Jordanhill College
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Template:Expert Image:Jordanhill college.jpg Jordanhill College, in Jordanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, is now home to the Faculty of Education of the University of Strathclyde. Within the faculty, departments include Childhood and Primary Studies, Creative and Aesthetic Studies, Curricular Studies, Educational and Professional Studies, and Sport, Culture and the Arts.
The campus also hosts the Glasgow School of Social Work, jointly with the University of Glasgow.
Iain Smith is Dean of Education, with vice deans Anne Hughes, Dr P Dougall and Professor Effie Maclellan.
The campus has 17 buildings and 4 separate parking lots.
History
The site began as a teacher training college for Glasgow, the successor to Church of Scotland and Free Church teacher training colleges in the area. It trained both male and female candidates for the teaching profession, with students typically going on to teaching jobs in Scotland. As well as generalist teaching, Jordanhill College was also the location of the Scottish School of Physical Education, the centre for the training of male specialist physical education teachers in Scotland from 1931 to 1987.
In 1988, the demonstration school attached to the teacher training college, known as Jordanhill College School, separated from the College to form Jordanhill School. In 1993 the college itself merged with the University of Strathclyde, the Jordanhill campus subsequently serving as home of the Education Faculty.
The future of the Jordanhill campus is now in doubt. The University of Strathclyde is keen to consolidate its activity on its main campus in Glasgow's city centre, and has already tabled plans to sell the Jordanhill site off and construct new buildings to house the Faculty of Education, possibly on George St.
External links
- Strathclyde Faculty of Education
- Satellite view of college on Google Local (UK) (requires Javascript)