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| The name '''Warnborough''' is associated with several related institutions of ] existing from 1973 to the present |
The name '''Warnborough''' is associated with several related institutions of ] existing from 1973 to the present. This including '''Warnborough College (Oxford)''', '''Warnborough College (UK)''', '''Warnborough University/College (Ireland),''' and a UK registered charity: '''Wanborough Foundation (UK)''' (Bricks & Mortarboards, Bodleian Library, Oxford) | ||
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== '''Founders''' == | ||
| Warnborough College was began in ], England, in 1973. Founded by Ethyl and Brenden Tempest-Mogg, who was a graduate research at the University of Oxford. Warnborough College offers recognized study abroad courses to seniors at over 200 US colleges and universities. The International Summer Schools (ISS) were held at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Edinburgh. | |||
| ===1973–1996: Oxford=== | |||
| Warnborough College was founded in ], England, in 1973 by Brenden Tempest-Mogg, an Australian<ref name=Phelan-Walsh>{{citation | url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/college-charges-836418000-fees-for-useless-degrees-1290087.html | title=College charges €18,000 fees for 'useless' degrees | last1=Phelan | first1=Shane | last2=Walshe |first2=John | newspaper=] | date=26 November 2012}}</ref> who had attended ], University of Oxford, in 1970.<ref name="King">{{cite news|last=King | first=Tim | date=25 October 1996 | title=Oxford College Sued in US is Repossessed | newspaper=] }}</ref> Warnborough College was not affiliated with the ]. It offered ] programmes and catered largely to ] undergraduate and graduate students spending a semester or year abroad as part of their academic programme.<ref>''Queensland Courier-Mail'', 10 November 1993, Residential Property section, p. 35.</ref> Other offerings included Warnborough College International Summer Schools<ref>{{citation | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9406EED8143BF93BA25752C0A967948260 | title=Vacationing at an Overseas University | newspaper=] | date=18 January 1981 | first=Suzanne | last=Donner | access-date=2010-05-27}}</ref> and a venue for summer conferences.<ref>{{citation | newspaper=] | date=19 February 1990 | title=The Dreaming Spires Awaken}}</ref> It was founded on ] in ] and in 1976 moved to ], about four miles south from the city of Oxford.<ref name=King/> | |||
| Founded on Warnborough Road in North Oxford it moved to St. Margaret's Institute in North Oxford 1in 974 and then to Boars Hill in 1976 ,occupying the former palace of the Bishop of Oxford and Plater College. The campus provided teaching and administratiovefacilities. The adjoining Yatscombe Hall complex was acquired in 1978. In 1984 ,the campus extended student accommodation and sporting facilities. | |||
| In 1985, Warnborough College began the Warnborough Australian Studies Programmes for studies in ] and ], Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.warnborough.ac.uk/history.html |title=Warnborough College Overview |others=From ] |access-date=27 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001208074900/http://www.warnborough.ac.uk/history.html |archive-date= 8 December 2000 }}</ref> The nine American students who enrolled for the initial semester characterized the program as an "egregious academic dodge" in which they were misled as to their access to facilities at the University of Sydney and University of Queensland, and in which their lecturers were misled that the students were from Oxford University instead of American colleges.<ref name=Spy>{{citation | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvCBtO5yKVkC&pg=PA76&dq=warnborough+college+australia+spy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwigidW95rH0AhWKWc0KHbO1D1kQ6AF6BAgCEAI#v=onepage&q=warnborough%20college%20australia%20spy&f=false | title=Europe on Three Credits a Day | last=Kamp |first=David | publisher=Spy | date =September 1992}}</ref> | |||
| === '''Distinguished Founding Sponsors''' === | |||
| In 1995, Warnborough College Oxford enrolled its first group of students onsite in a four-year US academic programme, which created significant controversy and litigation that led to its closure and liquidation the following year.<ref name="Slate1"/><ref name="Slate2"/> | |||
| These were: President, Bradford College (Mass.); Chancellor, Claremont University (Ca.); Chancellor, North Carolina State University; Chaplain, Hertford College, University of Oxford (UK); President, Hobart & William Smith Colleges (New York); President Hampshire College (Mass.); Provost, Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.); President, Duke University (Nth. Carolina). | |||
| '''Study Abroad in Australia 1987-1999''' | |||
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| In 1997 Warnborough University was registered as a limited company in Ireland, directed by Brenden Tempest-Mogg and Kee Guan Ng, a ]n national<ref name=Phelan-Walsh/> with a registered branch office in the United Kingdom. It initially operated an office in ] and later moved to ] in 2001. It offered graduate and undergraduate residential and non-residential degrees in liberal arts, scientific and professional studies.<ref></ref> In November 2005 ] said that Warnborough University in Ireland was in breach of the Universities Act 1997 by calling itself a university and requested that they not use the word "university".<ref>{{citation | url=http://www.independent.ie/education/latest-news/exposed-scandal-of-the-bogus-degrees-230591.html | title=Exposed: scandal of the bogus degrees | newspaper=] | date=14 November 2005}}</ref> Earlier in 2005, the inclusion of Warnborough and other unauthorized degree providers on a ] (DFES) list of "genuine" education providers was described as an "embarrassment" to DFES.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/embarrassment-at-dfes-over-official-college-list/195060.article |title=Embarrassment at DFES over official college list |date=1 April 2005 |work=Times Higher Education}}</ref> | |||
| In 1987, Warnborough College began the successful Warnborough Studies Programmes for American Study Abroad Students held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. | |||
| ⚫ | ===Affiliates=== | ||
| Warnborough represented to the US Department of Education during its termination hearings in 1996 that, at the time, its degrees were actually issued by the controversial and unaccredited ], with which it had a contractual arrangement to do so. Warnborough was represented in the DOE hearings by John Walsh of Brannagh, Chancellor of Greenwich. <ref name=DOE96/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/australia-bans-online-institution/ |title=Australia Bans Online Institution |last=Cohen |first=David |date=17 January 2003 |work=]}}</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | == '''1997–2005:Dublin ndon and Canterbury''' == | ||
| Warnborough was formerly in an academic partnership with ] (STMU) for automatic admission to STMU of holders of Warnborough College (UK) Pre-Medical diplomas and issuance of dual degrees by STMU with Warnborough College (IE).<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207121610/http://www.stmu.org/dual-degree.html|url=http://www.stmu.org/dual-degree.html|title=STMU Dual Degree Program|archive-date=7 February 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118201552/http://warnborough.ie/faculties/science/dualdegreestmu.htm|url=http://warnborough.ie/faculties/science/dualdegreestmu.htm|title=STMU Dual Degree Program|archive-date=November 18, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref></ref> The ] characterized STMU as being jointly operated with Warnborough.<ref name="ODA"/><!-- ODA website accessed 31 May 2012 --> | |||
| In 1996, Warnborough moved briefly to Oxford city centre and then to ] in 1997, with its administration based in ] In 1997 Warnborough University was registered in Ireland as a limited company by Dr Brenden Tempest-Mogg and Dr Julian Ng a ] national. In Dublin, Irish qualifications in liberal arts, scientific and professional studies were offered online. | |||
| In 2001, it chose ] for its International HQ. Since 2005, Warnborough has been listed on the UK government Register of Providers (UKRLP 10009515) for its UK qualifications in English Language, Business Studies and ‘A’ Levels. (''Bricks & Mortar Boards'', Bodleian Library, Oxford) | |||
| In the early 2000s Warnborough University generated controversy in Australia because neither Warnborough nor any of its consortium partners through which it was offering graduate and undergraduate degrees were accredited to do so.<ref></ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://glj.com.au/files/webstersmco.pdf |title=Lawnham, Patrick, "Authorities plan crackdown on Clayton's Degrees", The Australian, Ed 1 p 31 (13 March 2002) |access-date=27 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726071915/http://glj.com.au/files/webstersmco.pdf |archive-date=26 July 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The Australian state of New South Wales included Warnborough on a list of five "unrecognized universities".<ref></ref><!-- In the late 2000s, Warnborough received accreditation for its short courses.{{cn|date=April 2014}}--> | |||
| === 1997- Distance Learning Begins === | |||
| ⚫ | == Buildings and sites == | ||
| Warnborough University (1997-2005) offered online learning from 1997 providing global opportunities for Distance Learning. It was accredited as a ‘Premier Institution’ by the UK Accredited Service for International Colleges and Universities (ASIC). Online learning is still offered by Warnborough College, Ireland. | |||
| From 1976 to 1996, Warnborough College Oxford, was located at the former facilities of ] (which had relocated to ]), the Bishop's palace of the ], and Yatscombe Hall, on Boar's Hill. The Boars Hill facilities were used for teaching, administration and accommodations<ref name=SeattleTimes>{{Cite news |url=http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2144299&date=19951001&query=warnborough | title=Students find Warnborough is not a part of Oxford |first=Shelby |last=Gilje| newspaper=]| date=1 October 1995}}</ref> | |||
| After the college was liquidated and the property repossessed, the site was occupied by squatters. The site was subject to planning disputes for over a decade thereafter.<ref name=Oxford-Mail>{{citation |url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/2004/02/07/Oxfordshire+Archive/6568681.MP_bids_to_break_plans_deadlock |title=MP bids to break deadlock |newspaper=] |date=2004-02-07}}</ref> Yatscombe Hall was destroyed by fire in December 2003<ref name=BBCNews>{{citation |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/3304539.stm |title=Fire Destroys Former College |newspaper=] |date=2003-12-09}}</ref> and all the buildings on the site were demolished. A retirement village was planned for the site, <ref name=OxfordTimes>{{citation |url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/804032._Village_for_elderly__planned_for_Boars_Hill |title=Village for elderly planned for Boars Hill |newspaper=] |date=2006-06-23}}</ref> but eventually a development of a four large country homes was built instead by Millgate Homes.<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229152316/http://www.millgatehomes.co.uk/developments/view/boars-hill |date=29 December 2011 }}, , United Kingdom.</ref> | |||
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| ⚫ | === Affiliates === | ||
| ⚫ | From 2006 to 2008, Warnborough College Ireland rented offices from the former ] in ] but All Hallows said it would not renew Warnborough's lease after August 2008.< |
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| Warnborough has recognised Learning Centres, affiliates and partners around the world. Warnborough is global in its outreach. | |||
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== '''Controversy''' == | ||
| In 1997 Saint Theresa’s Medical University (WHO recognized) in St.Kitts had an intended ‘partnership’ with Warnborough that failed to eventuate. Saint Theresa’s closed in 2009. | |||
| ⚫ | Warnborough College UK is located in ], ]. When it was inspected in May 2012 by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) for Private Further Education, it was reported to have 59 students, of which the vast majority were foreign students on Tier 4 Visas, principally from Asia, of which only four had English as their first language.< |
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| In 2005 ] requested that Warnborough University change its name to Warnborough College. | |||
| Warnborough College UK is designated by the ] as an "ASIC Premier College".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.asic.org.uk/uk-directory/ |title=UK Institution Directory |work=Accreditation Service for International Schools, Colleges and Universities |access-date=January 21, 2022}}</ref>, which permits its students to obtain short-term study visas in the UK, but such accreditation is not recognized for any other purpose.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.asic.org.uk/affiliations/ |title=Affiliations and Credentials|work=Accreditation Service for International Schools, Colleges and Universities |access-date=January 21, 2022}}</ref> | |||
| In the early 2000s, Warnborough’s success in Australia generated some controversy poked by the now defunct ODA in Oregon. | |||
| ⚫ | Warnborough College Ireland has an office in ]. | ||
| ⚫ | Warnborough College Ireland is not accredited by any known organization. Warnborough College Ireland courses are not recognised by Ireland's Department of Education, the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (]) or the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (NQAI). In February 2008, Sean O'Foghlu, chief executive of NQAI told the '']'' that because Warnborough College is not a recognised higher education institution or awarding body the qualifications are "effectively worthless".< |
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| Warnborough leased offices at All Hallows College in Dublin (2006 to 2008). Warnborough moved to the impressive Capel building in central Dublin. All Hallows College closed in controversy in 2014). (www.her.ie/news/dublins-all-hallows-college-to-close-down-140176) | |||
| In July 2008, ] denied the college's application for accreditation.<ref></ref> Warnborough sought leave to take judicial review of the denial<ref></ref> but withdrew its appeal in November 2008 after HETAC agreed to permit Warnborough to submit a new accreditation application.<ref>, ''Irish Independent'', 11 November 2008</ref> | |||
| That year Warnborough applied for HETAC accreditation, but it was denied through pressure from the Oregon ODA. A High Court Judicial Review required HETAC to accept a new application from Warnborough, but HETAC increased its application fee, which Warnborough rejected. HETAC then used the Irish media to discredit Warnborough. HETAC no longer exists. (ibid). | |||
| The ] named Warnborough in its former list of unaccredited universities, with its then administrator, Alan Contreras, characterising Warnborough College as "a diploma mill that has managed to move back and forth between Britain and Ireland for decades without either government's being able to put an end to it."<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/newsletter/Number54/p7_Contreras.htm |last=Contreras |first=Alan |title=The complexity of international quality control |journal=International Higher Education |number=54 |date=Winter 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120801163057/http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/newsletter/Number54/p7_Contreras.htm |archive-date=1 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Contreras |first=Alan |title=International quality control is no easy task |journal=Chronicle of Higher Education |date=30 May 2008}}</ref><ref name="ODA">{{cite web|title=Unaccredited colleges|url=http://www.osac.state.or.us/oda/unaccredited.aspx|publisher=]|access-date=6 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005050415/http://www.osac.state.or.us/oda/unaccredited.aspx|archive-date=5 October 2012 }}</ref> | |||
| In 1995 a handful of American students claimed they were misled, believing Warnborough was affiliated with the University of Oxford. Expelled for drug offenses, these students made many false allegations to gain refunds, and they stirred up the media with lies and exaggerations. Legal action was taken in the USA to no avail. Fake media claimed that the University of Oxford was suing Warnborough, that the college went into liquidation, and that the Tempest-Mogg family returned to Australia were all incorrect. (''Bricks & Mortarboards'', Bodleian Library, Oxford). | |||
| ==Controversy== | |||
| Warnborough operated without significant controversy until the 1980s, when it began offering postgraduate programs. In 1987, BBC Radio broadcast a 25-minute long expose, revealing that Warnborough had no authority to issue degrees, and characterized Warnborough as a "nightmare" of low academic standards, inadequate teaching, high cost, and poor facilities and living conditions. In the aftermath of the BBC report, enrollment declined drastically, creating a financial crisis because Warnborough had taken out a $2 million high-interest loan, which could only be paid off by recruiting more students. In 1995, Warnborough decided to recruit graduating high-school students, holding itself out as a four-year college.<ref name=Slate1>{{Cite web | url= https://slate.com/podcasts/one-year/s2/1995/e2/warnborough-college-oxford-university-confused-american-teenagers |first= Josh | last=Levin | title= One Year: 1995 Fake Oxford | publisher= Slate | date= 23 November 2021}}</ref><ref name=Slate2>{{Cite web | url= https://slate.com/transcripts/YnRGLzJYU3ZPUk1TYmxqRnE5Y1FhYjR0cElmM0NnY0FNVERjMTh2RnhaRT0= |first= Josh | last=Levin | title= One Year: 1995 Fake Oxford - Transcript| publisher= Slate | date= 23 November 2021}}</ref> | |||
| == '''Accreditation''' == | |||
| When the first class of 4-year students arrived in 1995 several American students alleged that Warnborough misled them into believing it was affiliated with ].<ref name="Lyall">{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE1D91531F931A35753C1A963958260 |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Americans Say a College Near Oxford Duped Them |first=Sarah |last=Lyall |date=2 October 1995}}</ref> When students discovered that Warnborough had no connection with Oxford University about fifteen or twenty of them - roughly half the new enrollment, immediately withdrew from the college with some intending to sue for refunds.<ref name="Lyall"/><ref name="O'Leary">{{Cite news |url=http://mistakengoal.com/docs/Times_Warnborough_College_Oct_1995.pdf |last1=O'Leary |first1=John |last2=Charter |first2=David |title=US students say college misled them over link with Oxford |publisher=The Times (London) |date=3 October 1995}}</ref> The college denied that it had claimed any association with Oxford University.<ref name="Lyall"/> Those students who remained discovered that, because Warnborough was not accredited, the credits for their classes were not transferable.<ref name="Slate1"/><ref name="Slate2"/> | |||
| In 1995 Warnborough College UK became an accredited center for the ''University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations''. (Encylopedia of Oxford, 1999) | |||
| Warnborough College, Ireland, and Warnborough College, UK, are accredited by the worldwide recognized UK ''Accreditation Service for International Colleges and Universities (ASIC)'' as ’Premier Institutions’ based on the content and the standards of curriculums, quality of instruction, and the reliability of testing. Other accreditations and recognitions for Warnborough College, UK, have included the British Council, ISO9001, Institute of Certified Bookkeepers, Association of Business Executives (ABE), and the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI). | |||
| In the early 2000s Warnborough University generated controversy in Australia because neither Warnborough nor any of its consortium partners through which it was offering graduate and undergraduate degrees were accredited to do so.<sup></sup> The Australian state of New South Wales included Warnborough on a list of five "unrecognized universities".<sup></sup> | |||
| === '''Warnborough Foundation UK Charity''' === | |||
| In 2020 the Warnborough Foundation CIO was based in Canterbury, UK. Focus on vocational, technical, and skills training for youth employment. They support a school for refugees in Koh Tao, Thailand, and an orphan school in Thailand. (''Bricks & Mortarboards'', Bodleian Library) | |||
| === '''Erasmus+ Projects''' === | |||
| Warnborough College, Ireland, and Warnborough College, UK, have participated in high-profile Erasmus+ projects supporting education, training, youth and sport with European and other institutions.(www,/eurireland.ie/2018/08/14/erasmus-capacity-building-irish-organisations-to-share-nearly-e8m/) | |||
| == '''Some Notable People''' == | |||
| Sir Christopher White, Bt. (Visitor & Trustee); Lord Pitt of Hamstead, (Academic Advisor); Lord Kilmarnock (Academic Advisor); Brigadier Henchley (Trustee); Rev’d Canon Dr. Richard Martin (VP for Alumni Relations, and Trustee); Dr John Allen, (Trustee); Dr Juan Salado (Journalist); Dr Mohamed Ashmalee (Minister of State, Maldives); Wells Orr ( US Trade Representative); Hon. Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland, Australia (Advisor); Jamie Redford (Alumni); Dr. Robert Wilson, Mayor of Parks, NSW, Australia (Alumni); Dr George Udeani, Scientist, (Alumni); Dr Kneeland Youngblood, Presidential Appointee to Barak Obama (Alumni). (''Bricks & Mortarboards'', Bodleian Library, Oxford) | |||
| ⚫ | == '''Buildings and sites''' == | ||
| From 1976 to 1996, Warnborough College Oxford, was located at the former facilities of ] (which had relocated to ]), the Bishop's palace of the ], and Yatscombe Hall, on Boar's Hill. The Boars Hill facilities were used for teaching, administration and accommodations<sup></sup> After the college was liquidated and the property repossessed, the site was occupied by squatters. The site was subject to planning disputes for over a decade thereafter.<sup></sup> Yatscombe Hall was destroyed by fire in December 2003<sup></sup> and all the buildings on the site were demolished. A retirement village was planned for the site, <sup></sup> but eventually a development of a four large country homes was built instead by Millgate Homes.<sup></sup> | |||
| ⚫ | Remains of Yatscombe Hall in January 2004 | ||
| ⚫ | From 2006 to 2008, Warnborough College Ireland rented offices from the former ] in ] but All Hallows said it would not renew Warnborough's lease after August 2008.<sup></sup> In February 2008, the ''Irish Independent'' reported that All Hallows officials were concerned about the college's presence on All Hallows' grounds.<sup></sup> At All Hallows' request, Warnborough removed photographs of All Hallows from its website.<sup></sup> | ||
| == Organisation == | |||
| ⚫ | Warnborough College UK is located in ], ]. When it was inspected in May 2012 by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) for Private Further Education, it was reported to have 59 students, of which the vast majority were foreign students on Tier 4 Visas, principally from Asia, of which only four had English as their first language.<sup></sup> | ||
| Warnborough College UK is designated by the ] as an "ASIC Premier College".<sup></sup>, which permits its students to obtain short-term study visas in the UK, but such accreditation is not recognized for any other purpose.<sup></sup> | |||
| ⚫ | Warnborough College Ireland has an office in ]. | ||
| ⚫ | Warnborough College Ireland is not accredited by any known organization. Warnborough College Ireland courses are not recognised by Ireland's Department of Education, the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (]) or the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (NQAI). In February 2008, Sean O'Foghlu, chief executive of NQAI told the '']'' that because Warnborough College is not a recognised higher education institution or awarding body the qualifications are "effectively worthless".<sup></sup> | ||
| Although the college continued to deny any misrepresentation, Oxford University threatened Warnborough College with a lawsuit over these alleged misrepresentations<ref name="O'Leary"/> and the ] sued Warnborough.<ref name=SeattleTimes/><ref name="Lyall"/> The lawsuit resulted in a judgement against Warnborough College by the Superior Court of ] of nearly $300,000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.edweek.org/login.html?source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.altavista.com%2Fweb%2Fresults%3Fitag%3Dody%26q%3D%2522warnborough%2Bcollege%2522%2Bsued%26kgs%3D1%26kls%3D0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edweek.org%2Few%2Farticles%2F1997%2F03%2F12%2F24brief.h16.html&levelId=2100&baddebt=false |title=News in Brief: State Capitols Roundup |publisher=Education Week |date=12 March 1997}}</ref> Warnborough never paid the restitution ordered by the Court.<ref name="Slate1"/><ref name="Slate2"/> | |||
| In July 2008, ] denied the college's application for accreditation.<sup></sup> Warnborough sought leave to take judicial review of the denial<sup></sup> but withdrew its appeal in November 2008 after HETAC agreed to permit Warnborough to submit a new accreditation application.<sup></sup> | |||
| On 4 October 1995 the ] took emergency action against<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://oha.ed.gov/oha/files/2019/02/1995-146-ea.pdf |title=In Re Warnborough College, US Dept of Education Docket No 95-146-EA |date=6 December 1995}}</ref><ref name=DOE96>{{Cite web |url=https://oha.ed.gov/oha/files/2019/02/1995-164st.pdf |title=In Re Warnborough College, US Dept of Education Docket Nos. 95-164-ST, 96-60-SF |date=9 August 1996}}</ref> and then, in 1996, terminated the eligibility of Warnborough College to participate in the federal student financial assistance programmes under Title IV of the ] on the basis that it was not a degree-granting foreign institution; its credits were not freely transferable to eligible US universities; and it had no eligible one-year vocational programmes.<ref name=DOE96/> It also ] the college $40,000 for failing to make refunds to students in accord with Title IV and for misrepresentations to students.<ref name=DOE96/> | |||
| The ] named Warnborough in its former list of unaccredited universities, with its then administrator, Alan Contreras, characterising Warnborough College as "a diploma mill that has managed to move back and forth between Britain and Ireland for decades without either government's being able to put an end to it."<sup></sup> | |||
| Hertford College was reported to be pursuing legal action against Warnborough College to recover a property rental debt of 6,000 pounds.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cherwell.ospl.co.uk/archive/Michaelmas1996/Issue4/news/header5.html |first=Pritikin |last=Susan |date=31 October 1996 |title=College? What College? |publisher=Cherwell (Oxford, UK) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970522085740/http://cherwell.ospl.co.uk/archive/Michaelmas1996/Issue4/news/header5.html |archive-date=22 May 1997 }}</ref> Other creditors hired a private detective to track down the principals after they returned to Australia.<ref name=King/><ref name=Times96>{{citation | title=College that lured U.S. students goes bust | newspaper=The Times (London) | date=29 October 1996}}</ref><ref></ref> The Boars Hill properties were repossessed by creditors and its corporate owner, Oxford International Educational Enterprises Ltd, directed by brothers Brenden and Daryl Tempest-Mogg and their mother, Ethel Tempest-Mogg, was wound up in a petition by the ].<ref name=King/> In 1996, Warnborough relocated temporarily to offices rented from the New Road Baptist Church in central Oxford.<ref name=King/> The Tempest-Moggs returned to Australia in July 1996 and the New Road office closed in August 1996.<ref name=King/> In October 1996 Warnborough went into ].<ref name=Times96/> | |||
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Revision as of 07:21, 26 August 2022
Colleges in England and Ireland
| Type | Private, for-profit |
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| Established | 1973, 1997, 2006 |
| Chairman | John Allen |
| President | Brenden D. Tempest-Mogg |
| Vice-president | Julian Ng |
| Location | Canterbury, Kent, UK Dublin, Ireland |
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The name Warnborough is associated with several related institutions of higher education existing from 1973 to the present. This including Warnborough College (Oxford), Warnborough College (UK), Warnborough University/College (Ireland), and a UK registered charity: Wanborough Foundation (UK) (Bricks & Mortarboards, Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Founders
Warnborough College was began in Oxford, England, in 1973. Founded by Ethyl and Brenden Tempest-Mogg, who was a graduate research at the University of Oxford. Warnborough College offers recognized study abroad courses to seniors at over 200 US colleges and universities. The International Summer Schools (ISS) were held at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Edinburgh.
Founded on Warnborough Road in North Oxford it moved to St. Margaret's Institute in North Oxford 1in 974 and then to Boars Hill in 1976 ,occupying the former palace of the Bishop of Oxford and Plater College. The campus provided teaching and administratiovefacilities. The adjoining Yatscombe Hall complex was acquired in 1978. In 1984 ,the campus extended student accommodation and sporting facilities.
Distinguished Founding Sponsors
These were: President, Bradford College (Mass.); Chancellor, Claremont University (Ca.); Chancellor, North Carolina State University; Chaplain, Hertford College, University of Oxford (UK); President, Hobart & William Smith Colleges (New York); President Hampshire College (Mass.); Provost, Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.); President, Duke University (Nth. Carolina).
Study Abroad in Australia 1987-1999
In 1987, Warnborough College began the successful Warnborough Studies Programmes for American Study Abroad Students held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and at the University of Queensland, Brisbane.
1997–2005:Dublin ndon and Canterbury
In 1996, Warnborough moved briefly to Oxford city centre and then to London in 1997, with its administration based in Pall Mall. In 1997 Warnborough University was registered in Ireland as a limited company by Dr Brenden Tempest-Mogg and Dr Julian Ng a Malaysian national. In Dublin, Irish qualifications in liberal arts, scientific and professional studies were offered online.
In 2001, it chose Canterbury for its International HQ. Since 2005, Warnborough has been listed on the UK government Register of Providers (UKRLP 10009515) for its UK qualifications in English Language, Business Studies and ‘A’ Levels. (Bricks & Mortar Boards, Bodleian Library, Oxford)
1997- Distance Learning Begins
Warnborough University (1997-2005) offered online learning from 1997 providing global opportunities for Distance Learning. It was accredited as a ‘Premier Institution’ by the UK Accredited Service for International Colleges and Universities (ASIC). Online learning is still offered by Warnborough College, Ireland.
Affiliates
Warnborough has recognised Learning Centres, affiliates and partners around the world. Warnborough is global in its outreach.
Controversy
In 1997 Saint Theresa’s Medical University (WHO recognized) in St.Kitts had an intended ‘partnership’ with Warnborough that failed to eventuate. Saint Theresa’s closed in 2009.
In 2005 Ireland's Department of Education and Science requested that Warnborough University change its name to Warnborough College.
In the early 2000s, Warnborough’s success in Australia generated some controversy poked by the now defunct ODA in Oregon.
Warnborough leased offices at All Hallows College in Dublin (2006 to 2008). Warnborough moved to the impressive Capel building in central Dublin. All Hallows College closed in controversy in 2014). (www.her.ie/news/dublins-all-hallows-college-to-close-down-140176)
That year Warnborough applied for HETAC accreditation, but it was denied through pressure from the Oregon ODA. A High Court Judicial Review required HETAC to accept a new application from Warnborough, but HETAC increased its application fee, which Warnborough rejected. HETAC then used the Irish media to discredit Warnborough. HETAC no longer exists. (ibid).
In 1995 a handful of American students claimed they were misled, believing Warnborough was affiliated with the University of Oxford. Expelled for drug offenses, these students made many false allegations to gain refunds, and they stirred up the media with lies and exaggerations. Legal action was taken in the USA to no avail. Fake media claimed that the University of Oxford was suing Warnborough, that the college went into liquidation, and that the Tempest-Mogg family returned to Australia were all incorrect. (Bricks & Mortarboards, Bodleian Library, Oxford).
Accreditation
In 1995 Warnborough College UK became an accredited center for the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations. (Encylopedia of Oxford, 1999)
Warnborough College, Ireland, and Warnborough College, UK, are accredited by the worldwide recognized UK Accreditation Service for International Colleges and Universities (ASIC) as ’Premier Institutions’ based on the content and the standards of curriculums, quality of instruction, and the reliability of testing. Other accreditations and recognitions for Warnborough College, UK, have included the British Council, ISO9001, Institute of Certified Bookkeepers, Association of Business Executives (ABE), and the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI).
In the early 2000s Warnborough University generated controversy in Australia because neither Warnborough nor any of its consortium partners through which it was offering graduate and undergraduate degrees were accredited to do so. The Australian state of New South Wales included Warnborough on a list of five "unrecognized universities".
Warnborough Foundation UK Charity
In 2020 the Warnborough Foundation CIO was based in Canterbury, UK. Focus on vocational, technical, and skills training for youth employment. They support a school for refugees in Koh Tao, Thailand, and an orphan school in Thailand. (Bricks & Mortarboards, Bodleian Library)
Erasmus+ Projects
Warnborough College, Ireland, and Warnborough College, UK, have participated in high-profile Erasmus+ projects supporting education, training, youth and sport with European and other institutions.(www,/eurireland.ie/2018/08/14/erasmus-capacity-building-irish-organisations-to-share-nearly-e8m/)
Some Notable People
Sir Christopher White, Bt. (Visitor & Trustee); Lord Pitt of Hamstead, (Academic Advisor); Lord Kilmarnock (Academic Advisor); Brigadier Henchley (Trustee); Rev’d Canon Dr. Richard Martin (VP for Alumni Relations, and Trustee); Dr John Allen, (Trustee); Dr Juan Salado (Journalist); Dr Mohamed Ashmalee (Minister of State, Maldives); Wells Orr ( US Trade Representative); Hon. Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland, Australia (Advisor); Jamie Redford (Alumni); Dr. Robert Wilson, Mayor of Parks, NSW, Australia (Alumni); Dr George Udeani, Scientist, (Alumni); Dr Kneeland Youngblood, Presidential Appointee to Barak Obama (Alumni). (Bricks & Mortarboards, Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Buildings and sites
From 1976 to 1996, Warnborough College Oxford, was located at the former facilities of Plater College (which had relocated to Headington), the Bishop's palace of the Diocese of Oxford, and Yatscombe Hall, on Boar's Hill. The Boars Hill facilities were used for teaching, administration and accommodations After the college was liquidated and the property repossessed, the site was occupied by squatters. The site was subject to planning disputes for over a decade thereafter. Yatscombe Hall was destroyed by fire in December 2003 and all the buildings on the site were demolished. A retirement village was planned for the site, but eventually a development of a four large country homes was built instead by Millgate Homes.
Remains of Yatscombe Hall in January 2004
From 2006 to 2008, Warnborough College Ireland rented offices from the former All Hallows College in Drumcondra but All Hallows said it would not renew Warnborough's lease after August 2008. In February 2008, the Irish Independent reported that All Hallows officials were concerned about the college's presence on All Hallows' grounds. At All Hallows' request, Warnborough removed photographs of All Hallows from its website.
Organisation
Warnborough College UK is located in Canterbury, Kent. When it was inspected in May 2012 by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) for Private Further Education, it was reported to have 59 students, of which the vast majority were foreign students on Tier 4 Visas, principally from Asia, of which only four had English as their first language.
Warnborough College UK is designated by the Accreditation Service for International Colleges as an "ASIC Premier College"., which permits its students to obtain short-term study visas in the UK, but such accreditation is not recognized for any other purpose.
Warnborough College Ireland has an office in Dublin.
Warnborough College Ireland is not accredited by any known organization. Warnborough College Ireland courses are not recognised by Ireland's Department of Education, the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC) or the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (NQAI). In February 2008, Sean O'Foghlu, chief executive of NQAI told the Irish Independent that because Warnborough College is not a recognised higher education institution or awarding body the qualifications are "effectively worthless".
In July 2008, HETAC denied the college's application for accreditation. Warnborough sought leave to take judicial review of the denial but withdrew its appeal in November 2008 after HETAC agreed to permit Warnborough to submit a new accreditation application.
The Oregon Office of Degree Authorization named Warnborough in its former list of unaccredited universities, with its then administrator, Alan Contreras, characterising Warnborough College as "a diploma mill that has managed to move back and forth between Britain and Ireland for decades without either government's being able to put an end to it."
See also
- British Council
- Educational accreditation
- Independent Schools Inspectorate
- UK Visas and Immigration
- Accreditation Service for International Colleges
References
External links
- Warnborough Worldwide
- Warnborough College UK
- Warnborough College Ireland
- Warnborough Worldwide Alumni Association