Central College (Glasgow)

Central College, formerly Central College of Commerce, was a college situated in the centre of Glasgow. It merged with Glasgow Metropolitan College and Glasgow College of Nautical Studies in 2010 to form City of Glasgow College. The college had links to universities such as Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Glasgow and provided courses such as Business Studies, Information Technology and Health, Hair and Beauty, Legal Studies (which can provide a direct access to the LLB law degree) and accountancy. The college was one of Scotland's few specialist colleges and provided courses from Certificate through to Postgraduate level. In addition to the first two years of full-time degree programmes, the college offered training courses and business services to companies in the private and public sectors – locally, nationally and internationally. The college offered a large number of full time vocational 12-month courses targeted at young people who had successfully completed secondary school education. The college achieved the quality standard "Scottish Quality Management System" (SQMS) and had numerous other training and quality awards. Most of the students at the college progressed to the local Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde, Glasgow Caledonian and West of Scotland. Distributive Studies Students in the 1970s and 1980s completed a one-year vocational course and were awarded the Scottish National Certificates in Distribution Studies (Group Certificate) – this group certificate was issued by SCOTBEC (the Scottish Business Education Council) listing all individual subject (each of which had an SNC certificate separately) in the form of a single qualification – The SNC in Distributive Studies covering Distributive Law, Distributive Accountancy, Behavioural Science for Distribution, Distributive Studies and Communication Studies. The College also issued its own Certificate in Marketing aimed to be equivalent to that issued by the Institute of Marketing.
The college had over 500 staff. The principal since October 2007 was Paul Little.