Kölcsey Ferenc National College (

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: ''Colegiul Național Kölcsey Ferenc'', Hungarian: ''Kölcsey Ferenc Főgimnázium'') is a public day

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for students aged 10 to 18, established in 1557 as a reformed school, and located at 2 George Coșbuc Street,

Satu Mare Satu Mare (; ; ; or ) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the region of Maramureș, broadly part of Transylvania ...

, Romania. The school is named after the great Hungarian poet, literary critic, orator, and politician

Ferenc Kölcsey Ferenc Kölcsey (archaically English: Francis Kolcsey, 8 August 1790 in Sződemeter – 24 August 1838) was a Hungarian poet, literary critic, orator, and politician, noted for his support of the liberal current in Hungary regarding the pol ...

. The Kölcsey Ferenc National College is one of the only four national colleges located in

alongside

Mihai Eminescu Mihai Eminescu (; born Mihail Eminovici; 15 January 1850 – 15 June 1889) was a Romanians, Romanian Romanticism, Romantic poet, novelist, and journalist from Moldavia, generally regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Emin ...

Ioan Slavici Ioan Slavici (; 18 January 1848 – 17 August 1925) was a Romanian writer and journalist from Austria-Hungary, later Romania. He made his debut in ''Convorbiri literare'' ("Literary Conversations") (1871), with the comedy ''Fata de birău'' ("Th ...

, and

Doamna Stanca Doamna Stanca (died 1603) was a princess consort of Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia as the wife of Michael the Brave. Tradition says that they were married in the Proieni church, Vâlcea County, in 1584. In 1600, the sometime master of F ...

History

The school was founded, in the second half of the 16th century (around 1557), initially as a lower school (current language school in general) as a subsidiary of the

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. Even if it was occasionally degraded, it always operated, as a general school (lower secondary school), or as a high school, ending with the baccalaureate. The community always took care of the school, because of the interests served. The school has 24 high school classes and 4 secondary school classes. There are 2 physics laboratories, 4 science laboratories, offices of the Romanian and Hungarian languages, biology, chemistry, history, and geography laboratories and a sports hall that is well endowed with

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and

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courts. The college has three main specialisations:

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and

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and

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in both normal and foreign language classes. The college is accredited for ECDL courses, providing students and conditions for staff members to obtain the

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Teachers

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Alumni

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References

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