Canisius College, Nijmegen
| Canisius College, Nijmegen | |
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| Location | |
| Nijmegen, Netherlands | |
| Information | |
| Type | Jesuit, Catholic |
| Motto | Grasp what's inside! |
| Established | 1900 |
| Director | Peter Schaap |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment |
1441 (Berg and Dalseweg) 543 (Goffert) 51 (Akkerlaan/ISK) in 2013 |
| Website | CanisiusNij |
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Canisius College, Nijmegen, is a Catholic school in the Netherlands. It has departments for VMBO, HAVO, athenium, and gymnasium.
The school offers "bridging" for foreign students who enter without fluency in Dutch. The school is named after the Saint Peter Canisius and is the legal successor of the Jesuit college with a boarding school nl:Canisius College (internaat), which is no longer for boarders or connected to the Jesuits. Since 2005 there have been no Jesuits at Canisius.
Besides the main location there are two branches: De Goffert for pre-vocational secondary including LWOO, and Akkerlaan the international bridging school. In 2013 enrollment at Canisius' three locations was: 1,441 at Berg and Dalseweg, 543 at Goffert, and 51 at Akkerlaan / ISK.
On 1 January 2002 the boards of four Nijmegen secondary schools fused together to form Nijmegen School Group, which includes Canisius College, Nijmegen Comprehensive School Groenewoud (NSG), the Kandinsky College, and St. George's School.[1] Teaching is at four levels, VMBO (base, frame, mixed, theoretical), secondary school, grammar school, and high school. The school has a main building, gym, and additional building with classrooms and a gym.[2]
In the news
On 19 October 2009 a bus crashed with students from Canisius College Dalseweg on their way to Barcelona . The bus, carrying 53 pupils and six teachers from the school, ran head-on into a tree, killing one student. Teachers and fourth graders were headed for their hotel in Calella and their Spanish tour.[3]
Famous alumni
- Ruud Lubbers, politician
- Daphne Deckers, model and columnist
- Jan van Hoof, resistance fighter
- Vincent Janssen, footballer
- nl:Joanne Kruijsen, politician
- nl:Joop Lücker, editor De Volkskrant, editor Time
- Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Superior General of Jesuits
- Hans van Mierlo, politician
- Thomas Olde Heuvelt, writer
- Peter van Uhm, former Chief of Defence
- nl:AFTh. van der Heijden, writer
- nl:Thomas Verbogt, writer
- nl:Ton Luijten, columnist
- nl:Jay Roy Cave, footballer
References,
- ↑ "Group". Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- ↑ "Onderwijs - Canisius College". Canisius College (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-02-01.
- ↑ "Bus crash". Retrieved 1 February 2017.