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New College Durham was formed by the merger of Neville's Cross College in Neville's Cross and Durham Technical College in Framwellgate Moor in 1977. [1] Neville's Cross College was a teacher training college established in 1921 by Durham County Council. It initially only admitted women but became mixed in 1963.
New College, Durham, or Durham College, was a university institution set up by Oliver Cromwell, to provide an alternative to (and break the effective monopoly of) the older University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. It also had the aim of bringing university education to Northern England.
East Durham College, Houghall campus. New College Durham is the city's largest college of further education. It was founded in 1977 as a result of a merger between Neville's Cross College of Education and Durham Technical College. The college operated on two main sites near the city of Durham: Neville's Cross and Framwellgate Moor. The site at ...
Van Mildert College was established as a men's college in 1965 following recommendations of the Robbins Report looking into the future of higher education in the UK. In 1963, King's College in Newcastle declared itself independent from the University of Durham, [11] meaning new colleges were required to meet the new university places that the Government wished to create.
New College, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University , Phoenix, Arizona Before it was named in 1639, Harvard College was often referred to as "the New College"; it is debatable whether or not this was ever a name in the usual sense of the word
Lent term, named for Lent, the six-week fasting period before Easter, is the name of the winter academic term at the following British universities: University of Cambridge [ 1 ] Canterbury Christ Church University [ 2 ]
The temporary name "South College" was assigned pending selection of a final name, and was used in advertisements for the new college's first principal. In June 2019, Durham Students' Union assembly voted to lobby for the college to be named after the late politician and Durham graduate Mo Mowlam . [ 12 ]
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