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    Higher Education for Women in Great Britain
    Higher Education for Women in Great Britain
    Higher Education for Women in Great Britain
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    Higher Education for Women in Great Britain

    By Phoebe Sheavyn

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    This is an influential work in promoting higher education for women in England during the 1920s. It was a period of hope and new possibilities when women were granted permission to admit to colleges and universities. British literary scholar and feminist Phoebe Sheavyn provided essential details about the prevailing education system and listed career opportunities for women after higher education.
    Contents include:
    Introduction
    General Education System
    The Universities
    Careers for University Women
    Opportunities for Students from other Countries
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateMay 19, 2021
    ISBN4064066125424
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      Higher Education for Women in Great Britain - Phoebe Sheavyn

      Phoebe Sheavyn

      Higher Education for Women in Great Britain

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066125424

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION.

      THE GENERAL EDUCATION SYSTEM.

      THE UNIVERSITIES.

      CAREERS FOR UNIVERSITY WOMEN.

      WOMEN STUDENTS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.

      THE BRITISH FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN.

      INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN.

      INTRODUCTION.

      Table of Contents

      The movement for the education of girls is of recent growth, dating back less than a century, to the decade 1840-50. Before that time there was no public provision for them, educational endowments being used for boys only. The earliest tangible sign of the progress of the movement was the foundation in London of Queen's College, Bedford College and the North London Collegiate School for Girls, and in the provinces of the Cheltenham Ladies' College. This inaugurated the era of public secondary education for girls, who now have their large, well-equipped schools in every town.

      At first the education given was necessarily very simple; but as the schoolgirls of the new age grew up, the need for a more extended training became apparent. It was met partly by an extension of the teaching given in certain of the schools; partly by the establishment of a system of lectures for older girls, notably at Queen's College, London, and in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. Before long it became clear that some more systematic higher education must be provided, and efforts were made to enlist the sympathies of the Universities. University professors undertook to repeat their lectures for the benefit of girls; but the number of girls was for some time too few to finance these schemes, and it was apparent that either their numbers must be increased by the provision of residence, or expenses must be reduced by obtaining the admission of girls to the classes held for men. Both measures were attempted. A residential College for girls was established at Hitchin (1869), afterwards removed to Girton, near Cambridge (1873); Newnham Hall (later College) was founded in Cambridge in 1871; and in Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall (1878) and Somerville Hall (later College) (1879). Before long residence in or near London was provided by Bedford College, Westfield College, and the Royal Holloway College at Englefield Green in Surrey.

      Meanwhile, a great impetus had been given in 1878 to the higher education of women throughout England by the opening to them of the examinations and degrees of the University of London. This University was at that time purely an examining body, and teaching had

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