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St Joseph's College, Stoke-on-Trent
St Joseph's College is a mixed grammar school located in Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. The school's oldest and original building in this location is a Grade II listed structure which was previously a residential property before it was bought by the Christian Brothers in 1931. History The school was founded by the Christian Brothers in 1932. It moved into the present buildings in 1936, and was recognised by the Board of Education in the following year. St Joseph's was a direct grant grammar school until the 11-plus was abolished in Stoke in 1967, after which the grant was gradually phased out. The school re-opened as a fully independent school in 1980, and in the following years began to admit girls. In the early 1980s the school pulled out of the Catholic reorganisation of secondary provision and decided to stay private. When grant maintained schools were allowed it started to admit non-fee paying pupils. It is the only grammar school in the area as the counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammar School
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic secondary modern schools. The main difference is that a grammar school may select pupils based on academic achievement whereas a secondary modern may not. The original purpose of medieval grammar schools was the teaching of Latin. Over time the curriculum was broadened, first to include Ancient Greek, and later English and other European languages, natural sciences, mathematics, history, geography, art and other subjects. In the late Victorian era grammar schools were reorganised to provide secondary education throughout England and Wales; Scotland had developed a different system. Grammar schools of these types were also established in British territories overseas, where they hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph & Courier''. Considered a newspaper of record over '' The Times'' in the UK in the years up to 1997, ''The Telegraph'' generally has a reputation for high-quality journalism, and has been described as being "one of the world's great titles". The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", appears in the editorial pages and has featured in every edition of the newspaper since 19 April 1858. The paper had a circulation of 363,183 in December 2018, descending further until it withdrew from newspaper circulation audits in 2019, having declined almost 80%, from 1.4 million in 1980.United Newspapers PLC and Fleet Holdings PLC', Monopolies and Mergers Commission (1985), pp. 5–16. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educational Institutions Established In 1932
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into forma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Russell And Ciaran Algar
Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar are a British folk music duo. Algar is a multi-instrumentalist who plays fiddle, guitar, banjo, and percussion. They won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2013, and in 2014 won the Horizon award in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. They were nominated for the Best Duo award in 2015. As well as working as the duo, Russell and Algar have been involved in other projects. Russell put together ''Shake the Chains'', a project which brought together musicians including Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson and Peggy Seeger to write and sing songs of togetherness, protest and community. Russell was also involved in a revival of Peter Bellamy's folk ballad opera ''The Transports''. Algar is also a member of Sam Kelly and The Lost Boys. Russell joined The Band of Love, who released their debut album ''Folk Fever'' in 2018. Albums * ''The Queen's Lover'' (2012) * ''The Call'' (2014) * ''The Silent Majority'' (2016) * ''Utopia and Wasteland'' (2018) References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Prime
Geoffrey Arthur Prime (born 21 February 1938) is a former British spy who disclosed information to the Soviet Union while working for the Royal Air Force and later for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency responsible for signals intelligence during the 1960s and '70s. Prime was convicted in the early 1980s under charges of espionage and child sexual abuse. He was sentenced to a total of 38 years imprisonment, and released from prison in 2001. Life Prime grew up in Staffordshire. After attending St Joseph's College, Stoke-on-Trent and having satisfactorily completed O-levels in languages, he became a junior wages clerk at a factory. In 1956, he was selected for National Service in the Royal Air Force (RAF). Due to colour blindness, he became a store man in the RAF. He was later sent to learn Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL) in Crail, Scotland. He was appointed as an acting sergeant after having demonstrated pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry McKirdy
Harry McKirdy (born 29 March 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Hibernian. McKirdy is a product of the Aston Villa and Stoke City academies. While in Aston Villa's academy he played on loan at English Football League sides Stevenage, Crewe Alexandra and Newport County. He played for Carlisle United on a permanent basis during the 2019–20 season and then signed with Port Vale in September 2020, though he would only stay there for one season. He joined Swindon Town in August 2021 on a one year contract. He was named in the EFL League Two Team of the Season and as Swindon Town's Player of the Season for the 2021–22 campaign. He signed with Scottish Premiership club Hibernian in September 2022. Career Aston Villa McKirdy was born in London and brought up in the Stoke-on-Trent area, where he attended St Joseph's College. He was on the books of Stoke City from the age of seven to fourteen, and then joined Aston Villa's academy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archbishop Kevin McDonald
Kevin John Patrick McDonald KC*HS (b. 18 August 1947, Stoke-on-Trent) is the Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark, England. Life Born in Stoke-on-Trent, from 1958 to 1965 McDonald attended the Christian Brothers' Grammar School there, St. Joseph's College, Stoke-on-Trent. He read Latin at Birmingham University from 1965 to 1968. In 1968 he was accepted as a student for the Archdiocese of Birmingham and was ordained priest on 20 July 1974 in the Metropolitan Cathedral of St Chad in Birmingham. From 1976 to 1985 he was a lecturer in moral theology at Oscott College. He became secretary at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in Rome 1985–1993. McDonald earned a Doctorate of Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum'' in 1989 with a dissertation entitled ''Communion and friendship : a framework for ecumenical dialogue in ethics''. In 1993 he returned to England and became the Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Jackson (athlete)
Emma Jackson (born 7 June 1988 at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire) is an 800m runner who reached the semi-finals of the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. She also represented England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, ..., finishing 4th in the final of the 800 metres. She has represented Great Britain at every age group and in 2007 was the European Junior silver medal winner and the World's fastest Junior 800 metres runner. Education Jackson attended St. Joseph's College, Stoke-on-Trent and then achieved a first class honours degree in Accounting and Finance at Keele University. Athletics In 2006, Jackson won a gold medal in the 800m at the English Schools Athletic Championships. In 2007 Jackson was 2nd in the European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Green
Terence Anthony Green (born October 1951) is a British businessman, a former chief executive (CEO) of BHS and Debenhams. Early life Terence Anthony Green was born in October 1951. He was educated at St Joseph's College, Stoke-on-Trent, and the University of Liverpool. Career Green started his career at C&A before moving to Dorothy Perkins in 1979, which was part of the Burton Group. In 1992, he was appointed chief executive of Debenhams, the department store group that demerged from Burton in 1997, making Green the CEO of a listed company. Green was a director of Arcadia Group from February 1993 to 26 January 1998. In 2002, he was in talks with its CEO Philip Green, no relation, to buy Top Shop and Top Man, which he ran when he worked for Burton Group. In 2007, Green was head of clothing for Tesco Tesco plc () is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, England. In 2011 it was the third-largest retai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kian Emadi
Kian Emadi-Coffin (born 29 July 1992) is a former British track cyclist. He has represented Great Britain and England at international level, and is a three-time British National Track champion. Originally a sprinter, he transferred following injury to the endurance squad, and in 2018 won a gold medal as part of the team pursuit squad for Great Britain at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Career Born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, Emadi-Coffin started cycling competitively at the age of 13, and raced in many disciplines (track, road and cyclo-cross), before concentrating on the sprint disciplines of track racing. Emadi moved to Manchester at the age of 18 as a member of the British Cycling Podium Programme. He represented Great Britain at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He won his first senior medal, a silver in the team sprint, at the latter event. After suffering a back injury in September 2014, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Croll
Daniel Francis Croll (born 18 July 1990) is a British singer-songwriter. He began his career in 2011 when he was named Songwriter of the Year by the Musicians' Benevolent Fund while attending the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. His debut album '' Sweet Disarray'' was released in 2014 by the Universal Music Group subsidiaries Deram Records/ Decca Records (UK) and Capitol Records (US). Since that time, he has released a number of works with Communion Music including the studio albums ''Emerging Adulthood'' (2017) and ''Grand Plan'' (2020). Since 2018, he has been based in the United States. Career Early career Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, Croll moved to Liverpool when he was 18 to attend the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). While at LIPA, he won the national Songwriter of the Year award from the Musicians' Benevolent Fund and was one of eight students picked to have a one-to-one with LIPA founder Sir Paul McCartney. Croll's first r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only the online edition. The newspaper was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Irish Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to the Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev in 2010. In 2017, Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel bought a 30% stake in it. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. The website and mobile app had a combined monthly reach of 19,826,000 in 2021. History 1986 to 1990 Launched in 1986, the first issue of ''The Independent'' was published on 7 October in broadsheet format.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 330 It was pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
