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Award-winning


City of Glasgow College welcomes architectural accolade for new £66m Riverside Campus


G


lasgow Institute of Architects (GIA) has announced City of Glasgow College’s


new state-of-the-art £66m Riverside Campus, opened recently by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, as the winner of a major design award. Te development is part of a


£228m twin-site supercampus that also includes City Campus on Cathedral Street. It is set to open in summer 2016 and was identified by GIA as a “memorable civic landmark” for the city. City of Glasgow College


Principal and Chief Executive, Paul Litle, said: “Tis very welcome award from the Glasgow Institute of Architects represents further recognition of a world-class development by


City of Glasgow College. I am pleased that such a venerable institution as GIA recognises that our college is making positive change for Glasgow, for Scotland, and on an international scale.” Designed by Reiach and Hall


Architects, Riverside Campus will, along with City Campus, host more than 40,000 students of 130 nationalities and 1,200 members of staff. Te completed supercampus will offer the broadest range of courses of any college in Britain. In naming the City of Glasgow


College construction on the banks of the River Clyde as the subject of a 2015 Design Award in Education, a GIA spokesman described Riverside Campus as “the result of a combination of ideas about


City of Glasgow College’s new £66m Riverside Campus has been awarded a 2015 Design Award in Education by the Glasgow Institute of Architects


the city and about the student experience”. Te College also recently


achieved Stage Two of the Investors in Diversity award, with the National Centre for Diversity.


Project support


STATIONERY TAXIS DRIVE EDUCATION IN MALAWI


As part of its ongoing commitment to charity, Glasgow Taxis Ltd is helping to improve education among disadvantaged children in Malawi by donating much needed items of stationery to the STEKA (Step Kids Awareness) project. The black taxi company


Glasgow Taxis Ltd is helping to improve education among disadvantaged children in Malawi by donating items of stationery


teamed up with Project Trust volunteer, Lucy Bryce, from Gartcosh, to supply pencils, sharpeners, rulers and even torch key rings to under-privileged kids and help them to develop the


skills needed for a better future. The generous resource pack made a 7,510 mile journey across two continents to reach its final stop at the children’s home based in Chichiri, in the south of Malawi. Project Trust is an


educational volunteering charity, that sends more than 300 school-leavers overseas every year to work for long-term education, social care and outward bound projects across Africa, Asia and The Americas.


Te College is one of only a


few Scotish colleges to gain conditional achievement with a final assessment for Investors in Diversity taking place in August 2016.


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