OLA College of Education - Cape Coast

Our Lady of Apostles College of Education, widely known as OLA College of Education, is an all-female Catholic Institution founded by the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles in 1924 at Saint Mary’s Convent School, Cape Coast.

It all began when Rev. Mother Acquiline Tobin, an Irish Missionary of OLA Sisters, anticipated the need to train Ghanaian female teachers to help the expatriate OLA Nuns in their convent elementary schools which were mostly located along the coastal towns in the then Gold Coast. The College started as a Catholic Training Centre with six (6) school leavers who had completed their School Leaving Certificate at Saint Mary’s Middle School with distinction.