Holy Cross College (UK)

Holy Cross College is a Catholic Sixth Form College on Manchester Road in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. The college regularly ranks as one of the top ten sixth forms in the country, placing 8th on the list in 2007,^[1] and being placed 2nd in the country in 2008.

Admissions

It has around 2,200 pupils. It offers education for pupils ages 16–19 including A Levels and a limited selection of Undergraduate degrees.

Notable alumni

Anna Friel - actress (Brookside, Pushing Daisies)^[2]

History

The Holy Cross College was formed in 1979 as a sixth form college with just over two-hundred students. The site and buildings had previously been the Bury Convent Grammar School, a direct grant Catholic girls school founded in 1878 by the Daughters of the Cross.

Academic performance

Holy Cross College entered the top 10 sixth form colleges in the country, placing 8th on the list in 2007,^[3] and was placed 2nd in the country in 2008. Holy Cross has been voted a 5 star best small company to work for in 2010.^[4] Students from the college regularly gain places at the Sutton 13 universities (Cambridge, Imperial, Oxford, LSE, UCL, York, Warwick, Bristol, Nottingham, St. Andrews, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Durham) and around 85% of students enter into some form of Higher Education . Holy Cross College has close educational links with Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio.

References

↑ "Holy Cross one of top ten colleges". Bury Times. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
↑ "When Anna and Beth kissed Margaret: Anna Friel plays Brookside's lesbian pin-up. Monique Roffey met her". The Independent. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
↑ "Holy Cross one of top ten colleges". Bury Times. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
↑ "Best Companies Accredited Companies 2014: 3 Star". Bestcompanies.co.uk. Retrieved 2 December 2014.

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Schools in Bury Borough

Secondary schools	Broad Oak High School Bury Church of England High School Castlebrook High School Derby High School Elton High School Manchester Mesivta School Parrenthorn High School Philips High School Prestwich Arts College St Gabriel's RC High School St Monica's High School Tottington High School Woodhey High School

Independent schools	Bury Grammar School Darul Uloom Bury

FE & sixth form colleges	Bury College Holy Cross College

Universities and colleges in North West England

Universities	Bolton BPP Central Lancashire Chester Cumbria Edge Hill Lancaster Law Liverpool Liverpool Hope Liverpool John Moores Manchester Manchester Metropolitan Salford

University colleges	Royal Northern College of Music

Further Education colleges	Accrington & Rossendale Blackburn Blackpool & The Fylde Bolton Burnley Bury Carlisle Furness Hopwood Hall Hugh Baird Kendal Knowsley Lakes Lancaster & Morecambe Liverpool Macclesfield Manchester Mid Cheshire Myerscough Nelson & Colne Oldham Preston's Reaseheath Riverside Runshaw St Helens Salford South Cheshire Southport Stockport Tameside Trafford Warrington West Cheshire West Lancashire Wigan & Leigh Wirral Metropolitan

Sixth form colleges	Aquinas Ashton Barrow-in-Furness Birkenhead Blackpool Bolton Bolton Wanderers Cardinal Newman Carmel Cheadle & Marple Connell Holy Cross Hyde Clarendon King George V Loreto Oldham Priestley Rainford Rochdale Sir John Deane's St John Rigby St Mary's South Sefton Thomas Whitham Winstanley Xaverian

Coordinates: 53°35′05″N 2°17′57″W / 53.5848°N 2.2991°W / 53.5848; -2.2991

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