Peterborough Regional College, established in 1946 as Peterborough Technical College, is a major college of further and higher education in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. It is currently ranked in the top five per cent of colleges in the United Kingdom.
A £120 million development will see the college move into new buildings on the site of its existing campus by 2012.
Engineering firms Peter Brotherhood and Baker Perkins relocated to Peterborough j...
More
Peterborough Regional College, established in 1946 as Peterborough Technical College, is a major college of further and higher education in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. It is currently ranked in the top five per cent of colleges in the United Kingdom.
A £120 million development will see the college move into new buildings on the site of its existing campus by 2012.
Engineering firms Peter Brotherhood and Baker Perkins relocated to Peterborough just after 1900 and by the 1930s British Thomson-Houston (which became Hotpoint), Newall Engineering and Mitchell Engineering were well established. Peterborough was already an important railway centre providing a great deal of work for the populace, but with all this industry there was no local provision for training.
In 1903 the County Technical School was set up in a small building in Broadway in the city centre with boys studying mathematics, science, technical drawing and some technological subjects. Girls studied a programme for...
Less
