South Lanarkshire College
Educational institution in Scotland
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South Lanarkshire College is a further education institution in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Its campus is located in East Kilbride, with new buildings completed in 2008 at a site between the town centre and the Kelvin industrial area.[1]
| Type | College of Further Education |
|---|---|
| Established | 1948 |
| Principal | Aileen McKechnie |
| Students | 5,000 |
| Location | , , 55.7535°N 4.1582°W |
| Website | http://www.south-lanarkshire-college.ac.uk/ |
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The college was founded in 1948 as a building school in Cambuslang and had several sites for its various departments over its history, including at Blantyre, Motherwell, Hamilton and Wishaw.[1] Its last site in Cambuslang was at the former Gateside School which dated from the 1880s, but was demolished soon after the college relocated entirely to East Kilbride.[2][3][4]
In 2019, the college was chosen as the site for a monument to the workers at the nearby, recently closed Rolls-Royce engineering works who refused to fix military aircraft engines used by the Pinochet regime of Chile in the 1970s (detailed in the documentary movie Nae Pasaran);[5] the monument itself is one of the engines sent to the factory which was never used again.[6]
