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The university has origins tracing back to 1840 as a teacher training college, [2] but was established in 2005. Winchester University is a member of The Cathedrals Group (officially the Council of Church Universities and Colleges or CCUC), an association of universities and university colleges in the United Kingdom.
Winchester College is an English public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day attendees, in Winchester, Hampshire, England.
During his time there, he introduced summer schools for colonial administrators, expanded adult education programs, and played a key role in establishing a residential college for women. [3] In 1944, he delivered the Rede Lecture at Cambridge on Plato and modern education [4] and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1944 ...
James too was educated at Winchester College, winning the top scholarship to gain a fully-funded place there in 1954. [1] [3] [2] He won another scholarship to Winchester College's sister foundation, New College, Oxford. At the University of Oxford he gained a double first class degree in mods and greats, a humanities course centred on Latin ...
The "School" building, 17th century. As the college was a religious as well as educational establishment, it was threatened with closure during Henry VIII's reign. In 1535, a visitation was made to assess the college's assets, after which some of Winchester's valuable land assets near London were seized and exchanged for assets of similar size elsewhere in the country, depriving the college of ...
The teacher training and art programmes were immediately taken over by nearby education providers, including the University of Southampton, Chichester Institute of Higher Education (now University of Chichester and King Alfred's College, Winchester. The college campus was immediately taken over by the University of Southampton and became a ...
People educated at Winchester College, in Hampshire, England, are known as Old Wykehamists in honour of the school's founder, William of Wykeham (1320–1404).
After his retirement in 1984, Rose remained in close contact with many former students and colleagues. [9] In addition to his numerous writing projects, he was involved in a research project of alumni of the University of Winchester aimed at assembling a collective portrait of the students of Winchester Training College (the former name of King Alfred's College) who served in the World War I.