Academic Achievement
The College is a grammar school, and therefore admits pupils using academic selection.
Methody has a reputation for academic excellence, and was ranked 2nd in Northern Ireland in "The Times" state school league tables 2009.
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Famous quotes containing the words academic and/or achievement:
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athleticsa complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and powerthe womens programs are just as doomed as the mens are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if thats the kind of success for womens sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
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