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Bretton Hall College of Education was a higher education college in West Bretton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It opened as a teacher training college in 1949 with awards from the University of Leeds. The college merged with the University of Leeds in 2001 and the campus closed in 2007.
Bretton Hall College was founded in 1947 by Sir Alec Clegg, Chief Education Officer of the West Riding of Yorkshire County Council. It first began as a training college for teachers of music, art and drama with courses awarded by the University of Leeds.
26 de sept. de 2020 · Its occupants consisted of the principal, six tutors (in Education, English, Art, Music and PE) and 56 students (26 women and 30 men). Despite continually shaky finances, the college developed: by 1963 there were clusters of modernist buildings all across the site, including eleven “hostels” as accommodation for up to 300 students.
19 de ene. de 2024 · Bretton Hall College of Education was a higher education college in West Bretton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It opened as a teacher training college in 1949 with awards from the University of Leeds.
By engaging physically, mentally and emotionally with the architecture and spaces of Bretton Hall College on a daily basis, the students become the spaces in between these formal structures of the College.
This chapter discusses the formation of Bretton Hall College as a teacher training college for the arts, and how this influential creative institution shaped teacher training through the arts from 1949 in the West Riding.
Bretton Hall is a country house in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It housed Bretton Hall College from 1949 until 2001 and was a campus of the University of Leeds (2001–2007).
