Barking and Dagenham College

Barking & Dagenham College
Address
Dagenham Road, Rush Green Romford , Greater London , RM7 0XU England
Coordinates	51.560°N 0.173°E / 51.560; 0.173
Information
Type	Further education
Motto	More than a qualification
Established	1961
Local authority	Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council
Department for Education URN	130424 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal & CEO	Natalie Davison[1][2]
Gender	Mixed
Age range	16+
Enrolment	10,000+ (2013)[3]
Website	www.barkingdagenhamcollege.ac.uk

Barking & Dagenham College is a general further education college in East London, England. It has four campuses across the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham with its main campus being located in Rush Green less than a mile from the Romford town centre. Their other campus are located in Barking town center at the Technical Skills Academy, The Broadway Theatre and Barking Learning Centre. ^[4]

The College is also home to the East London Institute of Technology. Institutes of Technology (IoT) were established by the Department for Education (DfE) to deliver world-class higher technical education - helping to increase the supply of high-skilled technicians across key industries that our economy needs.

Each IoT is awarded a license by DfE that outlines its role and objectives and is signed by all partners in the IoT. The Network has access to a £300 million capital funding pot to create state-of-the-art industry-standard facilities and infrastructure in which to deliver this learning. ^[5]

History

Originally known as Barking College, it became Barking & Dagenham College in 2010.

In 2015 the College became a Digital & Creative Industries Career College.^[6]

In February 2018, the College was awarded a £5m share of £25.7m funding by the Mayor, Sadiq Khan to complete its Centre for Advanced Technologies.^[7]

Courses

The college provides intermediate, advanced and higher apprenticeship training in London. Specialisms include Construction, Project Management, Human Resources Management, Business and Pharmacy. The college has 12,500 students and an annual turnover of £36 million (Source: Audited Accounts 2015/2016^[8]).^{[better source needed]}

In October 2017 the College and Huawei, a Chinese multinational technology corporation, launched a Huawei Authorized Information Network Academy.^[9]

Notable alumni

• Idris Elba, British actor, producer, musician, and DJ. He is best known for playing DCI John Luther on the BBC One series Luther as well as the narcotrafficker Stringer Bell in the HBO series The Wire.
• Adam Gemili, British Sprinter. He is the 2014 European champion at 200 metres, and 4 x 100 metres relay, and part of the Great Britain team that won gold in the 2017 World Championships in the same event
• Shaun Escoffery, a British soul and R&B singer and actor. Shaun currently plays Musafa in the Lion King.^[10]
• Razaaq Adoti a British actor, producer and screenwriter. Adoti was cast as Yamba in Steven Spielberg’s feature epic, Amistad alongside Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman and Matthew McConaughey.
• Kano, English rapper and actor from East Ham, London.
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste, actress, singer-songwriter, composer and director, best known for her roles as Hortense Cumberbatch in Secrets & Lies (1996), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
• Andi Osho, stand-up comedian and presenter
• Ricky Norwood, actor who played Fatboy in the BBC soap opera EastEnders^[11][12]
• Emmanuel Nwamadi, participant at The Voice UK, Series 4.^[13]
• Gurbir Singh Johal, BNOC at Homerton College Cambridge. DoSed by AA Battery and Wads.^[14]

References

1. "Welcome".
2. "Welcome".
3. Barking & Dagenham College Learning and Skills inspection report (Report). Ofsted. 31 May 2013. Archived from the original on 6 March 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
4. Barking College Report From The Inspectorate (PDF) (Report). Further Education Funding Council for England. 1998. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2021. https://barkingdagenhamcollege.ac.uk/about/our-campuses
5. "About | Institutes of Technology". www.institutesoftechnology.org.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
6. "Barking & Dagenham". Career Colleges Trust. Archived from the original on 24 April 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
7. Shaw, Alex (16 February 2018). "Mayor of London awards £5m funding to Barking and Dagenham College". Barking & Dagenham Post. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
8. "Audited accounts year ended 31st July 2016" (PDF). Barking and Dagenham College. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2017.
9. Liu, Cecily (12 October 2017). "Huawei partners with London college to foster technology skills". China Daily. Archived from the original on 24 April 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
10. "The Lion King Cast". Archived from the original on 24 April 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
11. "Fatboy played by Ricky Norwood". BBC. Archived from the original on 27 January 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
12. "Ricky Norwood (EastEnders: E20) Interview". Last Broadcast. Archived from the original on 15 May 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
13. Davies, Rachel. "College gets behind The Voice finalist Emmanuel – College gets behind The Voice finalist Emmanuel". barkingdagenhamcollege.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 1 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
14. "BNOC 2019 nominations are officially open – University of Cambridge". Archived from the original on 13 June 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2015.

External links

• Official website