These are exciting times for Coleg Morgannwg as it embarks on its ambitious plans to create a learning facility that will be an iconic beacon for learning and education in Rhondda Cynon Taff; bringing high quality training and education to the area for generations to come.
The new £40m development, the Taf Ely Learning Campus, is part of the college’s Estates Strategy and will be developed on the 7.74 acre site opposite its existing facility at Heol Yr Odyn, Nantgarw.
The new building has been designed to meet the needs of the college’s changing and diverse curriculum and to provide staff and over 3,000 students with up-to-date, modern facilities.
Designed over four floors the campus will incorporate facilities for Computing, Information Technology, Science, Care & Childhood Studies, Business & Professional Studies, Sport, Catering, Hair & Beauty, Music and Performing Arts along with a purpose built state of the art Learning Centre.
The new campus will enable the College to expand the model developed at the Rhondda campus, where facilities are available and used by the community, other public sector and private sector organisations seven days per week throughout the year.
The building is due to be completed and occupied by September 2012 when staff and students will move from their current site at Rhydyfelin, which dates back to 1960 when it opened as a technical college.
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