Liverpool Hope University

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  • In Merseyside

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Catholic Certificate in Religious Studies (CCRS)

Eimer Hone

22/10/2022
About the course: Really enjoying this course. It is handy to have the course be available online so I can continue my other studies while completing this course.
Course taken: October 2022
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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History

Whilst Liverpool Hope University is one of the newest universities in the country, our history stretches back more than one hundred and fifty years, when the Church of England Diocese of Chester and the Roman Catholic Sisters of Notre Dame established separate teacher education Colleges for women. These Colleges, S.Katharine's (1844) and Notre Dame (1856) were in Warrington and Liverpool City Centre respectively. They were supplemented on Merseyside when a second Catholic teacher education College, Christ's College, on a site adjacent to S. Katharine's, admitted its first students in 1965.In 1980 these three Colleges joined in an ecumenical federation under the holding title of Liverpool Institute of Higher Education (LIHE). The late Archbishop Derek Worlock and Bishop David Sheppard wrote of this as being "a sign of hope" (Better Together)....

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Mission StatementLiverpool Hope University is an ecumenical Christian Foundation which strives:* to provide opportunities for the well-rounded personal development of Christians and students from other faiths and beliefs, educating the whole person in mind, body and spirit, irrespective of age, social or ethnic origins or physical capacity, including in particular those who might otherwise not have had an opportunity to enter higher education;* to be a national provider of a wide range of high quality programmes responsive to the needs of students, including the education, training and professional development of teachers for Church and state schools;* to sustain an academic community, as a sign of hope, enriched by Christian values and worship, which supports teaching and learning, scholarship and research, encourages the understanding of Christian and other faiths and beliefs and promotes religious and social harmony;...

Liverpool Hope University