'It looks great and it feels really nice to be here': A new dawn for Wolverhampton College students as city centre campus opens for lessons for first time
It was a day for the students and staff of Wolverhampton College to come together and bid a fond hello to the brand new city centre campus as it opened for lessons.
Hundreds of students joined staff in coming through the doors of the college's new state-of-the-art campus as it opened for the first time on Tuesday.
The four-storey campus, in Wolverhampton city centre, is the flagship of Wolverhampton Council's £61 million City Learning Quarter development and replaces the college's 63-year-old campus on Paget Road in Compton.
It was a chance for students to come in and get fully acquainted with their new surroundings and find their classrooms for lessons, having had an orientation day before half term to see the completed campus.
The new campus has a range of professional training equipment and facilities including science labs, digital areas, hair and beauty training salons, and professional broadcast, music, photography and performing arts studios, as well as modern classrooms with interactive teaching and learning technology.
It also has a commercial hair and salon, performance theatre and Careers and Skills Hub which are open to the public, and plenty of communal areas to sit at and have a drink or a bite to eat from the canteen, which is set next to the reception area.
While it was a cold and wet morning outside, the feeling inside was warm and welcoming, with staff and lecturers helping students to find their way around the four levels of the new campus.
This included 17-year-old IT students Mark Jackson and Corey Hilton, who both said they liked the look of the building and thought it would be great for doing their course at.
