Loreto College, Manchester
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| Motto: | Freedom, Justice, Sincerity, Truth and Joy |
| Established: | 1851 by followers of Sister 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 primarily caters for the needs of students in the 16-19 age range. The College is situated in the Moss Side area, just over one mile south of the centre of Manchester, and attracts students from all over Greater Manchester.
It offers courses ranging from "Pathways to Independence" up to A Level and beyond. The College is noted for helping students of all abilities to excel: their value added scores have consistently been classed as outstanding. 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. This reputation for helping all students, from the academically able to those needing to learn life skills, has earned the College the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education. This is an equivalent to an OBE for an institution[1].
Although primarily a Roman Catholic College, it also caters for young people of different faiths whose beliefs are consistent 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 which founded the college in 1851.
There are approximately 1,800 students in the college.
