Holy Cross College (UK)
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Holy Cross College is a Catholic Sixth Form College on Manchester Road in Bury, England, UK
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[edit] Admissions
It has around 2200 pupils. It offers education for pupils ages 16–19 including A Levels and a limited selection of Undergraduate degrees
[edit] History
The Holy Cross College was formed in 1979 as a sixth form college with just over two-hundred students. The site and buildings had previously been the Bury Convent Grammar School, a direct grant Catholic girls school founded in 1878 by the Daughters of the Cross.
[edit] Academic performance
Holy Cross College recently entered the top 10 sixth form colleges in the country (placing 8th on the list in 2007[1]) and has more recently been placed 2nd in the country in 2008. Holy Cross has been voted a 5 star best small company to work for in 2010.[2] Students from the college regularly gain places at the Sutton 13 universities (Cambridge, Imperial, Oxford, LSE, UCL, York, Warwick, Bristol, Nottingham, St. Andrews, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Durham) and around 85% of students enter into some form of Higher Education[citation needed]. Holy Cross College has close educational links with Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio.
[edit] References
- ^ Holy Cross One Of Top Ten Colleges (from Bury Times)
- ^ http://www.bestcompanies.co.uk/AccreditationPublishedList.aspx
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