Maria Grey Training College

Maria Grey Training College was a training college for female teachers from 1878-1976.

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History

The college was opened as the Teachers’ Training & Registration Society College on 1 May 1878 in the Clergy House, Skinner Street, Bishopsgate (now Pindar Street). The Teachers’ Training & Registration Society was created by the Women's Education Union to promote women’s right to education and the professional recognition of female teachers.[1] The Society was promoted by Maria Georgina Grey who had also been fundamental in the founding of the Union. In 1885 it moved to Fitzroy Square,[2] and in March 1886 it was renamed Maria Grey College after its founder.[1] In 1946 it moved to Twickenham. In 1976 the College merged with Borough Road College and Acton & Chiswick Polytechnic to form the West London Institute of Higher Education.[1] In 1995 the West London Institute of Higher Education became part of Brunel University.[3] The site was sold when the department moved to Uxbridge in 2005.[4]

Primary sources

The records of the College are now held in the Brunel University Archives.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c Brunel University. "Maria Grey Collection". http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/administration/infoaccess/archives/collections/mariagrey. Retrieved 2008-12-12. 
  2. ^ Laurence, Anne; Bellamy, Joan; Perry, Gillian (2000), Women, scholarship and criticism: gender and knowledge, c.1790-1900, Manchester University Press, p. 103, ISBN 9780719057205, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yInCeozo9pQC&pg=PA103 
  3. ^ Brunel University. "'History'". http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/history. Retrieved 2008-12-12. 
  4. ^ Brunel University. "'Maria Grey'". http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/history/mg. Retrieved 2009-02-29. 
  5. ^ Brunel University. "University Collections". http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/administration/infoaccess/archives/collections. Retrieved 2008-12-12. 

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