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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.
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 New College, Teachers College, Columbia University was an undergraduate teacher education college that existed from 1932 to 1939
Previously a community school administered by Durham County Council, [3] in June 2023 Wellfield School converted to academy status. [4] The school is now sponsored by the New College Durham Academies Trust.
It is situated to the north of Durham, and is adjacent to Pity Me and Newton Hall. It had a population of 5,404 in the 2011 Census. [1] With a slight increase to 6,112 in a 2018 local report. [2] It is the location of New College Durham, the major further education establishment of the city.
Collingwood College is one of the constituent colleges of Durham University. Founded in 1972, it was the first Durham college that was purposely mixed-sex . It has over 1500 undergraduate students and just under 290 graduate students as of the year 2023/24, making it the largest college in Durham.
University College, the oldest of the 17 Durham Colleges. Durham operates a collegiate structure similar to that of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, in that all colleges at Durham, being constituent colleges of a "recognised body", are "listed bodies" [1] in the Education (Listed Bodies) (England) Order 2013 made under the Education Reform Act 1988.
The annual Durham University Volunteering Awards recognise individuals, teams, colleges and projects across several categories. [325] Durham University Charity Kommittee (or DUCK) is the university's student rag week [326] and the fundraising arm of the Durham Students Union. Originally a week-long event, DUCK now has events raising money for ...