...for writing down the headings. Further, he had short essays written every week on a question he 1 " The North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women " ; cf. James Stuart, Reminiscences, p. 157. had treated ; both of which proved so useful that the...

...officially adopted at Oxford, was closely connected in Professor Stuart's experience with two bodies : the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women and the workmen employed in the railway works at Crewe. From that day to this both types of student...

...opened a day school at Liverpool in 1841. Becoming interested in the general subject of education, the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women was founded through her efforts, and from this sprang the idea of the Cambridge higher local examinations....

...co.operative societies, by their origin and their aims, are bound to provide." Before this, in common with the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women and the Trades Council of Nottingham, the co-operators of Rochdale had helped to suggest the form and...

...influence on education. It is impossible to suppose that an income of £30,000 or £40,000 a year con be profitably expended upon the education of less...such as were attending the Mechanics' Institute at 1 Sewell, Suggestions for the Extension of the University. Crewe and the Pioneers' Hull at Rochdale,...

...short courses to women teachers and senior school-girls. The suggestion led in 1867 to the formation of the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women, of which Mrs Josephine Butler and Miss Clough were respectively president and secretary. James Stuart,...

...aided in 1868 in establishing Girton College, at Cambridge, England. Anne Jemima Clough founded in 1867 the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women, and in 1875 the Newnham College for Women. The name of Sophie Smith is remembered as the founder of...

...far from being the case. It was established by the University of Cambridge partly on the initiative of the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women, and it is essentially a movement for extending the knowledge and culture to be found in the Universities...

...universally called, began to evolve the whole modern system in response to an invitation received from the "North of England Council for promoting the Higher Education of Women," of which Mrs Josephine Butler and Miss AJ Clough were respectively President and Secretary. The first...

...responding to the requests made by working men, particularly the Trades Council of Nottingham, and by the North of England Council for promoting the Higher Education of Women, had induced the University of Cambridge to found the University Extension movement. The early lecturers...