John Ruskin College

John Ruskin College is a further education college in South Croydon offering full-time vocational courses and apprenticeships as well as part-time courses for adults.

John Ruskin College
Address
Selsdon Park Road (A2022)

South Croydon
,
Greater London
,
CR2 8JJ

United Kingdom
Coordinates51.351°N 0.043°W / 51.351; -0.043
Information
TypeFurther education
Established1920-1988 – founding institutions
1988 – John Ruskin College
2019 – constituent college of Orbital South Colleges
Local authorityCroydon
Department for Education URN130434 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherKevin Standish
Age16++
Enrolment1,800+ (2017)[1]
Websitewww.johnruskin.ac.uk

In 2019, following a merger with East Surrey College incorporating Reigate School of Art, John Ruskin College became part of Orbital South Colleges.

John Ruskin College is located on Selsdon Park Road (A2022), close to the A212 roundabout. The College is accessible by tram via Gravel Hill tram stop, as well as various local bus services.

Courses

A range of Full-time vocational courses are available for students:

  • Access to Higher Education
  • Applied Science
  • Aviation, Travel & Tourism
  • Business, Accounting & IT
  • Construction
  • Creative Arts (Digital Media, Games Design, Art, Design, Photography)
  • Early Years & Childcare
  • Engineering
  • ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
  • Hair & Beauty and Spa
  • Health & Social Care
  • Life Skills
  • Life Skills SEND
  • Public Services
  • Sport

The college also provides a range of Apprenticeship programmes.

History

Early years

John Ruskin College was a former school in the London Borough of Croydon, which started life in 1920 as the John Ruskin Boys' Central School. Its location was Scarbrook Road, Croydon. Named after John Ruskin, it opened on 12 January 1920. The Lady Edridge School, its sister school for girls (later to become a grammar school in 1951) opened the same day. Lady Edridge was wife of a Mayor of Croydon and the first "Lady Freeman" of the Borough. It closed in 1980 and was demolished.

Grammar and Comprehensive school

In 1935 the school moved to Tamworth Road, and in April 1945 it was granted grammar school status as the John Ruskin Grammar School for Boys (JRGS). It had been previously the John Ruskin Selective Central School. It moved to Upper Shirley Road, Shirley, in 1955, and was retitled the John Ruskin High School in 1971 before later becoming a 14-18 Co-Educational Comprehensive School. It was demolished in 1991. The Upper Shirley Road site surrounded the Shirley Windmill, a 19th-century tower mill.[2] The upper forms transferred to Selsdon to form the present John Ruskin College, utilising the premises previously known as John Newnham Secondary Selective School, named after a 20th-century town clerk of the old County Borough of Croydon.

The Current College

The current College was established in 1988 following re-organisation of post-16 studies in Croydon. It merged with East Surrey College in February 2019, creating Orbital South Colleges group.[3]

See also

The college should not be confused with John Ruskin Primary School,[4] which is in Southwark, nor the John Ruskin School Technology College in Cumbria, nor Ruskin College, Oxford.

Alumni and faculty

John Ruskin Grammar School

References
  1. https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/2735743
  2. "The history of Shirley Windmill". Friends of Shirley Windmill. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  3. https://www.esc.ac.uk/news/orbitalsouthcolleges
  4. John Ruskin Primary School Archived 2008-07-25 at the Wayback Machine, Axcis Education Recruitment
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.