Plans for a “live-learn” facility for Liverpool International College have been revealed.
The scheme comprises 45,000 sq ft of teaching space and 250 beds in the new Knowledge Quarter where Grove Street intersects Smithdown Lane.
Operated through a partnership between Kaplan and the University of Liverpool, LIC recruits and prepares more than 800 international students for entry into the university’s degree programmes each year with courses in academic skills, key subject knowledge and English language.
Knowledge Quarter Liverpool is a 450-acre urban innovation district and is home to some of the occupiers in science, health, technology, education, music and the creative and performing arts. The area has more than £1bn of new developments under way and a further £1bn in the pipeline.
Subject to planning, the facility is expected to open in 2019.
Leelee Yates, director of LIC, said: “We are currently located in the university’s Sir Alistair Pilkington Building in Mulberry Street. With the college growing and requiring more space and the university needing to increase its use of the building, this was the right time for us to develop our own purpose-built facility. Students are increasingly demanding when it comes to student experience, and this new facility will allow us to continue to attract the very best students from around the world to the city.”
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