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Buckinghamshire New University (BNU) is a public university in Buckinghamshire, England, with campuses in High Wycombe, Aylesbury, Uxbridge and Great Missenden.The institution dates from 1891, when it was founded as the School of Science and Art, and has since then has variously been known as Wycombe Technical Institute, High Wycombe College of Technology and Art and the Buckinghamshire ...
The university was renamed Buckinghamshire New University in 2007, [11] and the university closed its campus at Newland Park on 1 August 2009. [12] The university sold Newland Park to Comer Group on 1 July 2011, and, in 2012, Newland Park House and gardens were leased to an events and weddings company. [9]
Aylesbury UTC is a university technical college (UTC) which opened in September 2013 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. [1] In November 2021, the college joined a Multi-Academy Trust. In 2022, the school underwent a rebrand and name-change from Bucks UTC. The school offers courses in Digital and Health and Social Care, for 14–19 year olds.
The first infant school was founded in New Lanark, Scotland, in 1816. [1] It was followed by other philanthropic infant schools across the United Kingdom. [2] [3] Early childhood education was a new concept at the time [4] and seen as a potential solution to social problems related to industrialisation. [5]
The University of Buckingham (UB) is a non-profit private university in Buckingham, England, and the oldest of the country's six private universities. [a] It was founded as the University College at Buckingham (UCB) in 1973, admitting its first students in 1976. It was granted university status by royal charter in 1983.
Involving mothers in education, Harrison and Putnam founded the Chicago Kindergarten Club in 1883, influenced by the book Mothers at Play by Friedrich Fröbel. [5] In 1886, Harrison founded a training school for kindergarten teachers in Chicago. Intrigued by the ideas used by a German woman working at her school, Harrison decided to find out more.
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The school's earliest recorded reference occurs in 1423. A very small establishment at first, the school taught only six poor boys. Although Buckingham's citizens supported Catherine of Aragon and her daughter Mary Tudor, and were opposed to the Reformation, the Chantry Chapel in which the Royal Latin School was based, rather than being destroyed by Edward VI (as many similar establishments ...