Editing South Gloucestershire (section)

==Education==
{{See also|List of schools in South Gloucestershire}}
South Gloucestershire is home to 99 primary schools, 16 secondary schools, and post-16 colleges and centres.<ref>
{{cite news |title=UK Schools & Colleges Database |publisher=Schools Web Directory | date=20 April 2009}}</ref> There is one university, the [[University of the West of England]], which was a former polytechnic. In 2008, DCSF figures revealed that there was a 6.6% overall absence in the district's secondary schools, whilst 7.4% is the national average.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/group_08.pl?Mode=Z&Type=LA&Begin=&No=803&Base=d&Phase=1&F=1&L=50&Year=08 |title=Local Authority : South Gloucestershire |access-date=14 March 2009 |publisher=DCSF}}</ref>

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!width=120|Key Stage 4 results (2008)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/group_08.pl?Mode=Z&Type=LA&Begin=&No=803&Base=g&Phase=1&F=1&L=50&Year=08 |title=Local Authority: South Gloucestershire |access-date=14 March 2009 |publisher=DCSF}}</ref>
!width=120 align=right|5 or more grades A*-C including English and maths GCSEs %
!width=120 align=right|Level 2 in functional English and maths
!width=120 align=right|Level 1 in functional English and maths
!width=120 align=right|Level 2 (5 or more grades A*-C)
!width=120 align=right|Level 1 (5 or more grades A*-G)
!width=120 align=right|2 grades A*-C which cover the Key Stage 4 science programme of study
!width=120 align=right|A*C in a modern foreign language
!width=120 align=right|A*G in a modern foreign language
!width=120 align=right|At least one qualification
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||Local Authority average
|align=right|48.1%
|align=right|56.9%
|align=right|92.8%
|align=right|63.6%
|align=right|93.0%
|align=right|50.3%
|align=right|30.6%
|align=right|49.7%
|align=right|98.0%
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||England average
|align=right|48.1%
|align=right|52.0%
|align=right|90.2%
|align=right|65.3%
|align=right|91.6%
|align=right|50.3%
|align=right|30.7%
|align=right|44.8%
|align=right|98.6%
|-
|}

In 2005, the then [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] recognised the City of Bristol's ties to science and technology by naming it one of six "science cities", and promising funding for further development of science in the city,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bris.ac.uk/university/vc/science-city.html |title=Vice-Chancellor's speeches and articles |access-date=6 May 2007 |publisher=[[University of Bristol]] |date=11 November 2005 |archive-date=20 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070120011854/http://www.bris.ac.uk/university/vc/science-city.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> with a £300 million science park planned at [[Emersons Green]], in South Gloucestershire.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4925556.stm |title=City science park partner named |access-date=6 May 2007 |publisher=[[BBC News]] | date=20 April 2006}}</ref>