Editing Stoke-on-Trent (section)

==Education==

===Higher education===
[[File:Staffordshire university stoke campus frontage.jpg|thumb|Staffordshire University Stoke campus]]

There are four further and higher education institutions in the local area, the two further education colleges being [[City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College]] and [[Stoke-on-Trent College]]. Formerly of Fenton, now located in a newly built structure on Leek Road, the Sixth Form College provides [[GCE Advanced Level|A Level]] teaching for around 1,800 students. Stoke-on-Trent College is much larger and less specialised, offering apprenticeships and adult education, and has a main campus (Cauldon Campus) in Shelton, and a secondary campus in Burslem.

The city is home to [[Staffordshire University]], formerly North Staffordshire Polytechnic, with its main site in Shelton, near Stoke-on-Trent railway station. It gained its university status in 1992 as one of the [[New Universities|post-1992 universities]]. [[Keele University Medical School|Keele University School of Medicine]] uses facilities at the [[Royal Stoke University Hospital]] in [[Hartshill]]. [[Keele University]] was founded as the University College of North Staffordshire in 1949 with major involvement by Stoke-on-Trent City Council. It is located in the nearby village of [[Keele]].

===Secondary education===
{{See also|List of schools in Stoke-on-Trent}}
The city currently has 15 secondary schools: Sir Thomas Boughey Academy, [[Birches Head Academy]], [[Co-op Academy Stoke-on-Trent]], [[Discovery Academy, Stoke-on-Trent|Discovery Academy]], [[Excel Academy, Stoke-on-Trent|Excel Academy]], [[Haywood Academy]], [[Ormiston Horizon Academy]], [[Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy]], [[St Joseph's College, Stoke-on-Trent|St Joseph's College]], [[St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy]], [[Ormiston Meridian Academy]], [[St Peter's Academy]], [[St Thomas More Catholic Academy]], Stoke Studio College (with sites in Longton and Burslem), [[Thistley Hough Academy]] and [[Trentham High School]].

A major re-structure of Stoke-on-Trent's high school system was proposed in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2007/11/15/education_proposals_sot_feature.shtml |title=All change for education in Stoke-on-Trent |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=19 December 2007 |access-date=21 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208150932/http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2007/11/15/education_proposals_sot_feature.shtml |archive-date=8 February 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> As part of these plans several established secondary schools closed or merged including [[Longton High School]] (closed 2010),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moderngov.stoke.gov.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=8278 |title=Proposals for secondary school reorganisation: Longton and Sandon High Schools: Appendix 2 – Proposal to Discontinue (Close) Longton High School and Arts College |date=10 June 2008 |access-date=21 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111111222935/http://www.moderngov.stoke.gov.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=8278 |archive-date=11 November 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Mitchell High School (Stoke-on-Trent)|Mitchell High]] and Edensor High (merged to form The Discovery Academy),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/education/building-schools-for-the-future/discovery-academy.en |title=The Discovery Academy |date=October 2011 |access-date=21 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927203147/http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/education/building-schools-for-the-future/discovery-academy.en |archive-date=27 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> St Peter's CE High School and Berry Hill High (merged to form [[St Peter's Academy]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/education/building-schools-for-the-future/st-peters-academy.en |title=St Peter's Academy |date=October 2011 |access-date=21 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607025351/http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/education/building-schools-for-the-future/st-peters-academy.en |archive-date=7 June 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Potters' Holidays===
One of the legacies of the pottery industry was Stoke's version of the [[wakes week]]. Although better known in industrial Lancashire, the Stoke week is known locally as the Potters' Holidays<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pitsnpots.co.uk/2009/06/potters-holidays-the-sad-demise |title=Potters Holidays – The Sad Demise! |date=25 June 2009 |access-date=21 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722141725/http://pitsnpots.co.uk/2009/06/potters-holidays-the-sad-demise |archive-date=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> or Potters' Fortnight and occurred the last week in June, the first week in July and another week in August. This gave what appeared to be strange school holidays—with the summer term having a two-week break at the end of June, then children returning to school for three weeks before taking a five-week summer holiday. This observance has disappeared from the local schools, due to decreased emphasis on traditional industries.