Education in Bellary

Most of graduate education in Bellary city, Karnataka, India falls under the jurisdiction of Gulbarga University and Visvesvaraya Technological University. The following is a list of prominent Educational institutions in the city:

Founded in 1885. In 1901, a technical class was run at the high school by the nuns of the Order of Good Shepherd, and the pupils were almost all Europeans or Eurasians.[1]
Founded as a school in 1846 by Rev. R S Wardlaw, D.D. of the London Mission, and raised to second grade college in 1891. For a long time, it was the only Arts college in the Ceded Districts. In 1903-04 it had an average daily attendance of 319 students, of whom 17 were in F.A.Class. This is the oldest educational institution in the Bellary town and continues to offer quality education to the people of Bellary to date.[1] Prof. U. R. Rao of ISRO studied in this institute.
This school on Ananthapur Road is over 150 years old. One of the oldest institutions in the town, it was started as a composite school for students from the Class IV elementary to Class VI form school final with English as the medium of instruction along with other languages like Telugu, Kannada and Urdu, besides ancient languages such as Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian.
John Neale was the first headmaster of the school, followed by eminent people such as Arcot Ranganath Mudaliar, T. D. Logan, Arcot Bheemachar, K. S. Vedantham, B. Madhava Rao, and Bahaddoor S. Seshagiri Rao. The foundation for the present building on Anantapur Road was laid on 16 July 1926 by R. G. Grieve, Director of Public Instruction, Government of Madras when Nagaruru Narayana Rao was the chairman of the Bellary Municipality[2]
The Municipal High School was bifurcated in the 1950s and the Municipal Muslim High School located in the Fort area was later renamed Moulana Abul Kalam Azad High School. Janaab Meer Mohammed Hussain became the headmaster of the new school.[2]
Bellary Educational Service's Trust, generally known as BeST School. Started in the year 2002 and follows the syllabus of Karnataka State Education Board and ICSE. The institute accommodates both residential and dayscholar students.

References

  1. ^ a b The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 7. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1908-1931 [vol. 1, 1909]. pp. 158–176. http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/toc.html?volume=7. 
  2. ^ a b "Steering success". Deccan Herald. 2003-08-08. http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/aug08/spt3.asp.