Blackburn College has opened its £7m Sir Bill Taylor Futures Centre, giving students state-of-the-art science, technology, engineering, maths and media facilities.
Principal Ian Clinton said: “The opening of the Sir Bill Taylor Futures Centre is a statement of the university and college’s clear commitment to expanding the support we give to business locally, regionally and increasingly nationally and internationally.
The Centre, dedicated to the chairman of the Corporation Board of Blackburn College and the former leader of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, contains a replica eco-house, advanced manufacturing workshops, a TV studio, radio station and a cinema. It covers an internal area of 2,866 square metres and contains in excess of 30 teaching spaces, five laboratories and three electrical workshops.
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