WEEK 4, 16/10/17

This week we learnt about the development of female higher education through nineteenth to twentieth century.

The handouts supplied within class proved useful research resources for further analysis. The late-eighteenth to mid-twentieth century timeline detailed major events relating to higher female education in Britain; this is extremely useful for further research into this, or for contextualising other spheres of research I may do. Similarly, the handouts of the newspaper article and novel extract proved resourceful. It held insight into an educated male versus an educated female contemporary reception of the ongoing events, and of the nature of the sexes.

As an addition to their potent usefulness, reading these within class also exercised my speed-reading skills, of which I am not strong. This will later be useful when gathering a quantity of sources to analysis for my project. It also improved my critical thinking due to the validity of certain handouts and creating a ranking of the most influential listed events.

From this all, I can develop research into which factors helped improve gender equality within higher education: ‘How ground-breaking was Whitelands College within the development of higher female education in Britain?’