Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College

Identity area

Type of entity

Corporate body

Authorized form of name

Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College

Parallel form(s) of name

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      Other form(s) of name

      • Established Church Normal Seminary

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      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1845-1907

      History

      The Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College, or Established Church Normal Seminary, as it was known in the early days, opened on a small scale in 1845 in the Dundas Vale building which it had inherited from the Glasgow Normal Seminary. Teaching continued under the direction of Mr Forbes (a former teacher in the Glasgow Normal Seminary model school) and it was several years before the college again reached the standard required by the Committee of Council on Education for recognition as a training college. Relations with the nearby Glasgow Free Church Training College were strained initially but became more friendly in later years. The college flourished in the latter years of the 19th century, notably under the rectorships of Dr David Ross 1877-1899 and Alex M. Williams 1899-1907. The increasingly secular nature of education and society by the late 19th century led the churches to withdraw from teacher training and in 1907 the Church of Scotland and United Free Church Training Colleges amalgamated under the control of the Glasgow Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers.

      Places

      Glasgow, Scotland

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      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow (1907-1993)

      Identifier of related entity

      C0049

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Dates of relationship

      1907

      Description of relationship

      The Church of Scotland Training College merged with the Free Church Training College to form the Glasgow Provincial Training College (later renamed Jordanhill College of Education).

      Related entity

      Glasgow Normal Seminary (1837-1845)

      Identifier of related entity

      C0036

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Dates of relationship

      1845

      Description of relationship

      The Training College opened in the Dundas Vale building previously occupied by the Normal Seminary.

      Related entity

      Glasgow Free Church Training College (1845-1907)

      Identifier of related entity

      C0035

      Category of relationship

      associative

      Dates of relationship

      1907

      Description of relationship

      The two training colleges merged to form the Glasgow Provincial Training College.

      Related entity

      McLellan, Sarah Murie, 1884-1956, teacher (1884-1956)

      Identifier of related entity

      P1202

      Category of relationship

      associative

      Dates of relationship

      1903-1905

      Description of relationship

      Sarah McLellan was a student at the Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College.

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      Authority record identifier

      C0034

      Institution identifier

      GB 249

      Rules and/or conventions used

      ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2003); Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names, National Council on Archives (1997).

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      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      Created by Victoria Peters, December 2009.

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