Associate Member:

City of Glasgow College

Organisation Type:
Further Education College

Contact details
Address: City Campus, 190 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G4 0RF

Tel: +44 (0) 141 375 5203

Website: https://www.cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk

City of Glasgow College (COCG) is the largest College in Scotland. COGC is designed for 40,000 students and since merger in 2010, it has enabled over 100,000 graduates to acquire recognised qualifications and engaged with employers, business, industry and education partners to build a curriculum of over 2,000 professionally recognised courses from access level to masters.

The College’s campus became fully operational in 2016 and represents a £228 million investment in tertiary education. This is the single largest college development in Europe, offering state of the art facilities.

COGC is also one of the largest in the UK engaged in international activity maintaining longstanding and successful partnerships across 5 continents extending to 110 overseas partners across 39 countries.

COCG has hosted 25 ministerial and governmental visits from 13 different countries and its partners include public and private educational institutions, financial services, governmental organisations and non-profit organisations.

COCG has a global reach attracting one of the largest international student bodies in Scottish further education with over 5,000 learners from around 130 countries world-wide, reflecting a 1:6 ratio of international to domestic students.

The college has over 1,500 industry partners which highlights the commitment the college places in employer engagement to meet industry needs, address skills gaps and enhance employment opportunities for students.

COCG plays a leading role at regional, national and international levels to promote and develop Technical and Vocational Education to meet changing local and global skills requirements.

The College, like Scotland as a nation, is a real melting pot of diversity, equality and excellence with a long history of welcoming all ages, backgrounds, and cultures. Its students reflect our vision that learning should be available to all.

Technical and Vocational education plays an important role in producing skilled workers and plays a valuable role in economic growth and to keep the nation’s unemployment rate at a low level. COGC has delivered education and training for 6 decades and is well respected and known for providing high quality vocational education and training globally. This means COGC is in a strong position to support international partners in developing their skills base for a thriving economy and ambitious growth.

COCG believes they are extremely well placed to offer a suite of employment-related, skills-based training programmes to match targeted re- and/or up-skilling demand to support local, national and international economies. COGC’s experience in engaging with industry sectors to identify skills gaps and develop pedagogical processes to embed industry content to our programmes will be of value to international partners to support increased employer interaction, including curriculum inputs and apprenticeships.

City Of Glasgow College’s core offer includes: