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School
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Ladies'
College is one of about ten private schools in Sri Lanka. Founded
by the Church Mission Society of the Anglican Church, it has a long
tradition of empowering girls, of all races and creeds, through
education. Currently, the school has about 1700 students on its
roll and classes range in size from 30 to around 20 to 25 in the
ten A-level classes. Many of our students go on to university, either
in Sri Lanka or to universities in the U.K, the U.S.A, Australia
and India. Most of our students begin their school career at Ladies'
College in our pre-school. They then enter the main school when
formal schooling starts at 5+ years of age and spend fourteen years
in school. |
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| At Ladies' College, we are committed to nurturing students who are recognizable not only by their achievements both in academic and extra curricular areas, but also by their strength of character, spiritual awareness and commitment to their religion, sense of social responsibility, and their independence of thought. |
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Throughout the last century, the past pupils of this Institution have broken ground as they led the way and paved the path for other women. The first woman surgeon, the first woman barrister, the first woman to be admitted as an advocate to the supreme court , the first woman to win a scholarship to Oxford University in open competition, the first Sri Lankan Bishop of the Church of Ceylon, the first ordained female Anglican, the first woman engineer to graduate from the University of Ceylon, the first woman to obtain a doctorate in Science and the first woman Vice Chancellor of a Sri Lankan university are all products of Ladies' College. |
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Although it is a strongly Anglican school, a multi-religious, multi racial and therefore multi-cultural ethos is fostered at Ladies' College. Therefore, students who have schooled here rarely find it difficult to adjust to a different cultural background in another part of the world. |
