Teacher Training at Cambridge : The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes

This title focuses on two educationalists, Oscar Browning (1837-1923) and Elizabeth Hughes (1852-1925) who were the principals of the two separate day training colleges for men and women at Cambridge.Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes were extraordinary, larger-than-life characters.

Their ideals about what teaching should be are well worth re-visiting.

The colleges they set up at Cambridge acted as the models for training colleges all over the country and they were an influence on the national scene.

They visited and lectured in Europe, America and Japan, they also had an international influence on the provision of teacher training across the world.