Editing Sheffield (section)

==Education==
{{Main|Education in Sheffield}}

Within the city of Sheffield there are two universities, 141 primary schools and 28 secondary schools.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/education/our-schools/find-a-school/schools-list |title=Schools List |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718235712/http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/education/our-schools/find-a-school/schools-list |archive-date=18 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Museums===
[[File:Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield UK.jpg|thumb|[[Kelham Island Museum]] (left). The museum is home to The [[Bessemer converter|Bessemer Converter]], the most important technique for making [[steel]] from the 1850s to the 1950s.]]

Sheffield's museums are managed by two distinct organisations. [[Museums Sheffield]] manages the [[Weston Park Museum]] (a Grade II* listed Building), [[Millennium Galleries]] and [[Graves Art Gallery]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Museums |url=http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007153402/http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/ |archive-date=7 October 2013 |access-date=13 October 2013 |publisher=Museums Sheffield}}</ref> These museums constitute the oldest extant museums in the city, with Graves Art Gallery and Weston Park Museum being gifted to the city by industrialist philanthropists in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Millennium Galleries, being established in the early 2000s, is one of the newest museums and constitutes part of the Heart of the City development, connecting directly to the Winter Garden and Millennium Square. All three museums host a broad range of exhibits which reflect Sheffield's history and numerous other themes, including exhibitions on loan from other major galleries and museums.

[[Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust]] manages the museums dedicated to Sheffield's industrial heritage of which there are three.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust |url=http://www.simt.co.uk/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110821200732/http://www.simt.co.uk/ |archive-date=21 August 2011 |access-date=24 August 2011 |publisher=Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust}}</ref> [[Kelham Island Museum]] (located just to the North of the city centre) is located on the site of a 19th-century iron foundry and showcases the city's history of steel manufacturing and includes a range of important historical artifacts, including a preserved [[Bessemer converter|Bessemer Converter]] (which won an Engineering Heritage Award in 2004 from the [[Institution of Mechanical Engineers]]), munitions and mechanical components from WW2 aircraft (Including a crankshaft from a [[Spitfire]] which, during the early stages of the war, could only be produced in Sheffield) and a fully functional 12,000 horsepower steam engine dating to the 19th century.<ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=http://www.simt.co.uk/kelham-island-museum/about |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716120240/http://www.simt.co.uk/kelham-island-museum/about |archive-date=16 July 2011 |access-date=24 August 2011 |publisher=Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust}}</ref> The museum is an Anchor Point for the ERIH, [[European Route of Industrial Heritage|The European Route of Industrial Heritage]]. [[Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet]] (in the south of the city) is a Grade I listed building and a [[Scheduled Ancient Monument]].<ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=http://www.simt.co.uk/abbeydale-industrial-hamlet/about |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716120259/http://www.simt.co.uk/abbeydale-industrial-hamlet/about |archive-date=16 July 2011 |access-date=24 August 2011 |publisher=Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust}}</ref> [[Shepherd Wheel]] (in the south-East of the city) is a former water-powered grinding [[workshop]], Grade II listed and a [[Scheduled Ancient Monument]].<ref>{{cite web |title=What to see |url=http://www.simt.co.uk/shepherd-wheel-workshop/what-to-see |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928010147/http://www.simt.co.uk/shepherd-wheel-workshop/what-to-see |archive-date=28 September 2011 |access-date=24 August 2011 |publisher=Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust}}</ref> Also there are [[Sheffield Archives]].

In August 2022 the Yorkshire Natural History Museum opened on Holme Lane in Sheffield. Many of the exhibits come from the collection of James Hogg and feature a collection of Jurassic marine life, such as [[Ammonoidea|ammonites]], [[Belemnitida|belemnites]], [[Plesiosaurus|plesiosaurs]] and [[ichthyosaur]]s, many of which were collected from the Lias of the Yorkshire Coast. The museum has Europe's first publicly accessible fossil preparation and conservation laboratory with ultrasonic preparation facilities, an acid preparation laboratory, 3D scanning, CT scanning and 3D printing.<ref>{{cite news |date=13 August 2022 |title=Sheffield: New natural history museum opens in city |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-62520254 |url-status=live |access-date=13 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813111420/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-62520254 |archive-date=13 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=13 August 2022 |title=Brand new Natural History Museum opening in Sheffield – The Geological Curators' Group |url=https://www.geocurator.org/news/574-brand-new-natural-history-museum-opening-in-sheffield |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824052948/https://www.geocurator.org/news/574-brand-new-natural-history-museum-opening-in-sheffield |archive-date=24 August 2022 |access-date=13 August 2022 |website=geocurator.org}}</ref> On the opening day palaeontologist Dean Lomax exmined one of the fossils on display and declared it to be the oldest example of a vertebrate embryo found in Britain and the oldest complete ichthyosaur embryo ever found in Britain.<ref>{{cite web |last=Brown |first=Mark |date=15 August 2022 |title='The whole embryo was there': expert makes rare find on Sheffield museum opening day |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/15/expert-makes-rare-find-sheffield-museum-opening-day-yorkshire-natural-history-museum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815145011/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/15/expert-makes-rare-find-sheffield-museum-opening-day-yorkshire-natural-history-museum |archive-date=15 August 2022 |access-date=16 August 2022 |website=The Guardian}}</ref>

There are also a number of independent museums in the city including the [[National Videogame Museum (United Kingdom)|National Videogame Museum]] and the [[National Emergency Services Museum]], as well as the University of Sheffield's [[Turner Museum of Glass]].

===Universities, colleges and UTCs===
[[File:Sheffield Uni.jpg|thumb|alt=Red brick university building|[[Firth Court]], the administrative and ceremonial centre of the University of Sheffield]]

The city's universities are [[the University of Sheffield]] and Sheffield Hallam University. The two combined bring about 60,000&nbsp;students to the city every year.<ref name="HESA citation">{{HESA citation}}</ref> The University of Sheffield is the city's oldest university. It was established in 1897 as University College Sheffield and gained university status in 1905. Its history traces back to Sheffield Medical School found in 1828, Firth College in 1879 and Sheffield Technical School in 1884. The university is one of the original [[red brick universities]] and is a member of the [[Russell Group]].
[[File:Sheffield City Centre and station.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|Sheffield Hallam University city campus seen from South Street Park]]
[[Sheffield Hallam University]] (SHU) is a university on two sites in Sheffield. City Campus is located in the city centre, close to Sheffield railway station, and [[Collegiate Crescent]] Campus is about {{cvt|2|mi}} away, adjacent to [[Ecclesall Road]] in south-west Sheffield. Sheffield Hallam University's history goes back to 1843 with the establishment of the Sheffield School of Design. During the 1960s several independent colleges (including the School of Design) joined to become Sheffield Polytechnic (Sheffield City Polytechnic from 1976) and was finally renamed Sheffield Hallam University in 1992.
[[File:Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park.jpg|thumb|[[UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park]] (left) and Sheffield Hallam University (right)]]
Sheffield has three main [[further education]] providers: [[The Sheffield College]], [[Longley Park Sixth Form]] and [[Chapeltown Academy]]. [[The Sheffield College]] is organised on a federal basis and was originally created from the merger of six colleges around the city: Sheffield City (formerly Castle),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/index.cfm?parentid=e69ba9a6-2eff-427f-af5a-2af03712076a |title=Castle College Milestone |date=11 December 2008 |publisher=The Sheffield College |access-date=21 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221093442/http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/index.cfm?parentid=e69ba9a6-2eff-427f-af5a-2af03712076a |archive-date=21 December 2008}}</ref> Olive Grove and Eyre Street near the city centre, Hillsborough and Fir Vale, serving the north of the city and Peaks to the south.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sheffield College – Campuses |url=http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/campuses |publisher=The Sheffield College |access-date=9 September 2020 |archive-date=26 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826033231/http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/campuses |url-status=live }}</ref>

Launched by the [[Coalition Government 2010-2015|coalition government]] in 2010, the [[University Technical College]] program was designed to foster greater interest in [[STEM]] subjects amongst students aged 14 to 18. Sheffield currently hosts two UTCs, [[UTC Sheffield City Centre]] and [[UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park]]. All UTCs, including those in Sheffield, are sponsored by the Baker Dearing Educational Trust,<ref name="bakertrust">{{cite web |url=http://www.utcolleges.org/media/15074/a5_flyer.pdf |title=University Technical Colleges |access-date=4 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130610031435/http://www.utcolleges.org/media/15074/a5_flyer.pdf |archive-date=10 June 2013}}</ref> established by [[Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking|Lord Baker]]. The two UTCs in Sheffield are also sponsored and supported by Sheffield Hallam University. Whilst the UTCs are equivalent to regular secondary schools and sixth forms, their governance structure and curriculum are different, owing to their status as free schools and focusing on STEM, as opposed to a broader curriculum.

===Secondary, primary and nursery===
{{See also|List of schools in Sheffield}}

There are 137&nbsp;primary schools, 26&nbsp;secondary schools—of which 10 have [[sixth form]]s: ([[High Storrs School (Sheffield)|High Storrs]], [[King Ecgbert School|King Ecgberts]], [[King Edward VII School (Sheffield)|King Edward VII]], [[Silverdale School (Sheffield)|Silverdale]], [[Meadowhead School|Meadowhead]], [[Tapton School|Tapton]], [[Notre Dame School (Sheffield)|Notre Dame Catholic High]] and [[All Saints Catholic High School, Sheffield|All Saints Catholic High]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/education/our-schools/school-information#typesofschools |title=School Information |date=7 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724021142/http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/education/our-schools/school-information#typesofschools |archive-date=24 July 2009 |publisher=Sheffield City Council}}</ref>)—and a sixth-form college, [[Longley Park Sixth Form]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/education/our-schools/school-information |title=Types and numbers of schools in Sheffield |publisher=Sheffield City Council |access-date=21 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609170545/http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/education/our-schools/school-information |archive-date=9 June 2009}}</ref> The city's five independent private schools include [[Birkdale School]] and the [[Sheffield High School (South Yorkshire)|Sheffield High School]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.isc.co.uk/isc_YorkshireAreaSouth_Sheffield.htm |title=Independent Private Schools in Sheffield |work=Independent Schools Council (ISC) website |publisher=Independent Schools Council |access-date=22 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616091505/http://www.isc.co.uk/isc_YorkshireAreaSouth_Sheffield.htm |archive-date=16 June 2009}}</ref> There are also 12 special schools and a number of Integrated Resource Units in mainstream schools which are, along with all other schools, managed by Sheffield City Council.<ref name="sheffield2010">{{cite web|url=http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/education/our-schools/school-information#typesofschools|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724021142/http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/education/our-schools/school-information#typesofschools|url-status=dead|title=School Information|first=Sue|last=Nelson|date=7 July 2009|archivedate=24 July 2009|website=www.sheffield.gov.uk|accessdate=25 February 2025}}</ref> All schools are non-selective, mixed sex schools (apart from [[Sheffield High School, South Yorkshire|Sheffield High School]] and Al-Mahad Al-Islami, both all-girls schools).<ref name="sheffield2010"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Al-Mahad Al-Islami – GOV.UK |url=https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/131122 |access-date=4 November 2023 |website=get-information-schools.service.gov.uk }}</ref> The Early Years Education and Childcare Service of Sheffield City Council manages 32 nurseries and children's centres in the city.<ref name="sheffield2010"/>