Queen Mary's College

Infobox UK school
name = Queen Mary's College


type = Further education college
religion = Non-denominational
street = Cliddesden Road
city = Basingstoke
county = Hampshire
country = flagicon|United Kingdom
postcode = RG21 3HF
LEA = Hampshire County Council
ofsted = 130700
staff =
enrollment =
gender = Coeducational
lower_age = 16
website = http://www.qmc.ac.uk/
website_name = Official website

Queen Mary's College (often initialised as QMC) is a sixth form college in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.

The College

The majority of the college's classrooms are housed in a single, two-storey, wide spread main building with a few smaller buildings and four temporary buildings providing most of the rest of the teaching space. However, three departments are predominantly housed away from the main college building. Physical Education (and related subjects) are able to make use of the QM Sports Centre while ICT & Art (and related subjects) are now housed in a recently completed (2005) £6m 3-storey teaching block.

QM Sports Centre

QM Sports Centre is located on the main college campus and, although open to the general public, is widely used by the college both as a sports centre and for educational reasons. The centre's main facilities are a 630m² hall and a 23-metre swimming pool. The centre itself also incorporates a fitness centre and viewing gallery and also makes use of the college's various football, rugby and artificial turfed pitches.

Central Studio

Central Studio is a professional theatre located on the college campus. While the college's various departments use the facilities of Central Studio, including the bar, theatre, dance studio and recording facilities the building itself is often used to host various professional productions and concerts.

Curriculum

The college has approximately 2100 students (the majority aged between 16 and 19) enrolled on full-time courses. It also offers a range of Adult Education opportunities, and has over 1000 students enrolled on part-time courses. The majority of students come from the Basingstoke and Deane area, where there are no local state schools with sixth forms.

Queen Mary's College offers AS and A-level courses in 40 different subjects, as well as several vocational courses and BTEC national diplomas.

Notable alumni

*Elizabeth Hurley
*Tanita Tikaram

ee also

* Basingstoke College of Technology

External links

* [http://www.qmc.ac.uk/ Queen Mary's College website]
* [http://www.centralstudio.co.uk/ Central Studio]
* [http://www.qmc.ac.uk/sports-centre.htm QM Sports Centre]
* [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/manreports/881.htm 2003 Ofsted Report]

Notes

[http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,1636210,00.html The Guardian - College Days - Alex Thomson]