Editing Liverpool (section)

==Education==
{{See also|List of schools in Liverpool}}
[[File:Victoria Building, University of Liverpool 2019.jpg|thumb|right|[[University of Liverpool]]'s [[Victoria Building, University of Liverpool|Victoria Building]]]]
In Liverpool primary and secondary education is available in various forms supported by the state including secular, [[Church of England]], Jewish, and Roman Catholic. [[Islam]]ic education is available at primary level, but there is no secondary provision.
One of Liverpool's important early schools was [[Liverpool Blue Coat School|The Liverpool Blue Coat School]]; founded in 1708 as a charitable school. It is now a [[state school|state]] [[grammar school]].

The Liverpool Blue Coat School is the top-performing school in the city with 100% 5 or more A*-C grades at GCSE resulting in the 30th best GCSE results in the country and an average point score per student of 1087.4 in A/AS levels.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/07/school_tables/secondary_schools/html/341_gcse_lea.stm|title=Secondary schools in Liverpool|access-date=10 January 2008|publisher=BBC News|archive-date=24 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324094748/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/07/school_tables/secondary_schools/html/341_gcse_lea.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> Other notable schools include [[Liverpool College]] founded in 1840 [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood|Merchant Taylors' School]] founded in 1620.<ref name=liverpoolcollege>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolcollege.org.uk/|title=Liverpool College|access-date=23 April 2007|archive-date=5 February 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050205231127/http://www.liverpoolcollege.org.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref> Another of Liverpool's notable senior schools is [[St Edward's College|St. Edward's College]] situated in the West Derby area of the city. Historic grammar schools, such as the [[Liverpool Institute High School for Boys|Liverpool Institute High School]] and [[Liverpool Collegiate School]]—both closed in the 1980s—are still remembered as centres of academic excellence. Bellerive Catholic College is the city's top-performing non-selective school, based upon GCSE results in 2007.
[[File:LJMU Byrom Street.jpg|thumb|left|[[Liverpool John Moores University]]'s [[James Parsons Building]]]]

Liverpool has three universities: the [[University of Liverpool]], [[Liverpool John Moores University]] and [[Liverpool Hope University]]. [[Edge Hill University]], founded as a [[Normal school|teacher-training college]] in the [[Edge Hill, Liverpool|Edge Hill]] district of Liverpool, is now located in [[Ormskirk]] in South-West Lancashire. Liverpool is also home to the [[Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts]] (LIPA).

The [[University of Liverpool]] was established in 1881 as University College Liverpool. In 1884, it became part of the federal [[Victoria University (United Kingdom)|Victoria University]]. Following a Royal Charter and Act of Parliament in 1903, it became an independent university, the University of Liverpool, with the right to confer its own degrees. It was the first university to offer degrees in biochemistry, architecture, civic design, veterinary science, oceanography and social science.

[[File:Liverpool Community College Arts Centre - geograph.org.uk - 640908.jpg|thumb|[[City of Liverpool College]]'s Arts Centre]] [[Liverpool Hope University]], which was formed through the merger of three colleges, the earliest of which was founded in 1844, gained university status in 2005. It is the only ecumenical university in Europe.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/liverpool-hope--europes-only-ecumenical-university--is-resisting-the-urge-to-expand-454872.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611040923/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/liverpool-hope--europes-only-ecumenical-university--is-resisting-the-urge-to-expand-454872.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 June 2009|title=Liverpool Hope – Europe's only ecumenical university – is resisting the urge to expand|work=The Independent|first=Lucy|last=Hodges|date=28 June 2007|access-date=8 February 2011|location=London}}</ref> It is situated on both sides of Taggart Avenue in Childwall and has a second campus in the city centre (the Cornerstone).

The [[Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine]], founded to address some of the problems created by trade, continues today as a post-graduate school affiliated with the University of Liverpool and houses an anti-venom repository.

[[Liverpool John Moores University]] was previously a [[Institute of technology|polytechnic]], and gained status in 1992. It is named in honour of [[John Moores (British businessman)|Sir John Moores]], one of the founders of the [[The Very Group|Littlewoods]] football pools and retail group, who was a major benefactor. The institution was previously owned and run by Liverpool City Council. It traces it lineage to the Liverpool [[Mechanics' institute]], opened in 1823, making it by this measure England's third-oldest university.

The city has one [[further education]] college, [[City of Liverpool College]] in the city centre. Liverpool City Council operates [[Burton Manor]], a residential [[adult education]] college in nearby [[Burton (near Neston)|Burton]], on the [[Wirral Peninsula]].

There are two Jewish schools in Liverpool, both belonging to the King David Foundation. [[King David High School, Liverpool|King David School, Liverpool]], is the High School and the King David Primary School. There is also a King David Kindergarten, featured in the community centre of Harold House. These schools are all run by the King David Foundation located in Harold House in Childwall; conveniently next door to the [[Childwall]] Synagogue.