Your alma mater

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simon.r

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Nottingham
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).
 
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Drago

Legendary Member
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.
 

classic33

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

Don't know why!!
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
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

Never used Über Member
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.
 
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screenman

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

raleighnut

Legendary Member
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
 

raleighnut

Legendary Member
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'
 
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