New Campus Glasgow

Welcome to the New Campus Glasgow website. Here you’ll find out all about the project – the ‘what, why, how’ etc – and keep up to date with the latest developments. You can leave us a message or a video to share your thoughts or take the survey to formally record your views. Whatever you need from the website, you’ll hopefully find it here. And if not, drop us a line to ask us a question.

New Campus Glasgow is a visionary project to create an inspiring, flexible learning environment for City of Glasgow College (the new College being created through the merger of Glasgow’s city centre Colleges: Central, Metropolitan and Nautical). It will be home to around 1,500 staff and 40,000 students and will become the new heart of the city’s thriving learning quarter.

The project is founded on solid business drivers and educational benefits. The current estate is unfit for purpose. Dispersed, inflexible, and costly to maintain it doesn’t provide the learning environment essential to achieve the College’s vision. A new shared campus means better value for public money. We will replace inefficient accommodation with inspirational learning environments to meet the current and future needs of learners.

To deliver a project as complex as this, we have a robust set of principles guiding our development:

• Inspiring, flexible learning environments
• Impact and image
• Accessible
• Sustainable
• Community facilities
• Attractive public spaces
• Deliverable
• Affordable

The three merging colleges are Central, Metropolitan and Nautical. Together, as the City of Glasgow College they represent 10% of Scotland’s further education learning community and the merger will further enhance the reputation of the College and Glasgow.

The new college will be located across two campuses. The City Campus at Cathedral Street – existing home to Central and Metropolitan Colleges – and the Riverside Campus – current home of the Nautical College – at Thistle Street.

These are just a few of the milestones in the New Campus Glasgow project.

• Develop outline design from Febuary 2010
• Marine Skills Centre completed April 2010
• Apply for planning permission Autumn 2010
• Initial construction 2011
• Complete Construction 2014/2015
• Move in 2014/2015