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By 1987, Loreto College had a total of 701 pupils (59 boarders and 642 day pupils). One of the founder members of the College, Mother Colmcille, had died in 1986, and transport networks were bringing about huge changes in the world of boarding schools.
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It is situated mainly on Hatfield road, which also home the still standing almshouses built and endowed in about 1736 by Sarah Churchill, the first Duchess of Marlborough. However it also borders Marlborough Gate and Upper lattimore road, which was home to Samuel Ryder, the founder of the Ryder cup.
The school was founded primarily by Mary Ward, a Catholic nun born in 1585, who campaigned for Women’s education. She helped to set up the I.B.V.M: The Institute of Blessed Virgin Mary, which went on to start Loreto College, becoming the first provider of secondary schooling for girls in St Albans.
The original part of the school, known as “the elms” was built in the years before 1922 and was used as the convent, as the school was originally run by nuns and had been untill a few years ago. The nuns however worked hard to expand the school and in 1923 brought a building known as “St Josephs” from Samuel Ryder, a well known English business man...
Loreto College is a Roman Catholic sixth form college in Hulme, Manchester, England, based on the educational philosophy of Mary Ward, a 16th-century nun, who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the congregation of religious sisters who started the college in 1851.
Loreto became a co-educational 6th Form college which continued to serve the needs of the Manchester area. The years had taken their toll on the original buildings and those added by the Loreto community.
For six years up to 1970 the expansion of comprehensive schools and the gradual weakening of the grammar schools was widely associated with Labour Party policy, at odds with Conservative opinion. Butj, in fact, the movement began long before Labour came into power and continued afterwards.
The 1944 Education Act set up a universal system of free, compulsory schooling from the age of five to 15. Schooling was provided by local authority and church schools.
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History. In 1906, the Ursuline Order took control of an all-girls school, setting up a smaller boys' primary school nearby. In 1922, when the new Northern Ireland Educational Authority was set up, certain qualifications were needed to teach in secondary schools.
