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Sunday, October 27, 2013

BCTC - Birmingham Central Technical College

BCTC Certificate 1940 .

Birmingham Central Technical College

A School of Metallurgy formed in the Birmingham and Midland Institute in 1875. The Birmingham Municipal Technical School separated from the Institute in 1895, teaching chemistry, physics, metallurgy and electrical engineering. In 1911, commercial classes were introduced and grew into an independent School of Commerce by 1916. The technical school expanded, and by 1917 was also teaching botany and other subjects to trainee teachers.

In 1927 the Technical School changed its name to the Central Technical College to reflect its changing approach to teaching technology.

In 1951, the Technical College was renamed the College of Technology, Birmingham and work began on the Main Building at Gosta Green. In 1956, it became the first elite designated College of Advanced Technology (CAT) and underwent a major expansion. It moved into buildings that were constructed between 1949 and 1955 to a design by Ashley & Newman. Princess Margaret laid one of the first foundation stones at the base of the new building in 1951.

The building is one of Europe's largest freestanding brick buildings. In 1955, the College of Advanced Technology was opened by Her Majesty The Queen. The college expanded again to a design by the City Architect of Birmingham Alwyn Sheppard Fidler between 1957 and 1965.

The Birmingham Municipal Technical School in Suffolk Street, founded in 1895.[15]

Birmingham Municipal Technical School, Suffolk Street (f. 1895)

The College of Advanced Technology officially became the University of Aston in Birmingham on receipt of its Royal Charter on 22 April 1966 and the first Chancellor of the University, Lord Nelson of Stafford, was installed on 10 May.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Aston_University .

Birmingham Polytechnic ..

In the 1960s, changes were made to the higher education system creating an expansion of polytechnics as a more vocationally orientated alternative to the typical university.

Birmingham Polytechnic was designated as a polytechnic in 1971 and gained university status in 1992. Five universities in the city, the other four being Aston University, Birmingham City University, University of Birmingham, University College Birmingham, and Newman University.

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Birmingham Polytechnic

In the 1960s, changes were made to the higher education system creating an expansion of polytechnics as a more vocationally orientated alternative to the typical university.

The City of Birmingham Education Committee was invited to submit a scheme for the establishment of a polytechnic bringing together a number of different colleges in the city in 1967. Late in 1969, the post of director of the polytechnic was advertised.

Although the city lagged behind other parts of the country, Birmingham finally gained a polytechnic in 1971—then the 27th in the UK—designated by the Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher as the City of Birmingham Polytechnic. This was the second polytechnic in Birmingham, the first – Birmingham Polytechnic Institution – having existed in the mid-19th century for ten years.

Birmingham Polytechnic was designated as a polytechnic in 1971 and gained university status in 1992. Birmingham's polytechnic was formed initially out of five colleges. Some of the colleges' staff fought against the merger but later changed their minds. The colleges were:

Birmingham College of Art and Design (originally the Birmingham Government School of Design, founded in October 1843);
Birmingham School of Music (developed as a department of the Birmingham and Midland Institute around 1859);
Birmingham College of Commerce (established in the early 20th century as a branch school of the Birmingham Central Technical College, which went on to become Aston University);
South Birmingham Technical College (opened in 1961);
North Birmingham Technical College (formerly Aston Technical College, opened in 1966).

North Birmingham Technical College's new Perry Barr campus (which began construction in 1971) became the centre of the new Polytechnic, although the institution continued to have a number of different campuses spread across the city. This has sometimes been seen as a weakness of the polytechnic, with the dispersal of sites considered confusing to visitors.

In the early 1970s, the Perry Barr campus was the site of building work for what later became the centrepiece of the polytechnic: the Attwood and Baker buildings. Later in the 1970s, the campus was increased in size with the building of what later became the Cox, Dawson, Edge, Feeney and Galton buildings. In the early 1980s, the William Kenrick Library was added to the site. Other, smaller buildings were subsequently constructed, and the estate became known as the City North Campus of Birmingham City University.

Birmingham City University (abbrev. BCU) is a university in Birmingham, England. Initially established as the Birmingham College of Art with roots dating back to 1843. Birmingham Polytechnic was designated as a polytechnic in 1971 and gained university status in 1992. BCU is the second largest of five universities in the city, the other four being Aston University, University of Birmingham, University College Birmingham, and Newman University.

https://www.bcu.ac.uk/about-us/our-history .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytechnic_%28United_Kingdom%29 .

BRNC - Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth

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Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC), commonly known as Dartmouth, is the naval academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy. It is located on a hill overlooking the port of Dartmouth, Devon, England. Royal Naval officer training has taken place in Dartmouth since 1863. The buildings of the current campus were completed in 1905. Earlier students lived in two wooden hulks moored in the River Dart. Since 1998, BRNC has been the sole centre for Royal Naval officer training.

The college was originally known as the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (BRNC). As a Royal Naval shore establishment, it was later known also by the ship name HMS Britannia (a battleship called Britannia operated from 1904 to 1918). The college was re-named HMS Dartmouth in 1953, when the name Britannia was given to the newly launched royal yacht HMY Britannia. The training ship moored in the River Dart at Sandquay, a Sandown class minehunter formerly known as HMS Cromer, continues to bear the name Hindostan. As cadets at the college will be aware, there are 187 steps down from the college to Hindostan's mooring at Sandquay.

Cadets originally joined the Royal Naval College, Osborne, at the age of 13 for two years' study and work before joining Dartmouth. The Royal Naval College, Osborne closed in 1921.

During the WW2, after six Focke-Wulf aircraft bombed the College in September 1942, students and staff moved activities to Eaton Hall in Cheshire until the autumn of 1946. Two bombs had penetrated the College's main block, causing damage to the quarterdeck and surrounding rooms.

Britannia Royal Naval College became the sole naval college in the United Kingdom following the closures of the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, in 1994 and of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1998.

Military Colleges, UK

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Saturday, October 26, 2013

CAT - College of Advanced Technology

A college of advanced technology (CAT) was a type of higher education institution established in 1956 in England and Wales following the publication of a government white paper on technical education which listed 24 technical colleges in receipt of 75% grant for parts of their advanced work.

The government confirmed that the proportion of advanced work at these colleges should be increased so that they could develop as quickly as possible into colleges of advanced technology. Eventually ten of the 24 were confirmed as CATs. Birmingham College of Advanced Technology was the first to be so designated, in 1956.

Originally under the control of local education authorities, on 1 April 1962 the CATs were removed from local authority control and became autonomous national institutions funded directly by the Ministry of Education. Following the Robbins Report of 1963, the colleges of advanced technology were expanded and awarded university status in 1966, sometimes grouped together with other 1960s "plate glass universities".

CATs that became universities in England:

Birmingham CAT became Aston University (the first designated college of advanced technology)
Loughborough CAT became Loughborough University of Technology (afterwards Loughborough University)
Northampton CAT (London) became City University London (now City, University of London)
Chelsea CAT became Chelsea College of Science and Technology as part of the University of London then later was subsumed into King's College London
Battersea CAT became the University of Surrey
Brunel CAT became Brunel University
Bristol CAT became the Bath University of Technology in 1966 (afterwards University of Bath)
Welsh CAT (in Cardiff) became the University of Wales Institute of Science and technology (UWIST) before eventually merging with other institutions to become part of the University of Wales, then Cardiff University
Salford CAT (the Royal College of Advanced Technology) became the University of Salford
Bradford Institute of Technology became University of Bradford.

Cheltenham Ladies' College

Cheltenham Ladies' College, an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, was founded in 1853 after six individuals, including the Principal and Vice-Principal of Cheltenham College for Boys and four other men, decided to create a girls' school that would be similar to Cheltenham College for Boys. On 13 February 1854, the first 82 pupils began attending the school, with Annie Procter serving as the school's Principal. In 1858, upon Procter resigning from her position, the Principal's post was taken by Dorothea Beale, a prominent suffragist educator who introduced subjects such as maths and science, despite parental opposition. For those who wished to study further, Miss Beale also founded St Hilda's College, Oxford in 1893

External examiners were brought into College as early as 1863 and, over time, girls were encouraged to take public examinations, notably the Oxford Senior and the Cambridge Higher Local, which were broadly equivalent to today's GCSE and A Level qualifications.

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As College grew, its reputation spread both in this country and, eventually, throughout the British Empire. By 1900, the small and initially struggling day school had become a thriving community of over 1,000 pupils, with boarders, day girls and part-time students, studying from Kindergarten to Degree level. Miss Beale also established a teacher training school and by the end of her life in 1906, most of her teaching staff were former CLC pupils, as were 40 Head Teachers of girls' schools in Britain and around the world.

Lilian Faithfull, formerly President of the All-England Women's Hockey Association, was appointed Principal upon Miss Beale’s death. She was tasked with preserving her predecessor's great legacy, while managing the inevitable changes to come as College moved into the 20th century.

Miss Faithfull did much to develop sport in College and introduced the first College uniform. She also had the difficult task of steering College through the First World War. With characteristic energy and pragmatism, she threw College into war work and converted one of the College boarding houses into a Red Cross hospital.

The period between the two wars saw more girls than ever considering careers and it was the task of Miss Faithfull’s successor, Beatrice Sparks (Principal 1922 - 1937), to modernise the curriculum in line with the introduction of the School Certificate and Higher Certificate. In 1935, College's continued success was marked by the granting of a Royal Charter; it was the first girls' school to receive this honour since Queen Anne's reign.

The Second World War, like the First, had a major impact on College life. In September 1939, all College buildings were requisitioned by the War Office and lessons were relocated to army huts and on top of the temporarily boarded over swimming pool! In December 1940, CLC boarding house Bayshill Lawn was bombed, although fortunately it was empty at the time.

With the passing of post-war restrictions and shortages there was renewed scope for development and modernisation in College. The 1950s and 1960s saw refurbishment and the addition of new Science laboratories, along with the introduction of the Duke of Edinburgh scheme, work experience and community service. The curriculum continued to develop and in the 1980s Computer Science was also added.

https://www.cheltladiescollege.org/about-clc/history-of-college/ .

https://cheltenhamremembers.org.uk/wp-content/files/2018/08/A-Guide-to-CLC-Archive-Resources.pdf .

https://oxfordsummercourses.com/articles/cheltenham-ladies-college-a-brief-history/ .

https://www.soglos.com/culture/44091/Interview-with-Cheltenham-Ladies-Colleges-Archivist .

https://spartacus-educational.com/EDcheltenham.htm .

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1500040671 .

Cheltenham Remembers project:

https://cheltenhamremembers.org.uk/ .
https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/how-the-well-organised-women-of-cheltenham-contributed-to-the-war-effort/ .

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