Alumni Oral Histories

This project is a collaboration between two staff and a first-year student from the School of Education at Bath Spa University. It came out of conversations with students of the University who trained to be teachers at the then Newton Park College in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. 

We invited these alumni back for a day to talk to our current Education students. They got to hear first-hand what it was like to be a student then and shared with our visitors what aspects of student life, teaching and learning have changed and what has stayed much the same.

As part of the project, our students explored the Newton Park archives, including photographs, documents, newsletters and past students’ work.