Editing Peterborough (section)

=== Education ===
{{See also|List of schools in Peterborough}}
[[File:Anglia Ruskin University Peterborough.jpg|thumb|University House, [[Anglia Ruskin University]] Peterborough.]]
Peterborough has one independent boarding school: [[The Peterborough School]] at Westwood House, founded in 1895. The school caters for girls and now boys up to the age of 18. Peterborough's state schools have recently undergone significant change. Five of the city's fifteen secondary schools were closed in July 2007, to be demolished over the coming years. [[John Mansfield School|John Mansfield]] (now an adult learning centre), Hereward (formerly Eastholm, now City of Peterborough Academy, sponsored by the Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust) and [[Deacon's School|Deacon's]] were replaced with the flagship [[Thomas Deacon Academy]], designed by [[Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank|Lord Foster of Thames Bank]] which opened in September 2007.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/6629655.stm |title=No playground for 'super school' |date=6 May 2007 |access-date=19 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119235621/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/6629655.stm |archive-date=19 January 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Queen Katharine Academy]] (previously The Voyager School), which has specialist media arts status, replaced Bretton Woods and Walton Community School. It is part of the Thomas Deacon Education Trust. The schools that remain have been extended and enlarged. Over £200&nbsp;million was spent and the changes on-going to 2010.<ref>[http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/page-5618 Secondary School Review] Peterborough City Council (Retrieved 15 April 2007). {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070416115959/http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/page-5618 |date=16 April 2007 }}</ref> [[The King's School, Peterborough|The King's School]] is one of seven schools established, or in some cases re-endowed and renamed, by King [[Henry VIII]] during the [[dissolution of the monasteries]] to pray for his soul.<ref>[[Orme, Nicholas]] The King's school has an "outstanding" status and is widely considered the best in Peterborough.[http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/themes/95/95744.html School founders and patrons in England, 597–1560] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210091634/http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/themes/95/95744.html |date=10 February 2007 }} ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' Oxford University Press, October 2006.</ref> In 2006, 39.4% of Peterborough [[local education authority]] pupils attained five grades A* to C, including English and Mathematics, in the [[General Certificate of Secondary Education]], lower than the national average of 45.8%.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6250433.stm "How different LEAs performed"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011180823/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6250433.stm |date=11 October 2007 }}, ''BBC News Online'', 19 January 2007.</ref>

The city has two colleges of [[further education|further]] and [[higher education]], [[Peterborough College]] (established in 1946 as Peterborough Technical College) and [[City College Peterborough]] (known as Peterborough College of Adult Education until 2010). By 2004, Peterborough College attracted over 15,000 students each year from the UK and abroad and was ranked in the top five per cent of colleges in the UK.<ref>Nasta, Tony [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20150407120515/http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/index.php?q%3Dfiledownloading/%26id%3D796593%26type%3D1%26refer%3D0 Statutory Inspection of Peterborough Regional College] under Section 3 of the School Inspections Act 1996 (1996 cap.57) [[Office for Standards in Education]] and Adult Learning Inspectorate, 17 October 2006.</ref> Greater Peterborough [[University Technical College]] is a new education facility set to open in September 2015.<ref>[http://gputc.com/about-us About us] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618195818/http://gputc.com/about-us |date=18 June 2015 }} Greater Peterborough University Technical College (Retrieved 21 April 2015).</ref>

In 2020, planning permission was granted for a new university campus, ARU Peterborough, which subsequently opened its doors in September 2022 on Bishops Road, a five-minute walk from the City Centre.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aru.ac.uk/student-life/life-on-campus/aru-peterborough-campus |title=ARU Peterborough campus |publisher=[[Anglia Ruskin University]] |access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> It is operated by [[Anglia Ruskin University]] with four faculties: Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Creative and Digital Arts and Sciences; Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability; Health and Education. The new campus took its first cohort of students in 2022, expecting to recruit up to 12,500 by 2028. ARU Peterborough is not expected to receive independent degree awarding powers before 2030, when a review is to take place to determine its future as part of Anglia Ruskin University or whether it should become an independent entity.{{cn|date=December 2024}} <!-- Until it becomes independent, we can't say that it is a "new University". Legally, it is still part of ARU. -->

The former public library on Broadway was funded by Scottish philanthropist [[Andrew Carnegie]] and opened in 1906;<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/gray_matter/8828163.When_libraries_were_given__not_taken_away/ |title=When libraries were given, not taken away |first=Christopher |last=Gray |work=The Oxford Times |date=2 February 2011 |access-date=22 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530182429/http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/gray_matter/8828163.When_libraries_were_given__not_taken_away/ |archive-date=30 May 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Carnegie was made first freeman of the city on the day of the opening ceremony.<ref>{{cite book |author=Hucklesby, John |title=People of Peterborough: Famous, infamous and interesting people from the history of Peterborough |publisher=Peterborough Museum Publications |location=Peterborough |year=2009 |pages=114–16}}</ref>