TheFree Church Training College was an educational institution inGlasgow,Scotland. It was established by theFree Church of Scotland in 1845 as a college forteacher training.
In 1836,David Stow had established anormal school inGlasgow but, following theDisruption of 1843, a legal ruling of 1845 compelled adherents of the Free Church to resign from, what had become, state-funded teaching posts. Stow established a new college in Glasgow as theFree Church Normal Seminary. In 1900, it became theUnited Free Church Training College when the Free Church merged with theUnited Presbyterian Church of Scotland. The college came under secular control in 1907, and merged with the Glasgow Church of Scotland Training College to form the Glasgow Provincial Training College, later renamed theJordanhill College of Education.[1] This in turn became part of theUniversity of Strathclyde in 1993.
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