Emmanuel City Technology College
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Emmanuel City Technology College is a secondary school based in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear in England. It was founded in 1990 as a City Technology College. Emmanuel now instructs 1250 students, aged between 11 and 19, and has almost 100 staff working on the purpose-built site.
Students come from a wide variety of socio-economic backgrounds but predominantly from the inner-city areas within Gateshead and Central and West Newcastle upon Tyne.
The school was at the centre of a storm of protests from scientists and educationalists when it was revealed that the senior management were sympathetic to Young Earth creationism and had allowed its hall to be rented by Answers In Genesis, an organisation which promotes such views.
Websites
- The BBC, BBC item about Emmanuel College and Dawkins
- The Guardian, UK newspaper article about creationism and Emmanuel College
- cloudsoup UK blog which broke the original story about creationist influences at the school