tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17601767172615731332024-02-19T08:24:08.728-08:00South Cheshire College 2006 - 2007DKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063392227763282031noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760176717261573133.post-89080170847613292472015-09-09T12:19:00.001-07:002015-09-09T12:24:59.549-07:00The Old Sommerville Building South Cheshire College 2007<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The East Entrance Claremont Road, the old tower block with student row, shopping and resource centres.</div>
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The Mobile unit was used for the disabled, behind it and around to the left were the BTEC crafts and engineering workshops.</div>
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Danebank Demolition</h3>
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The
main campus comprised of a multi story tower block - the Danebank
Center which was a landmark in crewe along with the Atos buiding and was
used as a node of Cheshire country councils Microwave internet network
until demolition began in 2009. It has had constant remodeling over the
years, I was first there in 1983 when my father was refitting electrics
and I had the run of the common rooms arcade machines for a day.<br />
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Summerville was abandoned first then the entire site leveled for a new £15 million building.<br />
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The
entire affair probably has less to do with education and more to do
with EU legislation making the old buildings unfit for use since they
were designed with repair ability in mind rather than energy efficiency.
Of course a big dollop of funding you had to spend had something to do
with it !<br />
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The
Summerville center at South Cheshire College was the adult education
wing also comprising science labs, a Conference Center and the
Hairdressers who kept style head models in their classroom windows
exactly like a lost tribe of headhunters.</div>
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The
student common room, meant of course as a common room, eventually over
the years became a computer resource center which was bookable - a
classroom in all but name. Much like the better equipped school library.
Computers were standardized, ICL-Fujitsu P4 computers with 512 mb - 1Gb
of memory running XP professional, there was an upgrade in 2007 where
the entire schools stock was put into a container while the next gen
dual core Fujitsu's replaced them, a big scramble ensued as schools
around Cheshire demanded the desktops.</div>
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Part
of the main building looking south, sorry about the flash photography,
notice the metal single pane windows which are easy and cheap to replace
with putty and light scaffold or a hire scissor lift.</div>
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Directly in front are 2 computer labs on this level where we learned HTML.</div>
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Looking down is the main entrance to the hairdressers training center, </div>
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South
Cheshire is one of the few places where there is an on site Daycare
Center, I have met this at no other educational faculty especially
Universities. </div>
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The all round car park facing South, East is the Conference center and Computer/Science labs,</div>
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an access road to the right went south to the main campus with parking on the tennis courts. </div>
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The
main conference halls at Summerville 2nd floor right was the Common
Room directly behind me as I shot the photograph was the Daycare Center,
South is the main building and campus. </div>
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The
Maintenence side of the Summerville center looking North/South on the
north access road, you can see the air conditioner block and the chimney
for the now gas fired heating.</div>
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Looking
back you will find this to be the golden age of funding for education
just before the bills arrive - the state has been dropping out of direct
funding for decades. </div>
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The New College Campus</h3>
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My time here was spending 2 years 3 days a week for the Diploma for
Applied Computer science, where the College ran the first 2 years of the
course for Manchester Metropolitan University, MMU was actually a
pretty awful place to attend especially with the administration unable
to process basic UCAS documents having the students who entered MMU from
South Cheshire listed as first year undergraduates ignoring their
Diplomas(<i>and optional module choices, which in my case was a switch
from databases to cybernetics which they considered too hard, I already
had attended Reading University and took the module, for me it would
have been pretty easy and got the 2.1 I was denied</i>). Admin at SSC nothing short of excellent WINSIG.DKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063392227763282031noreply@blogger.com0