Editing Reading, Berkshire (section)

===Education===
{{See also|List of schools in Reading}}
[[File:The University of Reading.jpg|thumb|right|Part of the [[University of Reading]]'s main [[Whiteknights Park|Whiteknights Campus]]]]
[[File:Museum of English Rural Life 2.jpg|thumb|right|The Museum of English Rural Life's rear garden, with the original East Thorpe House in the centre]]
[[Reading School]] (a [[state school|state]] [[grammar school]]), founded in 1125,<ref name="old-redingensians" /> is the 16th oldest school in England.<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.readingschool.reading.sch.uk/page.asp?sec=School_History|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722123930/http://www.readingschool.reading.sch.uk/page.asp?sec=School_History|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 July 2011|publisher=Reading School|access-date=12 June 2011}}</ref> There are six other [[state school|state]] [[secondary schools]] and 38 state [[primary schools]] within the borough, together with a number of [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private schools]] and nurseries.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Schools|url=http://www.reading.gov.uk/residents/children-and-families/EducationandLearning/Schools/ListofSchools/|publisher=Reading Borough Council|access-date=5 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411050650/http://www.reading.gov.uk/residents/children-and-families/EducationandLearning/Schools/ListofSchools|archive-date=11 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Alfred Sutton Boys' School closed in the mid-1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ww2.berkshirenclosure.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=SCH38|title=Records of Alfred Sutton Secondary Boys' School, Reading|last=Record Office|first=Berkshire|access-date=24 February 2019|archive-date=25 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225161854/http://ww2.berkshirenclosure.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=SCH38|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Reading College]] has provided [[further education]] in Reading since 1955, with over 8,500 local learners on over 900 courses.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading-college.ac.uk/about-us/ | title = About Reading College | publisher=Reading College | access-date =23 August 2010 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100817172041/http://www.reading-college.ac.uk/about-us/ <!--Added by H3llBot--> | archive-date =17 August 2010}}</ref> English language schools in Reading include Gateway Languages, the English Language Centre, ELC London Street and [[Eurospeak Language School]].

The [[University of Reading]] was established in 1892 as an affiliate of [[Oxford University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The University of Reading is 85 years old|url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/staffportal/news/articles/spsn-357935.aspx|publisher=[[University of Reading]]|access-date=12 June 2011|date=16 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125180507/http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/staffportal/news/articles/spsn-357935.aspx|archive-date=25 November 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> It moved to its [[London Road Campus]] in 1904 and to its new [[Whiteknights Park|Whiteknights Campus]] in 1947. It took over the Bulmershe College of [[Higher Education]], a [[teacher training college]], in 1989, becoming [[Bulmershe Court|Bulmershe Court Campus]]. The [[Henley Business School|Henley Management College]], situated in [[Buckinghamshire]] and about {{convert|10|mi}} from Reading, was taken over in 2008, becoming [[Greenlands Campus]].<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the University's Estates|url=http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/about-estates.aspx|publisher=[[University of Reading]]|access-date=12 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521170141/http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/about-estates.aspx|archive-date=21 May 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[University of West London]] maintains a presence in the town for its higher education students, principally in [[nursing]], but has now divested itself of its previous ownership of [[Reading College]] and its [[further education]] students.<ref>{{cite web | title = Thames Valley University to become the 'University of West London' | publisher = Thames Valley University | url = http://www.uwl.ac.uk/the_university/tvu_to_become_uwl.jsp?ID=3644&Main_title=Thames%20Valley%20University%20to%20become%20'The%20University%20of%20West%20London' | date = 3 August 2010 | access-date = 23 August 2010 | archive-date = 25 November 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111125172442/http://www.uwl.ac.uk/the_university/tvu_to_become_uwl.jsp?ID=3644&Main_title=Thames%20Valley%20University%20to%20become%20%27The%20University%20of%20West%20London%27 | url-status = dead }}</ref>