A little history......

Origins

Wolsey Hall was founded in 1894 by Joseph William Knipe, himself a trained teacher.  At his teachers' college, Knipe took such good lecture notes that the other students asked him to make copies for them.  After graduating from college he decided that there might some interesting teaching possibilities by combining first class notes with an emerging  nineteenth century new technology - "The Penny Post!".  In his first year Knipe had just 6 students.

Later

During the 1939-1945 war years Wolsey Hall was a key provider of courses to members of the British Armed Services.  A typical month in the Army would alternate between serious action and long stretches with little going on. Many servicemen and women used these quiet times to educate themselves for life back in "civvies" after the war ended.

After the war, demand for courses, especially GCE 'O' and 'A' levels and the external degrees of London University continued to grow. That was the period too when Wolsey Hall went truly international and there was a great growth in numbers of students studying from outside the UK, from countries such as Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Kenya, Nigeria, Canada, Jamaica and Trinidad.

The 80's and 90's

Many years later Wolsey Hall launched the first distance learning MBA in 1985 with Warwick Business School.  In the 1990's the College built on this experience and provided management development courses to a variety of blue chip organisations including British Airways, the Civil Aviation Authority, Her Majesty's Prison Service, Lloyds TSB, Shell Exploration.

Today

Today Wolsey Hall has refocussed on its roots. We offer a range of academic courses to both mature students and homeschoolers throughout the world, using the latest web-based learning systems to provide our students with a  first class learning experience.