| AdminHistory | C F Mott College of Education, also known as C F Mott Training College and C F Mott Teacher Training College, was founded in 1945 to tackle the shortage of trained teachers after World War Two. The College was named in recognition of Charles Francis Mott, who had been an esteemed Director of Education for the City of Liverpool from 1922-1945. The College was originally a member of a consortium of training colleges managed by Liverpool and Manchester Universities, and initially a women's college which only offered teacher training and awarded Certificates of Education, but was eventually instrumental in implementing a pilot scheme which offered a four term year which was monitored for its its success by the Department for Education and Science (DES).
In 1960, the College's name changed to The City of Liverpool C F Mott Training College, eventually becoming the City of Liverpool College of Higher Education (known as C.O.L.C.H.E. or COLCHE) and in the early 1960s switched to co-educational and began to admit male students. By 1978, the College offered a wider portfolio of degree subjects in the arts, humanities, social sciences and science, and had become known for its groundbreaking multi-disciplinary degrees.
In 1983, COLCHE was one of the largest institutions to merge with the Liverpool Polytechnic, which brought many new areas of expertise to the Polytechnic, notably in the arts and humanities, including English, Cultural History, Media, Criminology, Drama, as well as strengthening established areas such as Psychology, Sociology, Art and Design and Geography.
For more infomation of the history of the C F Mott 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.
The full archive for the C F Mott College of Education is held at Knowsley Archives: https://archives.knowsley.gov.uk/ |
| 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). |