Hackney College
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London Borough of Hackney
The London Borough of Hackney is a London borough of North/North East London, and forms part of inner London. The local authority is Hackney London Borough Council....
. Its latest Ofsted inspection in 2010 rated the college as 'Good', with strengths including safe and friendly environment; high standard of facilities; good student progression; good care, guidance and support; and outstanding partnerships.
HCC has over 9,000 students each year. This figure is made up of 16-18 year-olds in the new South Hackney Sixth 6th form, and adults who study full and part time. Increasing numbers of 14-16 year-olds also learn at the college either in partnership with local schools or through other arrangements. The college is home to the London City Hospitality Centre and its training restaurant, Open Kitchen - http://www.openkitchen.biz/
The college is working with other organisations to prepare local people to make the most of the opportunities brought to the region by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Some students are working on the Olympic Park and others are training to get other Games-related work. In recognition of this it was one of the first London colleges to join the official 2012 Get Set network.
Hackney Community College delivers learning and training across the area. Its main campus is in Falkirk Street, Hoxton
Hoxton
Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, immediately north of the financial district of the City of London. The area of Hoxton is bordered by Regent's Canal on the north side, Wharf Road and City Road on the west, Old Street on the south, and Kingsland Road on the east.Hoxton is also a...
. This opened in 1996 and at that time was the largest capital Further Education building project in the UK. HCC's SPACe (Sport and Performing Arts Centre) was funded by Sport England
Sport England
Sport England is the brand name for the English Sports Council and is a non-departmental public body under the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...
as a Centre of Excellence in Cricket and Basketball. SPACe was home to London United Basketball and is still the base for the (mostly) all-conquering Hackney Community College Basketball Academy
Hackney Community College Basketball Academy
The Hackney Community College's Basketball Academy is a basketball programme, located in the London Borough of Hackney in the UK originally designed to engage young people vulnerable to exclusion from education to gain qualifications through engagement with a sport in which they demonstrated talent...
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The college also helps businesses by training their staff in many industry sectors.
HCC's main campus is in Shoreditch, backing onto Hoxton. This is a creative area of East London with fashion, media, digital and art-based businesses as well as galleries, bars and clubs. The nearest station is Hoxton on the East London Line - a few minutes' walk away. Or 10 minutes from Old Street. Buses 394, 149, 242, 243, 67 etc.
The college was originally named Hackney College when it was formed in 1974 by the amalgamation of Hackney and Stoke Newington College of Further Education with those sites of Poplar Technical College that had been established in Hackney. Initially run by ILEA
ILEA
ILEA may refer to:* Inner London Education Authority* International Law Enforcement Academies* A new collection of Baume et Mercier* Iowa Law Enforcement Academy* Ileea Daniel,patronul din Athos,Baia Mare....
and, following that, by Hackney Council, when it was renamed. It is now an independent institution, mainly funded through public funds. For a few years it was known as The Community College Shoreditch
Shoreditch
Shoreditch is an area of London within the London Borough of Hackney in England. It is a built-up part of the inner city immediately to the north of the City of London, located east-northeast of Charing Cross.-Etymology:...
but has now reverted to the name Hackney Community College (dating from the process known as "incorporation" in 1993 when it was formed from the merger of Hackney College, Hackney 6th Form Centre and Hackney Adult Education Institute)
Previous institutions known as Hackney College
'Hackney College' has also been widely used (by PevsnerNikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, FBA was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture...
and others) to refer specifically to Brooke House, until September 2002 one of the Community College's sites. This has now become BSix Sixth Form College
BSix Sixth Form College
BSix Sixth Form College: Brooke House is a sixth form college located in Upper Clapton, London in the United Kingdom. It officially opened in September 2002, giving students in Hackney the opportunity to study at a college close to where they live. Brooke House has previously been the site of other...
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The modern version of the term should also be distinguished from previous Hackney Colleges:
- One name for the Dissenting AcademyDissenting academiesThe dissenting academies were schools, colleges and nonconformist seminaries run by dissenters. They formed a significant part of England’s educational systems from the mid-seventeenth to nineteenth centuries....
set up by Calvinists in HomertonHomertonHomerton is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. It is bordered to the west by Hackney Central, to the north by Lower Clapton, in the east by Hackney Wick, Leyton and by South Hackney to the south.-Origins:...
(in the parish of Hackney) in 1786, also known in various accounts as Homerton Academy, or Homerton College. In these years it attracted some notable students, including William HazlittWilliam HazlittWilliam Hazlitt was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Yet his work is...
. In 1850 it split into two parts. The teacher training component moved to Cambridge, where it is still known as Homerton College; the theological functions stayed in London as part of the three-college merger that created New College LondonNew College LondonNew College London was founded as a Congregationalist college in 1850.-Predecessor institutions:...
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- One name for the seminarySeminaryA seminary, theological college, or divinity school is an institution of secondary or post-secondary education for educating students in theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy or for other ministry...
co-founded by George CollisonGeorge CollisonGeorge Collison was an English Congregationalist and educator associated with Hackney Academy or Hackney College, which became part of New College London - itself part of the University of London.-Early life:...
(b. 1772- d. 1847). It was also known as Hackney Academy or Hackney Theological Seminary, or Hackney Itineracy, but became best known as the Hackney College after 1871, a name which stuck even after its 1887 move to Finchley RoadFinchley RoadFinchley Road, an inner city main road which runs for about 7 kilometres/4 miles, is one of the major thoroughfares of north London, England.Originally named Finchley New Road, it was built as a turnpike road in the late 1820s/early 1830s to provide a by-pass to the existing route north from London...
, HampsteadHampsteadHampstead is an area of London, England, north-west of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Camden in Inner London, it is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations and for Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland...
. Its principal at about this time was Peter Taylor ForsythPeter Taylor ForsythPeter Taylor Forsyth, also known as P. T. Forsyth, was a Scottish theologian.The son of a postman, Forsyth studied at the University of Aberdeen and then in Göttingen...
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Both of these merged in 1900, becoming the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
's first Faculty of Theology. In 1924 this became, by Act of Parliament, a constituent college known as Hackney and New College, the two names by which its disparate buildings throughout north London
North London
North London is the northern part of London, England. It is an imprecise description and the area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes. Common to these definitions is that it includes districts located north of the River Thames and is used in comparison with South...
were commonly known. In 1934 new premises were planned. In 1936, the name of the college was simplified to New College London, harking back to the Congregationalist merger of 1850.