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St Mary's Convent High School (alternatively St Mary's Convent Girl's High School) is a school located on Foujdari Road in Hyderabad in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It was founded as a part of St Bonaventure's High School specifically aimed at the educational needs of girls in the city. The convent is run by resident nuns of the Catholic diocese of Hyderabad. ==History== : ''For a history of the parent school, see History of St Bonaventure's High School'' During the 1920s and early 1930s the missionary establishments in the southern Indian subcontinent laid foundations for a school in Hyderabad directly run under the church to provide education for the local people and impart religious teaching.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Vanishing Glory of Hyderabad (Sindh, Pakistan) )〕 At the time the school was established, there were about 50 schools for boys and 6 for girls.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hyderābād City - Imperial Gazetteer of India v. 13, p. 321 )〕 A parish priest named Archilles Meersman, principal of Saint Patrick's High School, Karachi, revived the state of the school in the years of the partition and introduced better curricula, revised under the Catholic Board of Education. This new school was named St Bonaventure's High School. Once Pakistan acquired independence, it was clear that the nation would be an Islamic sovereign state, so a need arose for the gender-based separation of the coeducational school. The new wing founded for girls was named St Mary's Convent High School after Mary, the mother of Christ. The Catholic Board of Education took charge of the development and running of the school and erected a church in the memory of Saint Francis Xavier for his services in central Asia and India. The church and the school buildings are regarded as cultural heritage monuments in Hyderabad.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of old historical building ) 〕 Running under the Christian administration, the schools imparted very high standards of education to upper and middle class students until 1972, when these were nationalised over by the socialist government of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. It was not until 1992 that with the change of government the schools were denationalised and the ownership was returned to the Catholic diocese. Most Christian institutions in other parts of the country were denationalised in June 2001.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=News from Pakistani missionary schools )〕 Privatized again in the 1990s, the schools could not retain the quality education seen before nationalization and have not recovered yet.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Mary's Convent High School, Hyderabad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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