Editing Wiltshire (section)

==Education==
{{See also|List of schools in Wiltshire}}
[[File:Chapel and North Block.JPG|thumb|Marlborough College: court and chapel]]
Wiltshire has 30 county secondary schools, publicly funded, of which the largest is [[Warminster Kingdown]], and eleven [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private]] secondaries, including [[Marlborough College]], [[St Mary's School, Calne|St Mary's Calne]], [[Dauntsey's School|Dauntsey's]] near [[Devizes]], and [[Warminster School]]. The county schools are nearly all [[comprehensive school|comprehensives]], with the older pattern of education surviving only in [[Salisbury]], which has two [[Grammar schools in the United Kingdom|grammar schools]] ([[South Wilts Grammar School]] and [[Bishop Wordsworth's School]]) and three non-selective schools.

There are four [[further education]] colleges, which also provide some higher education: [[New College, Swindon|New College]] (Swindon); [[Wiltshire College]] (Chippenham, Trowbridge and Salisbury); [[Salisbury Sixth Form College]]; and [[Swindon College]]. Wiltshire is also home to a [[University technical college|University Technical College]], [[UTC Swindon]], specialising in engineering. A second UTC, [[South Wiltshire UTC]], was based in Salisbury but closed in August 2020.

Wiltshire is one of the few remaining English counties without a university or university college; the closest university to the county town of Trowbridge is the [[University of Bath]]. However, [[Bath Spa University]] has a centre at [[Corsham Court]] in [[Corsham]], and [[Oxford Brookes University]] maintains a minor campus in [[Swindon]] (almost 50&nbsp;km from Oxford). Swindon is the UK's second largest centre of population (after [[Milton Keynes]]) without its own university.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}}

[[Service Children's Education]] has its headquarters in [[Trenchard Lines]] in [[Upavon]], Wiltshire.<ref>"[https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/277236/0961.pdf Service Children's Education Annual Report and Accounts 2012–2013]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132907/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/277236/0961.pdf Archive]). [[Service Children's Education]]. PDF p. 3/62. Retrieved on 28 February 2015. "Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at Headquarters Service Children's Education, Trenchard Lines, Upavon, Wiltshire"</ref>