Westminster College, Oxford

Westminster College, Oxford

Westminster College was a college of higher education in England. The college was founded in London in 1851 as a training institute for teachers for Methodist schools, and moved to Oxford in 1959. Following the move, the college also began to offer degree courses in Theology and Education. From 1992 - 2000 the college offered degrees validated by the University of Oxford. In 2000, financial pressures caused the college to close. The Methodist Church subsequently leased the college's campus at Harcourt Hill to Oxford Brookes University, and it became the home of the university's Westminster Institute of Education.