Preston's College

Coordinates: 53°47′02″N 2°42′02″W / 53.7839°N 2.7005°W / 53.7839; -2.7005

Preston's College is a further education college in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. The college originally opened as W.R. Tuson College in September 1974 and was renamed Preston College on 1 September 1989. In September 2013, the college changed its name from Preston College to Preston's College.

Campus

The college had two main sites until mid-2011; the main campus on St. Vincent's Road in Fulwood and a smaller building located next to Moor Park. The college finished the build of a Btec building in mid-2011 upon the Fulwood campus; the building cost over one million pounds and replaced the Moor Park campus.

A £5m visual and performing arts centre was opened on the Fulwood site in January 2012.

Courses

The college offers vocational subjects and academic courses at a sixth form college level.

Staff

As of 2008, the college chief executive was Willie Mills, a former principal of both the Northumberland College in Ashington and the City College in Manchester. He took up his post at Preston College in early 2007.