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SCHOOLS See also: List Of Schools In Bristol . Bristol has some of the most under-performing Schools in England , but also some of the highest performing schools in the country. Britain's first girls' Reform School was set up in 1854 by Mary Carpenter , with the financial help of the poet Lord Byron 's widow, at Bristol's Red Lodge . .]] FURTHER EDUCATION Colleges Bristol has 2 main colleges they are City Of Bristol College and Filton College . The City of Bristol College's main campus is located on St George's Road, near College Green with many smaller sites across the city; Whilst Filton College is based at Filton and the surrounding areas. HIGHER EDUCATION Bristol has 2 main universities they are University Of The West Of England (UWE) and University Of Bristol . The post-1992 UWE has around 30,000 students and 3,000 academic staff, UWE is the larger of the two universities in the city. 86% of students at UWE are from state schools. Bristol University has 15,000 students. Its particular strengths lie in Medicine, Engineering and Law. The University usually ranks in the top ten of British universities in newspaper league tables and was ranked 60th in the world in 2004, rising to 49th in the world in 2006. SCIENCE In 2005 the Chancellor Of The Exchequer recognised Bristol's ties to science and technology by naming it one of three "science cities", and promising funding for further development of science in the city, with a £300 million "Science Park" planned at Emerson's Green. As well as research at the two universities and Southmead Hospital , science education is important in the city, with At-Bristol , Bristol Zoo and Bristol Festival Of Nature being prominent educational organisations. The city has a history of scientific achievement, including for crucial contributions to Quantum Mechanics in 1933, and Cecil Frank Powell , for a photographic method of studying nuclear processes and associated discoveries in 1950. The city was birth place of Colin Pillinger , planetary scientist behind the Beagle 2 Mars lander project, and is home to Adam Hart-Davis , presenter of various science related television programmes, and the psychologists Susan Blackmore , Richard Gregory , and Derren Brown . |
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