Editing Swindon (section)

==Education==
The borough of Swindon has many primary schools, 12 secondary schools, and two purpose-built sixth-form colleges. Three secondary schools also have sixth forms. There is one independent school, Maranatha Christian School at [[Sevenhampton, Wiltshire|Sevenhampton]].

===Secondary schools===
The secondary schools in the Borough of Swindon are:
*[[Abbey Park School]] (formerly Isambard School (ages 11–16))
*[[Commonweal School]] (11–18)
*[[Crowdy's Hill School]] (?–19)
*The Deanery CE Academy (11–15)
*[[The Dorcan Academy]] (11–16)
*Great Western Academy (11–18)
*[[Highworth Warneford School]] (11–16)
*The Kingfisher CE Academy (15–19)
*[[Kingsdown School]] (11–16)
*[[Lawn Manor Academy]] (11–16)
*[[Lydiard Park Academy]] (11–18)
*[[Nova Hreod Academy]] (11–16)
*[[The Ridgeway School and Sixth Form College]] (11–18)
*[[St Joseph's Catholic College]] (11–16)
*[[Swindon Academy]] (3–19 which is a post-nursery, primary and secondary school within Swindon)
*[[Uplands School (Swindon)|Uplands School]] (11–19)
*[[UTC Swindon]] (14–19)
[[Bradon Forest School]] (ages 11–18) is at Purton, near the west side of Swindon.

===Further education===
[[New College, Swindon|New College]] and [[Swindon College]] cater for the town's [[further education]] and higher education requirements, mainly for 16 to 22-year-olds. Swindon College is one of the largest FE-HE colleges in southwestern England, at a purpose-built campus in North Star, Swindon.

===Higher education===
Swindon is the UK's largest centre of population without its own university (by comparison, there are two universities in nearby [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], which is half Swindon's size). In March 2008, a proposal was made by former Swindon MP, [[Anne Snelgrove]], for a university-level institution to be established in the town within a decade, culminating in a future 'University of Swindon' (with some{{who|date=March 2021}} touting the future institution to be entitled 'The Murray John University, Swindon', after the town's most distinguished post-war civic leader).{{cn|date=May 2023}}

[[Oxford Brookes University]] has had a campus in Swindon since 1999. The campus offers degrees in Adult Nursing and Operating Department Practice ([[Operating Department Practitioners|ODP]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying-at-brookes/living/our-campuses/swindon/ |title=Swindon Campus – Oxford Brookes University |website=www.brookes.ac.uk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110234533/https://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying-at-brookes/living/our-campuses/swindon/ |archive-date=10 January 2018}}</ref> The Joel Joffe Building<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/oxford-brookes-opens-it-s-new-campus-in-swindon/ |title=Oxford Brookes opens its new campus in Swindon |date=16 August 2016 |website=Oxford Brookes University |language=en |access-date=10 January 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110114251/https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/oxford-brookes-opens-it-s-new-campus-in-swindon/ |archive-date=10 November 2017}}</ref> opened in August 2016 and was officially opened<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15069530.New_Oxford_Brookes_campus_to_officially_open_next_week/ |title=New Oxford Brookes campus to officially open next week |last=Yilmaz |first=Tanya |date=3 February 2017 |website=Swindon Advertiser |language=en |access-date=10 January 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110174634/http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15069530.New_Oxford_Brookes_campus_to_officially_open_next_week/ |archive-date=10 January 2018}}</ref> in February 2017 by [[Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe|Lord Joel Joffe]], a long-time Swindon resident and former human rights lawyer. From 1999 to 2016 the Ferndale Campus was based in north-central Swindon. The main OBU campus is about {{convert|27|mi|km|0}} northeast of Swindon. The university also sponsors [[UTC Swindon]], which opened in 2014 for students aged 14–19.

Between 2000 and 2008 the [[University of Bath]] had a campus in Walcot, east Swindon.

The [[Royal Agricultural University]] has its Cultural Heritage Institute in the former railway carriage works.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 July 2019 |title=Cultural Heritage Institute |url=https://www.rau.ac.uk/cultural-heritage-institute |access-date=1 December 2021 |website=Royal Agricultural University |language=en}}</ref>