Our Lady of Apostle (OLA) College of Education

Our Lady of Apostles College of Education widely known As OLA College of Education is an all-female Catholic Higher Institution founded by Catholic Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles in 1924 at Saint Marys Convent in Cape Coast. It all began when Rev. Mother Aquiline Tobin, an Irish OLA Missionary Sister anticipated the need to train Ghanaian female teachers to help the expatriate OLA Nuns in the running of their Convent elementary Schools. These schools were mostly located along the coastal towns in the then Gold Coast. The College started as a simple Catholic Training Centre with six(6) school leavers who had completed their School Leaving Certificate at Saint Marys Middle School with distinction. Basically, the Nuns offered professional guidance to these outstanding graduates by preparing them to teach the fundamentals of formal education, namely; Reading, Arithmetic, Writing, Moral Education and personal hygiene