Emmanuel City Technology College
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Emmanuel City Technology College is based in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. Since its foundation in 1990 as a City Technology College, Emmanuel has grown into a College of 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 hosted a conference by Answers In Genesis (http://www.answersingenesis.org/), an organisation which promotes such views.