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5 unusual facts about City and Guilds of London Institute


Colin Evans

Colin Evans qualified in Portuguese Language and Culture at Portugal's oldest University, University of Coimbra and he holds a Licentiateship (LCGI) and Graduateship (GCGI) in Leadership and Management from the City and Guilds of London Institute, is fluent in English and Portuguese and has a working knowledge of French.

Orchards Academy

Orchards Academy offers GCSEs, BTECs and City and Guilds courses as programmes of study for pupils.

Tony Boxall

He left school at 14, and did manual labour while attending evening classes at Redhill Technical College, gaining City and Guilds qualifications in technical subjects.

Visions Learning Trust

A range of GCSEs are offered, as well as BTECs, NVQs and City and Guilds qualifications depending on the pathway.

Wilfrid Vernon

Educated in the Stationers' Company School and the City and Guilds Technical College in London, Vernon served in the RNVR during the First World War, before becoming a squadron major in the RNAS and was a major in the RAF in its early days.


Bogus colleges in the United Kingdom

An example of a bogus college run as a scam is the Middlesbrough-based National Distance Learning College, which operated between 1999 and 2001 and offered distance learning courses in computing and business related subjects which it claimed were accredited by official qualification bodies such as BTEC and City & Guilds.

Christopher Snowden

Sir Christopher Maxwell Snowden FRS FREng FIET FIEEE FCGI (born 5 March 1956 in Kingston upon Hull) is the president and vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

Julia Higgins

She is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the City and Guilds of London Institute, of which she is also Vice-President.


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