Your alma mater

[simon.r]

Inspired by the 'your birth town' thread, where, post school, were you educated?

For me, Leicester Poly (now De Montfort Uni), Trent Poly (now Nottingham Trent Uni) and East Ham College of Technology (no idea what that is now).

 

[Drago]

Post skool...

British Army.

Open University 1993-1998, undergrad.

Open University 2001-2003, postgrad.

All sorts of professional quali's from different institutions along the way.

 

[Tin Pot]

I'm not sure any school educated me.

 

[stephec]

Lancashire Polytechnic, I think it's now called The University of Central Lancashire.

 

[Spiderweb]

Leeds college of Building.

 

[roadrash]

school of life

 

[classic33]

Taught the teachers a few things. Some ended up not trusting me and keeping a close eye on me.

Don't know why!!

 

[Racing roadkill]

THE university of Leicester, Southampton University. It all gets a bit blurry after that.

 

[srw]

Appropriately, my alma mater ("nourishing mother") had the motto reginae erunt nutrices tuae ("Queens will be your nurse-maids" - Isaiah 49:23). And before we were matriculated (from matrix - womb) an emeritus professor pointed out all of this imagery. And added that the place we were going to be matriculated was supposedly designed by Christopher Wren to look just a little bit like some the womb we would eventually be ejected from.

(His sister is a poet who wrote the screenplay for Merchant-Ivory Howard's End, and managed to get him a bit-part. Yes, I did start my adult life with a hell of a lot of advantages, and I'm sure it's been useful even if the specific college tie has never helped.)

 

[NorthernDave]

San Quentin High, followed by
Leeds College of Technology

Plus lots of technical training at places like MIRRC, Thatcham (now Thatcham Research) and several professional qualifications.

 

[screenman]

Post school Kingston Technical College, I went twice and fell asleep in a Lecture. That was the end of my apprenticeship.

 

[Oldfentiger]

Lancashire Polytechnic, I think it's now called The University of Central Lancashire.

If it's the one in Bolton, I went there when it was called Bolton Institute of Tecnology.
It was one of only two foundry colleges in the country.

 

[raleighnut]

Inspired by the 'your birth town' thread, where, post school, were you educated?

For me, Leicester Poly (now De Montfort Uni), Trent Poly (now Nottingham Trent Uni) and East Ham College of Technology (no idea what that is now).

Southfields College, formerly part of Leicester Poly the woodwork dept moved to the new building and we of the furniture making course were the 'crème de la creme' of the 'woodworkers' and had an 'end of course' show

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...ollege&usg=AFQjCNGgn5K46bMCy2ZEQl4qhC80qoudZQ

 

[vickster]

University of Leeds

 

[raleighnut]

If it's the one in Bolton, I went there when it was called Bolton Institute of Tecnology.
It was one of only two foundry colleges in the country.

I spent 8yrs in Non-Ferrous foundries, mainly working as a freehand 'green sand' moulder in ornamental brassware (mainly fireplace components) in the 80s although we also did a lot of sign/ plaque castings for a firm called 'Nauticalia'