Editing Coventry (section)

==Education==
{{See also|List of schools in Coventry}}

===Universities and further education colleges===
[[File:Coventry university 26l07.JPG|thumb|The Alan Berry building, Coventry University.]]

Coventry has two universities; [[Coventry University]] is situated on a modern city centre campus while the [[University of Warwick]] lies {{convert|3.5|mi|km|abbr=off}} to the south of the city centre. The [[University of Warwick]] is one of only five universities never to have been rated outside the top ten in terms of teaching excellence and research and is a member of the prestigious [[Russell Group]]. The university won the BBC TV ''[[University Challenge]]'' trophy in April 2007 and April 2021. [[Coventry University]] is one of only a handful of universities to run a degree course in [[automotive design]], which is in its [[Coventry School of Art and Design]].

Coventry also has two further education colleges within city boundaries, [[Coventry College]] and [[Hereward College]].

===Schools===
Many of the secondary schools in and around Coventry are specialist colleges, such as [[Finham Park School]], which is a mathematics and IT college, a teacher training school and the only school in Coventry to offer studying the International Baccalaureate, and [[Coventry Blue Coat Church of England School]] which has recently become a specialist college of music, one of only a few in the country. [[Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, Coventry|Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School]] specialises in languages. [[Bishop Ullathorne RC School]] became a specialist college in humanities in 2006. [[Ernesford Grange Community Academy]], in the south east, is a specialist science college. [[Coundon Court|Coundon Court School]] is a [[Technology College]]. [[Pattison College]], a private school opened in 1949, specialises in the performing arts. [[Caludon Castle School]] is a business and enterprise school, which was rebuilt over 2005–07. [[Exhall Grange School|Exhall Grange School and Science College]] is in the north of the city, although, its catchment area is north Warwickshire. There is also [[Cardinal Newman Catholic School and Community College]] and [[Whitley Academy]] in the city.

Coventry has a variety of schools: Two of the oldest secondary schools being [[President Kennedy School]] founded in 1966 and located in the north-west of Coventry (currently undergoing rebuilding work) and [[Sidney Stringer Academy]] which is located in the centre of the city. It is a co-educational school and has moved into a larger building costing £28 million.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sidney Stringer Academy – Tes Jobs|url=https://www.tes.com/jobs/employer/sidney-stringer-academy-1000428|access-date=16 January 2022|website=www.tes.com}}</ref>

The Coventry School Foundation comprises the independent schools [[King Henry VIII School, Coventry|King Henry VIII School]] and [[Bablake School]] together with [[King Henry VIII Preparatory School]].

The [[Woodlands Academy, Coventry|Woodlands Academy]] and Tile Hill Wood School were the last remaining single sex schools in the city, serving boys and girls respectively. These schools merged onto the Tile Hill Wood site in 2016 before officially being rebranded as [[West Coventry Academy]] in 2017. Both Woodlands and Tile Hill shared a joint sixth form along with The Westwood Academy called West Coventry Sixth Form, but in 2018 Westwood left the sixth form and it now operates under the name West Coventry Academy Sixth Form.

The Westwood Academy, which is a Technology College, is close to the [[University of Warwick]]. It is the only school in Coventry that is a [[Cisco Networking Academy|CISCO Academy]] and has links with other educational establishments, industry and the local community.

Sherbourne Fields School is a school for young people with disabilities and is located in the Coundon area.<ref>{{cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.sherbournefields.co.uk/ |access-date=5 September 2024 |website=Sherbourne Fields Special School }}</ref> It opened in the 1960s.