History
It began as the Ilkeston College of Further Education in September 1953, which became South East Derbyshire College of Further Education in 1974 when it opened a site in Heanor on the former Heanor Grammar School. Heanor Grammar School closed in 1976. It had around 550 boys and girls. Geoffrey Stone was the headmaster for twenty years and became Principal of the new college.
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