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Selly Oak Colleges was a group of educational institutions which occupied a substantial campus in Selly Oak, a suburb in the south-west of Birmingham, England. The early initiative was from a group of members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), led by George Cadbury, but other Protestant Christian denominations quickly became involved. From 1922 the colleges were loosely coordinated through a Federation, which from 1960 was headed by a President. However in 2001 the largest college (Westhill College) passed into the hands of the University of Birmingham, and in the following years most of the remaining colleges closed, leaving two colleges which continue today, Woodbrooke, a study and conference centre for the Society of Friends, and Fircroft, a small adult education college with residential provision.
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