The college has links with Ruskin College in Oxford and the City Lit in London.

BBC: Homeless sign up for Recovery College

Mr Prescott, as he then was, honed by his time as a shop steward in the National Union of Seamen and a spell at Ruskin College in Oxford, soon made his mark on the national stage.

BBC: The John Prescott story

IR I am writing in protest at the sensationalised and inaccurate innuendo of your article on Ruskin College (September 18th).

ECONOMIST: Letters | The

He was first elected to the Commons in 1970, after a career in the merchant navy, where he had been a leading activist in the National Union of Seamen, and study at Oxford's Ruskin College.

BBC: John Prescott

His father, Arthur Jenkins, worked in the coal mines from the age of 12 for 24 years with a two-year break at Ruskin, an Oxford college for working people, and in 1935 became a Labour member of Parliament.

ECONOMIST: Roy Jenkins