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Green plaque at Bedford Square, London. The college was founded by Elizabeth Jesser Reid (née Sturch) in 1849, a social reformer and anti-slavery activist, who had been left a private income by her late husband, Dr John Reid, which she used to patronise various philanthropic causes.
Bedford College, London, a university college in London, England, founded 1849, merged into Royal Holloway College 1985 Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title.
Part of Bedford College, the sixth form centre derives from the college's existing sixth form provision. A-Levels and Technical Diplomas were previously offered at the college's main site. In the summer of 2012, Bedford College leased the old Bedford High School site on Bromham Road, after the school had closed. The Bedford Sixth Form has ...
In August 2009, it was announced that Shuttleworth College had become part of Bedford College. Shuttleworth College had previously been part of Writtle College. [6] In September 2012, Bedford College leased the site of the former Bedford High School for a campus in the north of Bedford town centre. Bedford High School closed over the summer of ...
The teacher-training colleges left De Montfort in 2006 and merged with the University of Luton which changed its name to University of Bedfordshire. Between 1940 and 1978 women students at the then Bedford College of Physical Education studied three year programmes in physical education but although these were well-regarded, the programmes were ...
Briggs taught at Bedford School 1965–87 (housemaster 1977–87), then moved to be headmaster of William Hulme's Grammar School 1987–97. He was principal of Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar in Negri Sembilan, Malaysia 1997–2005.
In 1849, Reid founded Bedford College at 47 Bedford Square in the Bloomsbury area of London. [5] The college was a women-only higher education institution that aimed to provide a liberal and non-sectarian education for female students – something no other institution in the United Kingdom offered at the time. Bedford College played a leading ...
Dorothy Enid Wedderburn (née Barnard, formerly Cole; 18 September 1925 – 20 September 2012) [1] [2] was Principal of Bedford College, part of the University of London, and after the merger with Royal Holloway College, another college of the university, was the first principal of the combined institution.