Editing East Midlands (section)

===Secondary education===
Most secondary schools in the East Midlands are [[comprehensive school|comprehensives]], although Lincolnshire retains fifteen state [[grammar school]]s.

There are around 180,000 students in the region's secondary schools; this is the second lowest number of students in a region in England, after the [[North East England|North East]], and more than 100,000 lower than the figure for the [[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]]. Some of the East Midlands' urban secondary schools hold [[truancy]] rates above that of the national average, whereas truancy rates in the region's rural secondary schools tend to be lower than the national average.

Nottingham City schools tend to perform less well in terms of [[General Certificate of Secondary Education|GCSE]] standards, with some Leicester schools suffering a similar problem. Rutland (amongst the highest-performing areas in the region where GCSE standards are concerned) has one of the highest percentages of pupils reaching the threshold of five grade A–C GCSEs (including Maths and English) in England. On a District Council level, [[Rushcliffe]] in Nottinghamshire tends to attain some of the region's best GCSE results. Leicestershire and Derbyshire also regularly tend to produce GCSE results at a standard greater than the national average.

At [[GCE Advanced Level|A-level]], Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire regularly generate results greater than the national average. Nottingham tends to produce better results at A-level than it does at GCSE.

There are eighteen [[further education]] colleges in the region, including: [[New College Nottingham]], [[Central College Nottingham]], [[Leicester College]], and [[Lincoln College, Lincolnshire|Lincoln College]].

The regional [[Learning and Skills Council]] was headquartered at the Meridian Business Park in [[Braunstone Town]], southwest of Leicester. The LSC has been replaced by the [[Young People's Learning Agency]],<ref>[http://www.ypla.gov.uk/regions/em/ YPLA East Midlands] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111215122456/http://www.ypla.gov.uk/regions/em/ |date=15 December 2011 }}</ref> and the [[Skills Funding Agency]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.emgate.org.uk/ |title=East Midlands Gifted and Talented Partnership |access-date=6 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304115145/http://www.emgate.org.uk/ |archive-date=4 March 2011 |url-status=usurped }}</ref>