Editing Greater Manchester (section)

==Education==
{{See also|List of schools in Greater Manchester}}
Greater Manchester has six universities: the [[Manchester Metropolitan University]], the [[University of Bolton]], the [[University of Law]], the [[University of Manchester]] the [[University of Salford]] and [[UCFB|The University Campus of Football Business]] . Together with the [[Royal Northern College of Music]] they had a combined population of students of 101,165 in 2007 – the third highest number in England behind Greater London (360,890) and the [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]] (140,980),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hesa.ac.uk/dox/dataTables/studentsAndQualifiers/download/institution0607.xls |title=Table 0a&nbsp;– All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2006/07 |year=2008 |format=XLS |work=Students and Qualifiers Data Tables |publisher=[[Higher Education Statistics Agency]] |access-date=21 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709132444/http://www.hesa.ac.uk/dox/dataTables/studentsAndQualifiers/download/institution0607.xls |archive-date=9 July 2013}}</ref> and the thirteenth highest in England per head of population.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tight |first=Malcolm |date=July 2007 |title=The (Re)Location of Higher Education in England (Revisited) |journal=Higher Education Quarterly |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=250–265 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-2273.2007.00354.x}}</ref> The majority of students are concentrated on [[Wilmslow Road, Manchester|Oxford Road]] in Manchester, Europe's largest urban higher education precinct.{{sfn|Hartwell|2001|p=105}}

As of 2010, [[further education]] in Greater Manchester is co-ordinated by the Greater Manchester Colleges Group, a [[joint venture]] composed of an association of 24 colleges in the region.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://manchestermule.com/article/manchester-colleges-strong-management |work=Manchester Mule|author-first1=Richard|author-last1=Goulding|access-date=29 June 2013 |date=27 May 2010 |title=Manchester College's 'strong management' |archive-date=6 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130806004820/http://manchestermule.com/article/manchester-colleges-strong-management |url-status=live}}</ref> Primary and secondary education within Greater Manchester are the responsibility of the constituent boroughs which form [[local education authority|local education authorities]] and administer schools. The county has several independent schools such as [[Bolton School]], [[Bury Grammar School]], [[Manchester Grammar School]], [[Oldham Hulme Grammar School]], [[St Bede's College, Manchester|St Bede's College]], [[Stockport Grammar School]] and Chethams School of Music.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Independent schools in Greater Manchester |url=https://www.schoolsearch.co.uk/independent-schools-in-greater-manchester |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=www.schoolsearch.co.uk |archive-date=23 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223205413/https://www.schoolsearch.co.uk/independent-schools-in-greater-manchester |url-status=live }}</ref>