Hild Bede College
| College of St Hild and St Bede | |
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| University of Durham | |
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| Coordinates | 54°46′39″N 1°33′53″W / 54.7775°N 1.564815°WCoordinates: 54°46′39″N 1°33′53″W / 54.7775°N 1.564815°W |
| Motto | Eadem mutata resurgo |
| Motto in English | I rise again changed but the same |
| Established | 1975 (precursors in 1839 and 1858) |
| Named for | The Venerable Bede & St Hild |
| Principal | Jan Clarke |
| Undergraduates | 1123 |
| Postgraduates | 111 |
| Senior tutor | Laura Todd |
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 Location in Durham, England
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The College of St Hild and St Bede, also known as Hild Bede, is a college of Durham University in England. It is the University's second largest collegiate body, with over 1000 students. The co-educational college was formed in 1975 following the merger of two much older single-sex institutions, the College of the Venerable Bede for men and St Hild's College for women.
Hild Bede is neither a Bailey nor a Hill college, and is situated on the banks of the River Wear between Durham's 'peninsula' and Gilesgate.
The College of the Venerable Bede, for men, was founded in 1838 with a small number of trainee schoolmasters. The college was expanded greatly over the next few decades with the assistance of trade unionist and future local MP William Crawford, who would later become the college's treasurer. Its sister institution, St Hild's College, was opened for the education of women on an adjacent site in 1858. Both colleges initially specialised in teacher training but in 1892 for Bede and 1896 for Hild they became associated with the federal University of Durham, offering B.A. and B.Sc. degrees alongside teaching in education. Graduates of St Hild's were the first female graduates from Durham in 1898. The Chapel of the Venerable Bede, completed in 1939 to celebrate Bede College's centenary, was designed by Paul Edward Paget.
The two colleges retained links throughout the next century with shared teaching and facilities. In the 1960s they constructed the shared Caedmon Complex. It was then that it was decided that the colleges should be formally merged and in 1975 they became the unitary College of St. Hild and St. Bede, a recognised college of the university. In 1979 Hild Bede joined the College Council, becoming a full constituent college of the university and ceasing to award its own PGCE qualifications. At this point some of the College buildings (including much of the teaching facilities of the Bede site) were occupied by the University's Department of Education, whilst the College centred its academic administration on the old Hild's site.
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