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Wesley College (other)
Wesley College may refer to: Australia * Wesley College, Adelaide, a former Methodist theological college in Adelaide, South Australia * Wesley College, Melbourne, a private school in Melbourne, Victoria * Wesley College, Perth Wesley College, informally known as Wesley, is an independent, Day school, day and boarding school for boys and girls (co-ed to Year 6 and boys only Years 7–12), situated in South Perth, Western Australia, South Perth, a suburb of Perth, Wes ..., a private school in Perth, Western Australia * Wesley College, University of Sydney, a residential college in Sydney, New South Wales United Kingdom * Wesley College (Bristol), a former theological college in Bristol * Wesley College, Sheffield, a former school in South Yorkshire United States * Wesley College (Delaware), a former private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware, now part of Delaware State University * Wesley College (Mississippi), a former bible college Other countries * Wesley Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley College, Adelaide
Wesley College, in Adelaide, South Australia, was a Methodist Church of Australasia theological college, which, with the Parkin College, was the predecessor of Uniting College for Leadership and Theology. History Wesley college was a theological college of the Methodist Church of Australasia from 1927 to 1968. It was the successor institution to the Methodist Training Home at Brighton. In 1926, the struggling Chapman-Alexander Bible Institute transferred the property at 20 King William Road, Wayville to the Methodist Church for use as a theological college. In May 1927, the students transferred from Brighton and Wesley College was formed. Its official title was "Wesley College: With Which is Incorporated the Australasian Chapman-Alexander Bible Institute". From 1930, staff of the Congregational Union of Australia The Congregational Union of Australia was a Congregational church, Congregational Christian denomination, denomination in Australia that stemmed from the Congrega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley College, Dublin
Wesley College is an independent co-educational secondary school for day and boarding students in Ballinteer, County Dublin, Ireland. Wesley College is under the control of a Board of Governors, appointed each year by the Methodist Church in Ireland. Wesley College was founded on 1 October 1845 and counts two Nobel laureates among its alumni. Strong emphasis is put on religious education for all denominations and both extra-curricular activities and sport play an important part in this school. The college offers pupils an opportunity to explore the humanities, sciences, technology, business studies, English literature, music and the arts. Wesley College offers a range of extracurricular and sporting activities in the belief that these assist a "sound general education and contribute to the whole person". History Origins On 16 May 1844, a gathering of men met in Belfast and agreed to form a Wesleyan Proprietary Grammar School in Ireland "for the purpose of affording a thoroug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley Girls' Senior High School
Wesley Girls' High School (WGHS) is an educational institution for girls in Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana. It was founded in 1836 by Harriet Wrigley, the wife of a Methodist minister. The school is named after the founder of Methodism, John Wesley. History Wesley Girls' High School was ranked 68th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by ''Africa Almanac'' in 2003, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumnae, school profile, internet and news visibility. Controversy In December 2024, the school was sued by Shafic Osman, a private legal practitioner for allegedly denying Muslim students the right to practice their faith in the school. Notable alumni * Rosina Acheampong, educationist, first female deputy director general of the GES, first Ghanaian headmistress of Wesley Girls High School * Jemila Abdulai, blogger, writer and digital marketer * Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu, justice of the Supreme Court of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellesley College
Wellesley College is a Private university, private Women's colleges in the United States, historically women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry Fowle Durant, Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the Seven Sisters (colleges), Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial grouping of current and former women's colleges in the northeastern United States. Wellesley enrolls over 2,200 students, including transgender, Non-binary gender, non-binary, and genderqueer students since 2015. It contains 60 departmental and interdepartmental majors spanning the liberal arts, as well as over 150 student clubs and organizations. Wellesley athletes compete in the NCAA Division III New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference. Its 500-acre (200 ha) campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and houses the Davis Museum and a Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, botanic gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel University
John Wesley University was a private interdenominational Christian college in High Point, North Carolina. In 2018, the university merged into Piedmont International University in Winston-Salem. Background Known for many years as John Wesley College, the college changed its name to Laurel University in 2011 and John Wesley University in June 2016. Some students lived on the rural campus, while others commuted. Classes were offered in person and online. The university contained schools of management and ministry and created North Carolina's first state-accredited online MBA program using avatar technology with a virtual business internship experiences for students. History John Wesley University was the oldest undergraduate theological education institution in North Carolina. It started in fall 1903 as the Greensboro Bible and Training School in Greensboro as a result of a revival held by Revs. Seth Rees and Charles Weigle. The school closed abruptly after the 1931 spring seme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wesley College
John Wesley College was the seminary of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa situated at Kilnerton in Pretoria, South Africa. It was most commonly referred to as John Wesley College Kilnerton. It opened at Kilnerton in 1994, and was replaced by the Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary, located in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, in January 2009, There is also a John Wesley College in Fiji, South Pacific. History The facility was first established as Kilnerton Institution in 1886 and situated in Weavind Park, a suburb of Tshwane (Pretoria), and was named after the Rev John Kilner, secretary of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society who encouraged the formation of an indigenous clergy in South Africa. The goal was to provide education for the local people. There was also a request from local chiefs for the Methodist Church to provide land where they could safely settle. When Kilnerton Institution was established these people settled at what became Kilnerton Village. K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley College Of Education, Kumasi
Wesley College of Education is a teacher education college in Kumasi, Ashanti Region in Ghana. It was initially established for the training of teachers, catechists and ministers. It was founded by the Methodist Church, located between New Tafo and Old Tafo towns. The beginning of Wesley College of Education goes back to 1918. Following the signing of the lease, the college was named, and the foundation stone of the present site was laid in 1922. The courses offered in the college have gone through upgrading from 2-year Cert ‘B’; 4-year Cert ‘A’; 2-year Post-Secondary Cert ‘A; 3-year Post-Secondary Cert ‘A’; and now Diploma in Basic Education (DBE) by the passage of a Parliamentary Bill, Education Act 778 on 6 January 2008. Currently, Wesley College of Education offers special programmes at the Diploma in Basic Education level. These are Science, Mathematics and French. The college participated in the DFID-funded Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley College, Colombo
Wesley College popularly known as "Wesley" or "The Double Blues", is a Methodist school providing primary and secondary education in Sri Lanka since 1874. History In 1858, Rev. Joseph Rippon wanted to establish a superior educational institution for the Wesleyan Methodist Mission in South Ceylon. On 2 March 1874 (the death anniversary of Rev. John Wesley) Wesley College was founded in the City Mission buildings at Dam Street, Pettah. The school's first principal was Rev. Samuel R. Wilkin and the first vice-principal was Rev. Daniel Henry Pereira. Many years later, under the guiding hand of Rev. Henry Highfield, Wesley was moved from Dam Street, Pettah to its current residence at Karlsruhe Gardens, Borella in 1907. The Methodist institution was envisaged to be a distinctly Christian college, but it currently provides secondary education for over 3,000 Sri Lankan students from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds. Wesley College has established two branches to accommo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley College (Manitoba)
Wesley College was a college that existed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, from 1888 to 1938. In 1924, Wesley College became part of the United Church of Canada.https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/private/c20090e.php The United Church of Canada Act RSM 1990, c. 200 It was one of the University of Winnipeg's founding colleges. History Wesley College was established in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1888 by George Young, a Methodist minister. The college was named for John Wesley, one of the founders of Methodism. Wesley College was originally affiliated with the University of Manitoba. The first year of its program was taught to seven students in the premises of Grace Church. The first instructor and principal was J. W. Sparling. In 1895, construction of Wesley Hall, designed by George Brown and S. Frank Peters and located on Portage Avenue in Winnipeg, was completed. The building was officially opened on June 3, 1896. In 1912, an annex containing classrooms and a dormitory, designed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley College (Belize)
Wesley College is a public coeducational high school located in Yarborough area of Belize City, Belize Belize is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a maritime boundary with Honduras to the southeast. P .... History In June 1882, the Methodist Church inaugurated the first secondary school in Belize, then British Honduras - Wesley High School. The school began with five boys and the Rev. T.N. Roberts as Principal, in a building at the corner of Albert and South Street. The school was later moved to the corner of Regent and Prince Streets and shortly thereafter (approx. 1889) to the present site at Yarborough Road. Although circumstances led to the closure of the school for about 12 years between 1896 and 1909, the commitment of the Methodist Community to education remained strong. By 1925, the enrollment stood at 26 scholars. Throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley College, Melbourne
Wesley College is a co-educational, open-entry private school in Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1866, the college is the only school in Victoria to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) from early childhood to Year 12. The college consists of three main metropolitan campuses in Melbourne, St Kilda Road, Glen Waverley and Elsternwick, residential/boarding facilities (Glen Waverley), three outdoor education sites (Mallana, Chum Creek, & Lochend), a year 9 residential learning campus in Clunes, Victoria, Clunes and the Yiramalay/Wesley Studio School (Yiramalay) in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley Region. Wesley was the first registered school in Australia and is a founding member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria, Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS). It is affiliated with the Independent Primary School Heads of Australia, the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria, the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley College, Auckland
Wesley College is a secondary school in Paerata, at the northern edge of Pukekohe, Auckland Region, New Zealand. The school provides education from year 9 to 13. The school was founded by members of the Methodist Church in 1844, making it one of the country's oldest schools. Initially located in Grafton and then the Three Kings area of Auckland, it closed in 1868 before reopening in 1876 in Three Kings again. From the beginning there was an emphasis on educating Maori boys, and also played a prominent role in educating students from countries of the South Pacific. In 1924 the school was moved to its current location of Paerata, near Pukekohe. In 1985 it was one of the first boys schools in New Zealand to admit girls at the senior level. Prince Albert College Wesley College was located in Upper Queen Street when it closed in 1868; the building and land was donated to the Methodist Church for education purposes. In 1895, a new school with Methodist links started in that buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
