Higher Education for Women in Great Britain — John Shaqi
Higher Education for Women in Great BritainSheavyn, Phoebe
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Higher Education for Women in Great Britain
Sheavyn, Phoebe
Education, Higher -- Great Britain; Women -- Education (Higher) -- Great Britain; Women college students -- Great Britain
_Subjects Studied._—The greater number of women students enter the
Faculty of Arts, but large numbers also enter for Science and for
Medicine; a few for Commerce, Technology, Law, etc. The study of
Medicine can now be carried on under the same conditions as for men in
practically all the modern Universities. In some, however, situated
in comparatively small towns, the clinical facilities are inadequate,
and it is customary to continue clinical study in one of the larger
Medical Schools, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, or Manchester.
Edinburgh, with a long-established prestige in medicine, attracts large
numbers of students. Tradition inherited from early days of controversy
has long limited the opportunities of women in Edinburgh, but a more
liberal policy now admits them to substantial privileges.
In London, the position of medical study is peculiar. It is mainly
in the hands of ancient Medical Schools, each with its own large
Hospital—Bartholomew's, St. George's, Guy's, St. Thomas's, Westminster,
etc.—out of which, in fact, the Teaching School has developed. These
great Medical Schools followed the policy of the University of
Edinburgh, opposing to the admission of women such relentless hostility
that eventually the women had to create and finance a separate school.
Thus came into being the London School of Medicine for Women, which
succeeded in making a working arrangement for clinical instruction at
the Royal Free Hospital. Though women are now admitted to the Medical
Schools of University and King's Colleges, and the Charing Cross
Hospital, most of the great Hospital Medical Schools are still closed
to them, and the London School of Medicine for Women remains the chief
centre for the medical education of women in London.
Pharmacy is taught at most of the Universities, but all pharmacists
must prepare, at the Universities or in special schools, for
examinations held by an outside body—the Pharmaceutical Society.
Degrees in Dentistry are conferred by some Universities, and an
excellent training is provided, but the profession of Dentistry is
still unregulated by the State, and unqualified persons freely
practise. This makes Dentistry less popular as a profession among
persons of University education; but there is a great field for
qualified dentists, and women would do well to enter upon it in larger
numbers.
Languages studied at the Universities are Greek, Latin, French, German,
Oriental languages, and more recently, Italian, Spanish, and Russian.
The teaching in modern languages is carried on partly by native,
partly by foreign lecturers; except in Oriental languages, which are
practically always taught by Englishmen. There is a tendency observable
at present in the Secondary Schools, and in the Universities, to give
less attention than hitherto to Greek and Latin.
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