The college is the largest provider of further education (post-16) courses and work-based learning (apprenticeships) and—through University Centre Calderdale as part of a cooperation with Leeds Beckett University that began in 2006—the sole provider of higher education awards in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale.

Calderdale College is descended from Halifax Technical College, which formed from the Halifax Mechanics Institute (founded 1825) and the Halifax School of Art, Queens Road (founded 1859).

Construction work for Halifax Technical College began in 1893 and teaching in 1896 with one laboratory, a weaving shed and classrooms.

The college offered courses in textiles, engineering, chemistry, commerce and ‘women’s work’.

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