between the town centre and the Kelvin industrial area.[1]

South Lanarkshire College
TypeCollege of Further Education
Established1948
PrincipalAileen McKechnie
Students5,000
Location
East Kilbride
,
South Lanarkshire
,
Scotland

55.7535°N 4.1582°W / 55.7535; -4.1582
Websitehttp://www.south-lanarkshire-college.ac.uk/

The college was founded in 1948 as a building school in Cambuslang and had several sites for its various departments over its history, including at Blantyre, Motherwell, Hamilton and Wishaw.[1] Its last site in Cambuslang was at the former Gateside School which dated from the 1880s, but was demolished soon after the college relocated entirely to East Kilbride.[2]

In 2019, the college was chosen as the site for a monument to the workers at the nearby, recently closed Rolls-Royce engineering works who refused to fix military aircraft engines used by the Pinochet regime of Chile in the 1970s (detailed in the documentary movie Nae Pasaran);[3] the monument itself is one of the engines sent to the factory which was never used again.[4]

References
  1. "College History | About Us | About Us". Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  2. The end of an era, Daily Record, 29 October 2008
  3. On yer way, Pinochet! The factory workers who fought fascism from Glasgow, The Guardian, 1 November 2018
  4. ‘Permanent tribute’ | Nae Pasaran: Jet engine monument to Pinochet boycotters unveiled, Unite Live, 25 October 2019


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