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Aberdeen College is the largest further education college in Scotland. It was formed from the amalgamation of the former Aberdeen Technical College, Aberdeen College of Commerce and Clinterty Agricultural College. The college has a number of different centres around Aberdeen, such as Altens and Gordon Centres and also provides training in a variety of areas outside the city. This article is about the country. ... Clinterty Agricultural College was a small further education college near Aberdeen in Scotland. ... For other uses, see Aberdeen (disambiguation). ...
Aberdeen College – Scotland’s largest college of further/higher education and vocational training – fulfils a critical role in developing the skills base and economy of Aberdeen and the North-east Scotland. Operating across four major subject areas: Arts, Communication & Social Science; Technology, Science, Sport & Leisure; Engineering, Computing and Business Studies and Professional Studies, Care and Service Industries, total full-time and part-time student enrolments currently number around 35,000.
"It also has the worst IT centre in Europe." says an anonymous source "and smelly toilets".
The Diocese of Aberdeen was first founded at Mortlach in Banffshire by Malcolm II in 1004 to celebrate his victory there over the Danes, but in 1137 David I transferred the bishopric to Old Aberdeen, and twenty years later St Machar's Cathedral, situated a few hundred yards from the Don, was begun.
Robert Gordon's College (originally Robert Gordon's Hospital) was founded in 1729 by the merchant Robert Gordon, grandson of the map maker Robert Gordon of Straloch, and was further endowed in 1816 by Alexander Simpson of Collyhill.
Aberdeen Grammar School, (now comprehensive, despite its name) founded in 1263 and one of the oldest schools in Britain, was removed in 1861-1863 from its old quarters in Schoolhill to a large new building, in the Scots Baronial style, off Skene Street.
ABERDEEN, GEORGE GORDON, IST EARL OF (1637-1720), lord chancellor of Scotland, son of Sir John Gordon, ist baronet of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, executed by the Presbyterians in 1644, was born on the 3rd of October 1637.
Aberdeen is served by the Caledonian, Great North of Scotland and North British railways (occupying a commodious joint railway station), and there is regular communication by sea with London and the chief ports on the eastern coast of Great Britain and the northern shores of the Continent.
Aberdeen was settled in 1880, and was chartered as a city in 1883.
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