Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Established Church Normal Seminary
Identifiers for corporate bodies
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
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Related entity
Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow (1907-1993)
Identifier of the related entity
C0049
Category of the relationship
temporal
Dates of the 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 the related entity
C0036
Category of the relationship
temporal
Dates of the 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 the related entity
C0035
Category of the relationship
associative
Dates of the relationship
1907
Description of relationship
The two training colleges merged to form the Glasgow Provincial Training College.
Related entity
McLellan, Sarah M., fl. 1903-1917, student at Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College (fl. 1903-1917)
Identifier of the related entity
P1202
Category of the relationship
associative
Dates of the relationship
1903-1905
Description of relationship
Sarah McLellan was a student at the Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College.
Access points area
Occupations
Control area
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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Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Created by Victoria Peters, December 2009.