Education Minister the Hon. Clarence Terceira revealed this week.

The move will not only benefit faculty, staff, and students still at the college's Robert's Avenue campus, Dr. Terceira said, but it would also mean that the Education Ministry could consolidate its offices scattered throughout the Island at the old college site in Devonshire.

Since 1986 the college has been working to take all of its facilities to the Stonington campus on South Shore Road in Paget.

All of its buildings, except the academic building for arts and science students and the technology building, are there.

The sprawling Paget site includes a student centre, administration building, a 24,000-square-foot library, and the college's first faculty centre which is scheduled to open later this month.

But Dr. Terceira said he would like to see the college consolidated "as soon as possible''.

He noted that 180 full-time students and 1,000 part-timers still had to attend classes at Robert's Avenue.

But he said construction of the academic building to be called North Hall and a gymnasium should start no later than the first week of April, next year.

And by 1996, Dr. Terceira added, the academic and technology buildings would be completed and with all the students at Stonington, the college would have an enrolment of 650 full-time students and 4,000 part-time students.

"It is going to be a campus which will be the envy of countries many, many times our size, and with many, many times our resources,'' he said.

Both president of the college's board of governors Lt. Col. Michael Darling and college president Mr. George Cook agreed.

Speaking on behalf of the faculty and staff, Dr. Cook said: "They're absolutely delighted that a definite time for consolidation has been set.'' Lt.Col. Darling said consolidation of the college would not only boost the morale of faculty and staff, it would also help the college save money that was normally spent on upgrading the old college buildings.

"I'm excited (about consolidation) because we have all the student facilities over here and only half the students are here, so they are not being fully utilised,'' he added.