Editing Bristol (section)

== Education ==
{{Main|Education in Bristol}}
[[File:Victoria Rooms (750px).jpg|thumb|alt= A Palladian style nineteenth century stone building with a large colonnaded porch. In front a large metal statue on a pedestal and fountains with decorations.|The Victoria Rooms, owned by the University of Bristol]]
Bristol has two major institutions of higher education: the [[University of Bristol]], a [[redbrick]] chartered in 1909;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |year=2011 |title=How the University is run |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/university/governance/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706102039/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/university/governance/ |archive-date=6 July 2011 |access-date=20 June 2011 |publisher=Bristol University}}</ref> and the [[University of the West of England]], opened as Bristol [[Institute of technology|Polytechnic]] in 1969, which became a university in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |year=2011 |title=UWE history timeline |url=http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/aboutus/history/uwehistorytimeline.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717095746/http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/aboutus/history/uwehistorytimeline.aspx |archive-date=17 July 2011 |access-date=20 June 2011 |publisher=UWE Bristol}}</ref> [[The University of Law]] also has a campus in the city. Bristol has two [[further education]] institutions ([[City of Bristol College]] and [[South Gloucestershire and Stroud College]]) and two [[theological]] colleges: [[Trinity College, Bristol|Trinity College]], and [[Bristol Baptist College]]. The city has 129 [[Infant school|infant]], [[Junior school|junior]] and primary schools,<ref>{{Cite web |title=List of primary schools in Bristol |url=http://www.bristol.gov.uk/schoolfinder?Task=type&SchoolType=Primary&SchoolType=None |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203003349/http://www.bristol.gov.uk/schoolfinder?Task=type&SchoolType=Primary&SchoolType=None |archive-date=3 December 2013 |access-date=27 January 2013 |publisher=Bristol City Council}}</ref>
[[List of schools in Bristol|17 secondary schools]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=List of secondary schools in Bristol |url=http://www.bristol.gov.uk/schoolfinder?Task=type&SchoolType=Secondary&SchoolType=None |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403103832/http://www.bristol.gov.uk/schoolfinder?Task=type&SchoolType=Secondary&SchoolType=None |archive-date=3 April 2015 |access-date=27 January 2013 |publisher=Bristol City Council}}</ref> and three learning centres. After a section of north London, Bristol has England's second-highest number of [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private school]] places.<ref name="curtis">{{Cite news |last=Polly |first=Curtis |date=29 January 2008 |title=To have and have not |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/jan/29/publicschools.schools |url-status=live |access-date=29 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204205114/http://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/jan/29/publicschools.schools |archive-date=4 December 2013}}</ref> Independent schools in the city include [[Clifton College]], [[Clifton High School, Bristol|Clifton High School]], [[Badminton School]], [[Bristol Grammar School]], [[Queen Elizabeth's Hospital]] (the only all-boys school) and the [[Redmaids' School]] (founded in 1634 by John Whitson, which claims to be England's oldest girls' school).<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Brief History |url=https://www.redmaidshigh.co.uk/about-us-a-brief-history.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928141523/http://www.redmaids.co.uk/about-us-a-brief-history.aspx |archive-date=28 September 2015 |access-date=27 September 2015 |publisher=Redmaids' High School}}</ref>
[[File:University of bristol tower after cleaning arp.jpg|thumb|right|upright|alt=A tall stone nineteenth century with shields on the visible sides and a pepperpot upper storey. In front, traffic and pedestrians on a busy street. |The [[Wills Memorial Building]] on [[Park Street, Bristol|Park Street]], part of the university]]

In 2005, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] Gordon Brown named Bristol one of six English 'science cities',<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=20 September 2005 |title=UK designates six 'Science Cities' to spearhead economic growth |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/198532.article |magazine=Times Higher Education |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418233333/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/198532.article |archive-date=18 April 2015 |access-date=18 April 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>
and a £300{{nbsp}}million science park was planned at [[Emersons Green]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 April 2006 |title=City science park partner named |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/4925556.stm |url-status=live |access-date=6 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111151003/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/4925556.stm |archive-date=11 January 2009}}</ref> Research is conducted at the two universities, the [[Bristol Royal Infirmary]] and [[Southmead Hospital]], and science outreach is practised at [[We The Curious]], the Bristol Zoo, the [[Bristol Festival of Nature]] and the CREATE Centre.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Create Centre |url=http://www.bristol.gov.uk/node/899 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107143653/http://bristol.gov.uk/node/899 |archive-date=7 January 2012 |access-date=27 January 2013 |publisher=Bristol City Council}}</ref>

The city has produced a number of scientists, including 19th-century chemist [[Humphry Davy]]<ref>{{Cite news |title=Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/davy_humphrey.shtml |url-status=live |access-date=7 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204211346/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/davy_humphrey.shtml |archive-date=4 February 2009}}</ref> (who worked in [[Hotwells]]). Physicist [[Paul Dirac]] (from [[Bishopston, Bristol|Bishopston]]) received the 1933 Nobel Prize for his contributions to [[quantum mechanics]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dirac biography |url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Dirac.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090314093417/http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Dirac.html |archive-date=14 March 2009 |access-date=7 March 2009 |publisher=www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk}}</ref> [[Cecil Frank Powell]] was the Melvill Wills Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol when he received the 1950 Nobel Prize for, among other discoveries, his photographic method of studying nuclear processes. [[Colin Pillinger]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=barnstormpr&nbsp;– The website of Professor Colin Pillinger, CBE FRS |url=http://colinpillinger.com/barnstormpr.co.uk/biography.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218205618/http://colinpillinger.com/barnstormpr.co.uk/biography.htm |archive-date=18 February 2012 |access-date=27 January 2013 |publisher=colinpillinger.com}}</ref> was the planetary scientist behind the [[Beagle 2]] project, and neuropsychologist [[Richard Gregory]] founded the Exploratory (a hands-on science centre which was the predecessor of At-Bristol/We The Curious).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Richard Gregory on-line |url=http://www.richardgregory.org/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305024554/http://richardgregory.org/ |archive-date=5 March 2009 |access-date=7 March 2009 |publisher=www.richardgregory.org}}</ref>

Initiatives such as the [[Flying Start Challenge]] encourage an interest in science and engineering in Bristol secondary-school pupils; links with aerospace companies impart technical information and advance student understanding of design.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Flying Start Challenge |url=http://www.flyingstartchallenge.co.uk/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205010234/http://www.flyingstartchallenge.co.uk/ |archive-date=5 February 2009 |access-date=16 March 2009 |publisher=www.flyingstartchallenge.co.uk}}</ref>
The [[Bloodhound SSC]] project to break the [[land speed record]] is based at the Bloodhound Technology Centre on the city's harbourside.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 March 2012 |title=Bloodhound Diary |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17429108 |url-status=live |access-date=30 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322012139/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17429108 |archive-date=22 March 2012}}</ref>