Loreto College, Manchester
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| Motto | Freedom, Justice, Sincerity, Truth and Joy |
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| Established | 1851 by Mary Ward |
| Type | Public |
| Location | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Website | www.loreto.ac.uk |
Loreto College is one of four Loreto educational institutions in the UK, and exists primarily to cater for the needs of students in the 16-18 age range. The College is situated in the Moss Side/Hulme, just over one mile south of the centre of Manchester, and attracts students from all over Greater Manchester and beyond.
It offers courses ranging from Pathways to Independence to A Level and beyond. The College has a tremendous reputation for helping students to excel whatever their level of ability. As it is a non-selective College, their success isn't marked just on A Grades or the number of students who get places at Oxford and Cambridge and the other Russell Group Universities. The success is measured by how all students perform. It is their outstanding record in helping all, from the academically able to those needing to learn life skills, that has earned the College the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education. This is an equivalent to an OBE for an institution. An indication of this is the outstanding Value Added score that the College has consistently attained.
Although primarily a Catholic College, it also caters for young people of different faiths whose beliefs are consonant with the key values of Freedom, Justice, Sincerity, Truth and Joy. These key values derive from the educational philosophy of Mary Ward, a sixteenth century Englishwoman, who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the order of nuns who started the college in 1851.
