Comments on: New Thanet College site to open in September 2011

By: Planespotter

Planespotter — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:43:19 +0000

You are correct Adem, I can confirm that this definately won’t be happening in the forseeable future, with the LSC being shut down in April next year, no funding and massive government debts I doubt it will happen ever.

By: Adem

Adem — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:09:22 +0000

Funding for this has been lost due to a lack of funding. I’m not sure anythign will be happening for the near future now…

By: Aceo Art

Aceo Art — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:57:45 +0000

As a noob on the subject I learnt a lot from your post. Thanks!

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:20:09 +0000

It may not be happening it all
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7951457.stm

By: Matt B (Thanet Star)

Matt B (Thanet Star) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:09:23 +0000

Some shops are going to loose out on the lunch time trade. Some pubs might take a hit but I wonder if the impact will be big or small?

By: Rearview mirror

Rearview mirror — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:49:50 +0000

Agree with the traffic situation. However the site at Broadstairs was fast becoming not fit for purpose. The new college will be state of art, giving Thanet a chance to compete with the new Canterbury college (after all education is a business these days).

I was a mature student at Broadstairs. Although a loss to Broadstairs, in my opinion most students stayed on site. We did have the occasional class trip to either The Dickens or Morellis, this cannot unfortunately be replicated at Westwood X.

By: Aravis

Aravis — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:33:21 +0000

It is reasonable to expect that they will be open in 2011? Wow. That would never happen here. It takes forever to get this sort of thing done.

I’m impressed.

By: Adem

Adem — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:25:49 +0000

Chrissie – The presentation was through my work at the University and so was not open to the public. I’m sure with work due to start this summer then more information will be released.

Thanet Observer – It’s hard to disagree that this will have a knock-on effect for local businesses but hopefully this will be balanced out by the positives of increasing education amongst the local population and providing them with vocational skills that many of the courses offer.

By: Thanet Observer

Thanet Observer — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:49:41 +0000

Judging by the queues of students outside Rooks in Broadstairs High Street at lunchtimes, thats one business that will certainly notice the difference. It’s not just the ‘shed’ shops killing off town centre business, it’s our places of learning too now it seems.

By: Chrissie

Chrissie — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:19:27 +0000

Hi Adem, (I cant find your email address so sending through this site – sorry). I wondered where the presentation was held and who organised it? – as I hadn’t heard about it. Many thanks and with kind regards, Chrissie.