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Osborne Ladies' College

Junior girls of the school were known as "Middies" from the term Midshipman, with prefects being addressed as Lieutenants, and the head girl being addressed as Lieutenant Commander.


A. V. C. College

A.V.C. College ' A ' Grade by NAAC is a college in Mayiladuthurai, India.

A.K. Nazmul Karim

He was married to Syeda Jahanara Begum (Retired), the Principal of Begum Badrunnesa Government Girls' College.

Anton Buttigieg

He was educated at the Government Primary School, Qala (from 1916 to 1922), the Gozo Seminary (from 1923 to 1927), St Aloysius' College Malta (from 1928 to 1930) and the University of Malta, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1934, and Doctor of Laws in 1940.

Apirana Ngata

Several schools have houses named after him, including Rangiora High School, Tauranga Boys' College, Rotorua Intermediate, Cashmere High School, Te Aute College (where Ngata went), and Te Puke High School.

Charles Prescott

In 1886 he was ordained as a minister and became the founding president and headmaster of the Wesleyan Ladies' College, Burwood.

Chundikuli Girls' College

CGC is situated on Main Street in Chundikuli, an south-eastern suburb of Jaffna.

Coton, Cambridgeshire

From the 16th century until the early years of the 20th century, most of the land in Coton belonged to Cambridge colleges, including St John's, Queens', King's and St Catharine's, which let it for farming.

Courtenay Dempsey

He later moved to Brisbane to play with the Kenmore Bears junior football club while also playing for his school Brisbane Boys' College.

Deborah Turness

Born in Hertfordshire, England, Turness was educated at St Francis' College and the Knights Templar School in Baldock, Hertfordshire.

Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia

The suburb also boasts Saint Thomas' College, one of Sri Lanka's most prestigious primary and secondary schools.

Dhubri district

B. N. College, Dhubri (estd. 1946) at Dhubri is one of the oldest and famous institutes in Assam.

Ediriweera Sarachchandra

He completed his early education at Richmond College in Galle, St. John's College in Panadura, S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia and St. Aloysius' College in Galle.

Edward Goll

In 1915 Henri Verbrugghen, the inaugural Director of the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music in Sydney, offered Goll a post there, but he accepted an alternative offer from the University of Melbourne Conservatorium, and also became musical director for Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne.

Emmet McDermott

Educated at St Ignatius' College and the University of Sydney where he graduated in dentistry, he earned a doctorate of dentistry from Northwestern University in Chicago and became a leader of the dental profession in Australia.

Fusakichi Omori

In fall 1923 Omori attended the Second Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Australia, where he and Edward Pigot, the director of the observatory at Riverview College in Sydney, Australia observed a seismograph recording the major great Kantō earthquake which destroyed Yokohama and Tokyo on 1 September 1923, killing about 140,000 and leaving 1.9 million people homeless.

Hugh Sheridan

In his youth he sang with State Opera Australia, played football for St Ignatius and studied drama at Unley Youth Theatre.

James Jay

He was instrumental in obtaining the endowments for Benjamin Franklin's projected college (now the University of Pennsylvania) in Philadelphia (with William Smith, 1755) and King's (now Columbia) College, New York.

John Archibald Venn

John Archibald Venn CMG FSA JP (10 November 1883 – 15 March 1958), son of John Venn, was a British economist, President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1932 until his death, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University 1941–43, university archivist, and author, alongside his father, of Alumni Cantabrigienses.

John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell

Lord Eatwell was educated at Headlands Grammar School in Swindon in Wiltshire, followed by Queens' College at the University of Cambridge, where he gained a B.A., followed by Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, where he obtained a Ph.D. and returned to Queens' as a research fellow.

John Franklin Alexander Strong

He graduated from the New Brunswick Normal School in 1874.

Jonael Schickler

He graduated with a First and, after a year as a cellist with a Berlin orchestra, Schickler returned to Cambridge (Queens' College, Cambridge) to read for a Doctorate in the Faculty of Divinity, under the supervision of George Pattison.

June Goodfield

After teaching biology at Benenden School, Kent, and Cheltenham Ladies' College, Goodfield lectured in History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds University until 1960.

Leonidas Bott

Born in Adelaide, Bott was educated at Perth Boys' School and Christian Brothers' College, and later received a scholarship to study at the University of Adelaide.

Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich

Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich is a systemic Roman Catholic secondary school for girls', located in Woolwich, a Lower North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Marwari Boys' College

Marwari College is a B++ NAAC graded institution.

Maurice Edwards

Edwards was born on 17 May 1886, he was educated at Ripon Grammar School and Queens' College, University of Cambridge.

Methodist Ladies' College

Scotch Oakburn College, Tasmania (Amalgamation of Methodist Ladies' College, Oakburn College and Scotch College)

Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne

The board at the time of Storelli's sacking consisted of Louise Adler (Melbourne University Press), Brendan Fleiter (Australia Post), Ahmed Fahour (Australia Post), Tony Peake (PricewaterhouseCoopers), Bernard Salt (KPMG), Patricia Cross (NAB, JB Were, Qantas), Patrick Ng (Architect), Belinda Probert (LaTrobe University) and Julie Landvogt (education consultant).

Omokoroa

The local schools in the area are Omokoroa Point School and Omokoroa No. 1, and the nearest zoned secondary schools in the area are Otumoetai College, Tauranga Boys' College and Tauranga Girls' College.

Paul Okon

He represented his high school, Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield during his time as a teenage schoolboy and featured prominently in all teams including the A Grade squad.

Presbyterian Ladies' College

Many of these schools are seen as sister schools to Scotch Colleges and The Scots College.

Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne

The Early Learning Centre (ELC) caters for students from 6 months to five years of age.

The building was completed in time for the school's first year, 1875, with Charles Henry Pearson as founding Principal.

Priyani Soysa

After completing her studies in Princess of Wales College, Moratuwa, she entered the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo where she graduated with First Class Honours in the final MBBS exam.

Sacred Heart Girls' College, Hamilton

Sacred Heart Girls College is a state integrated Catholic Girls' secondary school in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Sheikh Anwarul Haq

He graduated from D.A.V. College, Jullundur in 1936 with Economics and Political Science as his majors.

Stephen Gomersall

Sir Stephen Gomersall, KCMG was educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook and Queens' College, Cambridge.

Stephen Kinnock

After attending Drayton Manor High School, and having achieved a degree in Modern Languages from Queens' College, University of Cambridge and an MA from the College of Europe in 1993, Stephen Kinnock worked as a research assistant at the European Parliament in Brussels before becoming a British Council Development and Training Services executive based in Brussels from 1997.

Studholme College

A search was conducted for a Lady Professor of Home Science and Professor Winifred Boys-Smith, a science and domestic science teacher at Cheltenham Ladies' College, was elected to the new chair.

Susan Cullen-Ward

She attended Presbyterian Ladies' College at Orange, then Sydney Technical College, before teaching art at a private studio.

Turkey Street railway station

The trains are often used by St Ignatius' College and Lea Valley High School (prev The Bullsmoor School) pupils and is popular with commuters due to the amount of local parking.

Uduvil Girls' College

The ACM established missions in other parts of the Jaffna peninsula including one in Vaddukoddai.

The ACM established numerous schools on the peninsula, the first school being the Common Free School (Union College) in Tellippalai.

In 1820 the Uduvil Seminary was established in Uduvil.

University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music

Donald Lawrence (B.F.A. Musical Theatre) - Multi Stellar award winning Gospel Music Singer, Composer and Choir Director


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