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lasgow businesses are certain to benefit from the feel-good factor and the outstanding facilities created by the opening of the £162 million City


campus, which has transformed Glasgow’s skyline, has opened to staff and the first generation of students. It is expected that the new premises will enthuse and encourage a new generation of students and prepare them for the work environment. Paul Litle, City of Glasgow College Principal


and Chief Executive, said: “Tese students are the first to study in this outstanding new building and are the forerunners for its new technology and open, cohesive learning spaces. “Our new City campus is a truly outstanding


building that will transform our student experience with its vast open and inspiring, learning and teaching environment.” He pointed out that of the 800 learning


spaces, only one is a lecture theatre, highlighting the changing nature of Higher and Further Education. “Along with our Riverside maritime campus


– our super college represents a multi-million pound investment and is also the single largest college development in the UK. It has been meticulously designed to offer superb opportunities to our students and to meet and adapt to the changing needs of the six million people we expect to atend this College over its


lifetime,” said Paul. “Our next-generation super campus plays a crucial part in delivering City of Glasgow College’s educational vision and inspiring ambition to shape a new era of tertiary education. Scotland now has a world-class technical and professional education College to sit alongside its world-class universities.”


City campus, together with Riverside campus,


is expected to accommodate up to 40,000 students and 1,200 staff a year. Te new building is equipped with state-of-


the-art facilities that include TV and radio studios, an aircraſt training cabin, 16 professional cookery kitchens, creative design and photography studios, industrial-sized construction, craſt and built environment area; and a fine dining restaurant and City market – butchers, bakers, fishmongers – that will be open to the public. Te college also has a Business Centre where


Glasgow’s businesses will be encouraged to come and meet students who might well become future employees. Future phases of the super campus


development comprise the completion of demolitions, external spaces, landscaping and parking facilities, with overall completion due for autumn 2017. Te Riverside Campus, a project costing


The new super campus will welcome


40,000 students annually


£66m, will make it the most technologically advanced maritime campus in the world and one of the few STEM Centres of Excellence in Scotland. It will house the first women-only engineering and construction classes in Scotland and a £6m marine skills centre with its own jety, rescue lifeboats and free-fall lifeboat. It will be one of only four in the UK recognised to deliver Merchant Navy officer training to Chief Engineer and Master Mariner level.


The new City of Glasgow College campus is a state-of-the-art centre for learning


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