The Birkbeck Institute – The Story of London’s Evening University

Title : The Birkbeck Institute - The Story of London's Evening University  
Author : Fred McKenzie
Source : Windsor Magazine
Year Published : 1898
Page Count : 7
Image Count : 12
Word Count : 3,464
File Size in MB : 3.5
File Type : PDF

"The Birkbeck prefers to concentrate its strength on education, apart from purely technical teaching; and here it goes higher and further than others. It devotes itself to giving a really efficient secondary education. Teachers in day schools, civil servants, commercial clerks, business men, students for the learned professions, and others seeking to take a London University degree, find here the kind of assistance they require. In this its success is best proved by the actual results of its work. In the examinations held during the session of 1896-7 eighty students passed University of London examinations, of whom one took the London “M.A.” in Mental Science, thirty-four passed the London Intermediate examination in Medicine, one gained a Royal Academy Scholarship for Painting, and numerous students obtained certificates from the Science and Art Department, Society of Arts, Bankers' Institute, and other bodies. Several gained County Council exhibitions, or passed the Cambridge Higher Locals. The Art School..."