Shrewsbury College to unveil new business centre
Shrewsbury College will unveil a new business centre in September, as part of a major £15 million project to expand its campus.
The business centre, in London Road, will be made up of four classrooms and will be situated in the £6 million three-storey building extension which is currently under construction on site.
It will also house training kitchens and a training restaurant that will be opened to the public. Bosses at Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology said the overall project to improve and modernise its main London Road campus was on schedule to also finish in September.
The business centre will mean students can study in a professional working environment and up to 80 will be able to use the new facility at any one time, with each classroom big enough for about 20 people.
The expansion project will enable the further education college, which has more than 10,000 students throughout the county as well as further afield, to attract even more to the town.
Assistant college principal Catherine Armstrong said: "Our bespoke business centre will be housed in the new three-story extension at the campus."
The college is the first in the country to be approved to deliver a new qualification which means it can offer a range of new business courses. Mrs Armstrong added: "There's never been a better time to have marketable skills.
"Our full and part-time business qualifications allow you to get ahead of the competition and changes to funding mean that some students will be eligible to study at the centre for free."
In the first phase of works in 2011 the further education college completed a £3 million upgrade of its London Road campus, which included the refurbishment of the Engineering and Construction Centre. The ribbon was cut by TV star Kate Bellingham, the former Tomorrow's World presenter.
Shrewsbury College has two other campuses, one in Radbrook, in Shrewsbury, and the other at Stafford Park in Telford.
