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2 unusual facts about Institute of Education


Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl

Institute of Education Archives, Girls' Day School Trust collection 'Katherine, Duchess of Atholl', 1960.

Patricia Symmonds

She was educated at Queen's College, Barbados, and travelled to the United Kingdom to study at the University of Reading and the Institute of Education.


Carolyn Quinn

She trained as a teacher, gaining a PGCE at the Institute of Education in London before becoming a French teacher at a London comprehensive, but gave this up to be a ward clerk at Charing Cross Hospital.

Fielding Reginald West

Following the war he moved to London where he attended the Regent Street Polytechnic and London Day Training College, before taking up employment as a schoolteacher in at the London County Council West Kensington Central School.

Harry Nkumbula

From Makerere, Nkumbula went on to study for and received a diploma from the Institute of Education, University of London.

Malet Street

In 1938, the Institute of Education moved from Southampton Row to the University of London Senate House complex on Malet Street.

Philip Hartog

Deeply impressed by his experience of the need for systematic education research, he obtained from the Leverhulme Trust in 1940 a grant of £2,000 to the University of London Institute of Education for this purpose.


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Aleks Danko

He was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art (University of South Australia) and the Hawthorn Institute of Education.

B. Venkateshwarlu

He worked as Reporter in Eenadu Telugu news daily from 1989 to 1993, later he worked as Script Writer in State Institute of Education Technology (SIET), Doordarshan (a UNESCO aided Educational Project).

Children's culture

A research review done on behalf of Ofcom, an independent regulator in the U.K. communications industry, scholars from the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media Institute of Education, University of London researchers reviewed literature relating to children’s media literacy focusing on the media formats of television, radio, internet, and the mobile telephone.

Christabel Burniston

Burniston was educated at Chapel Allerton school and Leeds Institute of Education, where she gained a first-class Froebel teaching certificate and a speech and drama qualification.

EPPI-Centre

The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre) is part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Indian Institute of Technology Patna

The Indian Institute of Technology Patna (abbreviated IIT Patna or IITP) is an autonomous institute of education and research in science, engineering and technology located in Patna, India.

Leah Marangu

She has served Kenya in various capacities including Commission for Higher Education (CHE), Egerton University Council, National Council of Science and Technology, Kenya Bureau of Standards, Kenya Institute of Education (KIE), Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR), Inter University Council for East Africa (IUCEA), Taskforce on Performance Contract among other bodies.

Marc Tucker

He previously served as executive director at Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy; president at the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; associate director at the National Institute of Education, U.S. Department of Education; and a professor of education at the University of Rochester.

Marjorie Bean

She attended Wilberforce University (in Ohio), Columbia University's Teachers College (in New York City) and the Institute of Education at the University of London.

Mater Dei Institute of Education

In 2008 the relationship linking Dublin City University with All Hallows, St. Patrick's College of Education, Drumcondra and Mater Dei Institute of Education was revised.

Randy Horton

A top level cricketer offered trials to play for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Horton turned down the opportunity to play English County cricket and Football League football for Huddersfield Town to stay in a warmer climate following completing his Oxford University Institute of Education Teacher Training Certificate from Culham College in Oxfordshire, England.

Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet

In retirement Adam became Chairman and Director General of the British Council, Chairman of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO),Principal of the Working Men's College, and sat on the governing bodies of London University's Birkbeck College and Institute of Education.

Westminster College, Oxford

Following the move, the college's qualifications were validated by the University of Oxford through its Institute of Education and, later, its Department of Education.