sentences:  The origins of the College go back to 1899, when the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames built Science and Art Schools and a Technical Institute on the present main site of the College in Kingston Hall Road.The Victorian home of Kingston Technical College (as the institution was then known) survived till the 1960s, when major reconstruction work followed a local reorganization of further and higher education.In 1962 Kingston Technical College split into the present college of further education and a college of technology, now Kingston University.