Froebel College


Froebel College is one of the four constituent colleges of the University of Roehampton.

History

The college was founded as a women's teacher training college in 1892 by followers of Friedrich Fröbel. The Froebel Society had been formed in 1874 and in 1892 Julia Salis Schwabe led an initiative to found a college for training teachers. It was imperative that the trainee teachers should be allowed to practice whilst they were learning so a school/kindergarten was established in parallel. The college became coeducational in 1965.
In 1975, the college became part of the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, which became Roehampton University in 2004.

People associated with the college

Notable alumna