|
Marcellin College, Randwick
Marcellin College Randwick is an independent systemic Catholic secondary day school for boys, located in Randwick, a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded by the Marist Brothers in 1923, the college is overseen by the Sydney Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of Sydney. The school currently caters for approximately 960 students from Years 7 to 12. The college is affiliated with the Association of Marist Schools of Australia (AMSA) and was previously a member of the Metropolitan Catholic Colleges Sports Association (MCC). History Marist Brothers founded the college as part of the worldwide Congregation of Marist Colleges which began in 1816 under the guidance of the French priest, Marcellin Champagnat SM. Archbishop Kelly visited Randwick in 1921, and pressed for the establishment of a school for boys. Land became available in Alison Rd and on 4 November 1922 Dr Sheehan laid the first stone which now forms part of the College Wall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent School
A private school or independent school is a school not administered or funded by the government, unlike a State school, public school. Private schools are schools that are not dependent upon national or local government to finance their financial endowment. Unless privately owned they typically have a board of governors and have a system of governance that ensures their independent operation. Private schools retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students for Tuition payments, tuition, rather than relying on taxation through public (government) funding; at some private schools students may be eligible for a scholarship, lowering this tuition fee, dependent on a student's talents or abilities (e.g., sports scholarship, art scholarship, academic scholarship), need for financial aid, or Scholarship Tax Credit, tax credit scholarships that might be available. Roughly one in 10 U.S. families have chosen to enroll their childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marist Catholic College North Shore
Marist Catholic College North Shore (often shortened to Marist North Shore or abbreviated as MCCNS) is an independent Systemic Schools, Australia, systemic Roman Catholic Church in Australia, Roman Catholic K–12 Mixed-sex education, coeducational precinct (day school), located in North Sydney, Australia. Established in 1888, Marist Catholic College North Shore is conducted by Sydney Catholic Schools, based on the teachings of its patrons Marcellin Champagnat, St. Marcellin Champagnat and Mary MacKillop, St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. The school caters to roughly 1300 students from Kindergarten to Year 12. The precinct is administered by the Catholic Education Office for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney, and is affiliated with the Association of Marist Schools of Australia (AMSA), as well as the Metropolitan Catholic Colleges Sports Association (MCC). History Marist Brother's School North Sydney (1888–1916) Marist Brother's School North S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De La Salle College Ashfield
De La Salle College was an independent Roman Catholic Church in Australia, Roman Catholic Comprehensive School#Australia, comprehensive Single-sex school, single-sex secondary day school for boys, located in Ashfield, New South Wales, Ashfield, an Inner West (Sydney), inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1916 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, De La Salle Brothers and Lazarists, Vincentian Fathers, the college catered to students in Year 7 to Year 12 from the inner-west Parishes of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney. The college was under the patronage of the Catholic Bishops and Archbishops of Sydney, Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher. De La Salle College was one of 18 Lasallian Schools in Australia, and in the 1970s became the first Catholic high school in Australia to have a Laity, lay headmaster. On 8 June 2022, it was announced that the college would amalgamate with adjacent girl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham
Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham (also known as CBHS Lewisham), is a private Roman Catholic comprehensive single-sex secondary day school for boys, located in Lewisham, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1891 by the Christian Brothers, the school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,350 boys from Year 5 to Year 12. The school is the oldest of the Christian Brothers schools operating in Sydney. Principals The following individuals have served as Principal of Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham: Crest and motto The school motto ''Conanti Corona'', translates as "A crown to the one who strives", which is used as an expression to help students to try their best in all aspects of life. The school crest is adapted from the Christian Brothers’ crest, highlighting the Celtic Cross and the Irish heritage of the Christian Brothers. The crest also contains the two symbols for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marist College Kogarah
Marist College Kogarah is an independent Roman Catholic single sex secondary day school for boys, located in Bexley, a suburb located in the St George region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The college was founded in 1909, and has a tradition based on the teachings of the French educator Saint Marcellin Champagnat, the founder of the Marist Brothers. The school offers education to approximately 1,200 students from Year 7 to Year 12. History Marist College Kogarah was established in 1908 as the Kogarah Boys' School, a primary school for boys. The Marist Brothers agreed to establish the school after requests by John O'Driscoll, parish priest of the new parish of Kogarah. During 1908 a hundred pupils were enrolled, it then being the only Catholic boys school in New South Wales south west of . As demand for secondary education grew in the region, junior secondary classes were added to the school in the late 1920s. By 1938 it was a full secondary school, presenting pupi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
''The Daily Telegraph'', also nicknamed ''The Tele'', is an Australian tabloid newspaper published by Nationwide News Pty Limited (NWN), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. It is published Monday through Saturday and is available throughout Sydney, across most of regional and remote New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. A 2013 poll conducted by Essential Research found that the ''Telegraph'' was Australia's least-trusted major newspaper, with 49% of respondents citing "a lot of" or "some" trust in the paper. Amongst those ranked by Nielsen, the ''Telegraph'' website is the sixth most popular Australian news website with a unique monthly audience of 2,841,381 readers. History ''The Daily Telegraph'' was founded in 1879, by John Mooyart Lynch, a former printer, editor and journalist who had once worked on the ''Melbourne Daily Telegraph''. Lynch had failed in an attempt to become a politician and was loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Higher School Certificate (New South Wales)
The Higher School Certificate (HSC) is the credential awarded to secondary school students who successfully complete senior high school level studies (Years 10, 11 and 12 or equivalent) in New South Wales and some ACT schools in Australia, as well as some international schools in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, and Papua New Guinea. It was first introduced in 1967, and is currently developed and managed by the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA). Structure The majority of students undertake HSC-related courses over the final three years of high school, though it is possible to undertake different study patterns over different time periods or through different teaching organisations. To be eligible for the HSC, students must: * Satisfactorily complete Year 9, or obtain equivalent qualifications recognised by the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA). * Attend a government school, an accredited non-government school, a NESA recognised school outside NSW, or a TAFE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universities Admission Index
The Universities Admission Index (UAI) was used in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, as the primary criterion for entry into most undergraduate-entry university programs. It was a number between 0 and 100 (though those below 30 were not reported), occurring in increments of 0.05 and indicating the rounded percentile rank of a student who undertook the Higher School Certificate (New South Wales), Higher School Certificate or ACT Year 12 Certificate with a valid quantity and combination of units of study. It was replaced in N.S.W with the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) in 2009. Prior to the UAI the ACT used its own Tertiary Entrance Rank Overview The UAI was awarded to students on the completion of the HSC in NSW and the completion of an ACT Year 12 Certificate with a "Tertiary Package" in the ACT — both at the end of year 12. It provided a percentile ranking of peer students of the same age. In NSW, the UAI was determined by a combination o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcellin College, Randwick
Marcellin College Randwick is an independent systemic Catholic secondary day school for boys, located in Randwick, a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded by the Marist Brothers in 1923, the college is overseen by the Sydney Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of Sydney. The school currently caters for approximately 960 students from Years 7 to 12. The college is affiliated with the Association of Marist Schools of Australia (AMSA) and was previously a member of the Metropolitan Catholic Colleges Sports Association (MCC). History Marist Brothers founded the college as part of the worldwide Congregation of Marist Colleges which began in 1816 under the guidance of the French priest, Marcellin Champagnat SM. Archbishop Kelly visited Randwick in 1921, and pressed for the establishment of a school for boys. Land became available in Alison Rd and on 4 November 1922 Dr Sheehan laid the first stone which now forms part of the College Wall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignatius O'Connor
Brother Ignatius O'Connor FMS (16 July 1896 – 19 March 1949), was the religious name of Vincent Ignatius O'Connor, an Australian Marist Brother who worked in Sydney and Queensland. He was the founding headmaster of the Catholic boys' school Marist College Ashgrove in 1940, having previously been headmaster at Marcellin College Randwick. Born in Sydney, Vincent Ignatius O'Connor was educated at the Marist Brothers' Juniorate at Hunters Hill, and began his novitiate in 1914. Brother Ignatius was on staff at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill from 1926 to 1931, and obtained degrees in Arts and Economics at the University of Sydney. Appointed as director of the Brothers' college at Randwick from 1932 to 1937, he achieved remarkable success in expanding the school through significant building projects during these depression years, attracting support ranging from the local community level to members of parliament and the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game. After visiting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunters Hill, New South Wales
Hunters Hill is a suburb of Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Hunters Hill is located north-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the Municipality of Hunter's Hill. Hunters Hill is situated on a small peninsula that separates the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers. It can be reached by bus or by ferry. History The area's Aboriginal name is 'Mookaboola' or 'Moocooboola', which means ''meeting of waters. Hunters Hill was named after John Hunter, the second Governor of New South Wales, who was in office between 1795 and 1800. The area that is now Hunters Hill was settled in 1835. One of the earliest settlers was Mary Reibey, the first female retailer in Sydney. She built a cottage—later known as Fig Tree House—on land that fronted the Lane Cove River; Reiby Street is named after her. During the 1840s, bushrangers and convicts who had escaped from the penal settlement on C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
