West London Institute of Higher Education

[2][3] West London Institute was created in 1976 from the merger of Borough Road and Maria Grey teacher training colleges and Chiswick Polytechnic.

It was placed under the direction, as Principal, of a sport psychologist and former physical education lecturer, Professor John Kane OBE, and a geographer Murie Robertson, who served as Vice-Principal.

It awarded undergraduate degrees (CNAA) and HNDs, and continued to train teachers, being, for example, a specialist 'Wing College' for Physical Education.

The British and Foreign School Society [1] kept an archive and ran a National Religious Education Centre on the Osterley site.

A new merger approach by the Vice-Chancellor of Brunel University London, Professor Michael Sterling, in the early 1990s went amicably – WLIHE had expertise and subject areas that BUL did not.

The East Twickenham campus of the Institute, which contained several older buildings and had a riverfront location, was sold off in 2005 and was largely demolished and converted into luxury housing.