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Catholic Social Teaching. The College had broken its affiliation with the University; Plater students were no longer eligible to sit the University's examinations and the College management adopted a more generalist education approach, transitioning the College into a Short Course Campus. Thereafter, following a controversial period, it closed in July 2005 following a negative report from the Adult Learning Inspectorate released in November 2004 and the resignation of its principal,
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The following subjects could be studied at Plater: Theology, Moral
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The college was founded in 1921 by Father Leo O'Hea, S.J. (1881–1976), director of the
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was the patron saint of the college, with a statue of the saint at the entrance. Students did not have to be
Catholic to attend the college, but students were supported by resident priests and also a community of apostolic sisters who were affiliated with the college.
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