Cardiff and Vale College

Cardiff and Vale College
City Centre Campus
Native name Coleg Caerdydd a'r Fro
Established September 2011 (2011-09)
Principal and Chief Executive Mike James
Deputy Principal Kay Martin
Chair Geraint Evans
Location Cardiff and Barry
Wales
Students 20,000
Gender coeducational

Cardiff and Vale College abbreviated to CAVC (Welsh: Coleg Caerdydd a'r Fro), is a mixed-sex education Further Education college in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.

The college was formed in September 2011 by the merger of Barry College and Coleg Glan Hafren. The merger was a result of the Welsh Assembly Government encouraging colleges in Wales to collaborate so that it could maximise benefits for students.[1] Cardiff and Vale College (or Coleg Caerdydd a’r Fro) is now one of the largest colleges in Wales.[2] The College took control of the Cardiff International Sports Stadium from July 2015 on a peppercorn rent to Cardiff Council.[3]

In 2015 a new main campus costing £45 million was opened in Dumballs Road, Cardiff, to cater for 4000 students. Facilities included 130 teaching rooms, film and dance studios, a theatre, a hair salon and spa and, on the top floor, a public bar and restaurant.[4] Having sold their main Cardiff site in City Road, Cardiff, the college intended to keep their other Cardiff campus, at Trowbridge and convert it to become an art college.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "Cardiff and Vale College". Cavc.ac.uk. 2011-08-26. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
  3. ↑ "Plans to rent Cardiff International Sports Stadium to Cardiff and Vale College are approved". Media Wales. 2015-03-19. Retrieved 2016-09-29.
  4. 1 2 Sion Barry (17 June 2015). "First look inside Cardiff and Vale College's new £45m campus in the centre of the capital". Wales Online. Retrieved 2017-08-19.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.