Garnett College

GarnettCollege

Garnett College was a higher education college in London specialising in further and higher education lecturer training, offering training for lecturers in further and higher education colleges. Students had to be at least 25 years old and be qualified in their teaching subject.

It was opened in 1946 and took the name Garnett College in 1953. It moved from north London to Roehampton in southwest London in 1963. In 1986 it merged with Thames Polytechnic (later the University of Greenwich) and the students were moved to a site in Avery Hill.

It offered undergraduate and postgraduate courses and was the main training centre for training lecturers working in teacher- training colleges (then known as Colleges of Higher Education) including its own staff.

There were three other centres in England also specialising in training further education lecturers, in Bolton, Huddersfield and Wolverhampton, all now universities. In Scotland only part-time lecturer training courses were offered, at Jordanhill College.

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