Lincoln Bishop University
Public university in Lincoln, England
Lincoln Bishop University (LBU), known until 2025 as Bishop Grosseteste University, is a public university in the city of Lincoln, England. LBU was established as a teacher training college for the Diocese of Lincoln in 1862. It gained taught degree awarding powers in 2012, applied for full university status, and was granted on 3 December 2012. It has around 2,300 full-time students enrolled on a variety of programmes and courses.
History
Lincoln Diocesan Training School for Mistresses was founded in 1862. It occupied the premises of an earlier, unsuccessful training establishment for female teachers, which had been built in 1842 with a chapel, lecture rooms and a school for teaching practice. It was later renamed Lincoln Diocesan Training College and, to mark the centenary in 1962, was renamed Bishop Grosseteste College.
The college took its name from Robert Grosseteste (also known as Robert Greathead and Robert of Lincoln), a 13th-century statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln.
It had only female residents until September 1968. From around 1963 there had been non-residents who were male.
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