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High Peak College was at that time based at premises in Harpur Hill, but moved to the Devonshire Dome in the centre of Buxton in 2005. [10] In August 2012, the university merged with Leek College in Leek, Staffordshire. In 2013 the university merged all of its further education education provision into Buxton & Leek College. The college ...
After Leek College was merged into the university in 2012 [6] both the 'Buxton College’ and 'Leek College’ names were dropped and replaced with the new name 'Buxton & Leek College’. Buxton College was originally named High Peak College, which was an independent FE College up until 1998, when it was dissolved as an independent entity and ...
The college's new building in about 1890. Founded in 1675, Buxton College was a boys' Public School and, from 1923, a grammar school in Buxton, Derbyshire whose site has been expanded since 1990 to be used as the fully co-educational comprehensive Buxton Community School.
Leek High School; Westwood College; Westwood First School; Leek School of Art, part of Buxton & Leek College; Leek retains the three-tier schooling system. St. Edwards Academy (previously St. Edwards Middle, then St. Edwards Junior High) has the highest student capacity of any 'middle school' in Staffordshire, at 768 students. [71]
The Universal College Application was created for use by any size or type of higher education institution. One intention of the Universal College Application is to save time and work for students by letting them submit the same application to any of the participating colleges. This is similar to the more popular Common Application, the ...
The town hosts a University of Derby campus at the site of the former Devonshire Royal Hospital, as well as the Buxton & Leek College formed by the August 2012 merger of the university with Leek College. Secondary schools include Buxton Community School, at the former College Road site of Buxton College, and St. Thomas More Catholic School. [78]
Buxton Community School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Buxton, Derbyshire, England. The school was officially opened on 19 October 1993 achieving the consolidation of four former Buxton schools on the site of the previous Buxton College. [1] The school is a specialist sports college. The headteacher is Sam Jones. [2]
Interior. The Devonshire Dome building (previously known as the Devonshire Royal Hospital) is a Grade II* listed [1] 18th-century former stable block in Buxton, Derbyshire.It was built by John Carr of York and extended by architect Robert Rippon Duke, [1] who added what was then the world's largest unsupported dome, with a diameter of 44.2 metres (145 ft).