Women in education is an important topic to understand the struggles that women faced in getting the education that a lot of girls and young women today take for granted.

Thinking about questions for the project I was thinking of looking at the situation of women in education and how this changed over time. So for example, in Southlands, there was at one point in the early years over 150 women sharing 2 bathrooms and looking at the effect events and experiences like this had on the women in this training college. Or looking into the strict codes of conduct and rules they had to follow especially in comparing these to women’s colleges in Oxford, Cambridge and London to see if the regulations imposed on one of our colleges was off the same level as other colleges and universities.

Or looking potentially at individuals maybe within the sacred heart organisation and the links between the religious aspect of their education and the teacher training education they received. Maybe even comparing the educational practices of the women with the way they were treated and the results ( for example the number of women that finished their education.)

Whilst I could also look at the prejudices that women faced and how they dealt with this adversity on an individual level as well as within the college community.