| Description | The Ethel Wormald College of Education papers consists of just fourteen items. This includes: The Scarlet Worm, a hand illustrated magazine by students; two prospectuses; three Music Teacher magazines, a monthly magazine produced by staff from Ethel Wormald College and other insitutes; three Words and Music magazines, containing advertisements for performance of poetry, prose and music at the Mount Pleasant Campus; A History by A.D. Walters, with a discussion of the history of education in Liverpool and the formation of its Colleges and Universities; one copy of Ethel Wormald College Magazine; two Broadside Student Magazines of creative writing; and a book by Norman Garner on Teaching in the Urban Community School, which makes reference to Liverpool Insitutions such as Everyman Theatre. |
| AdminHistory | The Liverpool Day College was established in the 1960s to attract mature students into the teaching profession. It was later renamed after Ethel Wormald, a councillor who had a significant impact on education both locally and nationally. She became Dame Ethel Wormald and Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Ethel Wormald College was located in an urban environment, a former hospital building on Mount Pleasant. It was unlike many of the residential colleges which recruited students from Sixth Form Colleges. The College's first intake was in January 1966, recieving 800 applicants for its three-year trading certificate course for Primary Education, for which there were only 80 places. Such demand justified the Education Committee's decision to establish the College. The students were mainly women in their 30s who had work experience with children, the health service, civil service, or in clerical positions. The College had innovative teaching schemes made for strong collegiate culture and identity with an active Students' Union. In the College's later years, it diversified to contribute to a course at the new Liverpool Polytechnic in Libarianship. It also developed four-year BEd degree courses. The college saw its last certificate course in 1976 following the government White Papers in 1972, it began to merge with C F Mott College, forming the City of Liverpool College of Higher Education (COLCHE) in 1978. A part-time in-service BEd was established in the Ethel Wormald Building which eventually became part of the Liverpool Polytechnic estate when COLCHE joined the Liverpool Polytechnic.
For more infomation of the history of the Ethel Wormald College of Education, see:
Webster, R., and Wilkie, S., 2017. The Making of a Modern University: Liverpool John Moores University (London: Third Millenium Publishing), pp.82-85. A copy of this can be made available via LJMU Special Collections & Archives. |
| CustodialHistory | Kindly donated to LJMU Special Collections & Archives by Roger Webster in 2018. Before donating this material to our collections, it was used by Roger Webster as part of his research in writing his book Webster, R., and Wilkie, S., 2017. The Making of a Modern University: Liverpool John Moores University (London: Third Millenium Publishing). |