Victoria Park City Of Glasgow

Victoria Park City Of Glasgow full name Victoria Park City Of Glasgow Athletics Club is a Scottish athletics club based in Glasgow, Scotland. The club is based primarily at the Scotstoun Stadium on Danes Drive.

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Scotstoun Stadium

Scotstoun Stadium is an athletics and rugby union stadium in Scotstoun, an area in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow Warriors have trained at the facility since 2009 and have played their home games here from the 2012–13 season onwards. The surface is a World Rugby approved artificial turf which is also suitable for athletics. It has a capacity of 9,708 for rugby union. Between 2012 and 2015, the Stadium hosted the Scotland Sevens – the Scottish leg of the IRB Sevens World Series, but then the leg was moved to a new host country, France in 2016. The Stadium is expected to host the athletic events at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, hosted by Scotland in the city of Glasgow. Temporary seating will be poised around the perimeter of the stadium, increasing the seating capacity to between 10,000-11,000 people.

Jordanhill

Jordanhill (Scots: Jordanhull, Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc Iòrdain) is an affluent area of the West End of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The area consists largely of terraced housing dating from the early to mid 20th century, with some detached and semi-detached homes and some modern apartments. Jordanhill College of Education and then the University of Strathclyde faculty of education were formerly in the area and the associated school has a high reputation.

Jordanhill College

Jordanhill College of Education was a higher education college in Jordanhill, Glasgow, Scotland. It opened as a teacher training college in 1921. The college merged with the University of Strathclyde in 1993, becoming its Faculty of Education. In 2012 all educational activities were moved to the John Anderson Campus and the campus closed.

Strathclyde Institute of Education

The Strathclyde Institute of Education is the education school and part of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. The Faculty of Education was formed in 1992 when the renowned Jordanhill College of Education (the first institution in Europe to train teachers) made the decision to merge with the University of Strathclyde in order to create a new faculty. The Faculty was launched on 1 April 1993, with its long history in the field of training new teachers; latterly however, it also trained education professionals in the arts, community education, physical education, sport and outdoor education, social work and speech and language therapy. The Faculty of Education was housed at the Jordanhill campus in the west end of Glasgow until 2012. Since relocating to the city centre campus the faculty became the Institute of Education. The Jordanhill campus housed the largest education research library in Scotland. There were two student residences on campus.