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The Sheffield College is organised on a federal basis and was originally created from the merger of six colleges around the city: Sheffield City (formerly Castle), [182] Olive Grove and Eyre Street near the city centre, Hillsborough and Fir Vale, serving the north of the city and Peaks to the south. [183]
Sheffield has two further education colleges. Sheffield College is organised on a collegiate basis and was originally created from the merger of six colleges around the city, since reduced to three main centres: City in the city centre, Hillsborough in the north, and Norton in the south, each operating as semi-autonomous constituents of ...
The college is the sole provider of post-16 education in the north of Sheffield, following the abolition of traditional sixth-forms in 1988 [5] by the tertiary system. The current college was founded in 1992, following the merger of six different tertiary colleges, namely: Castle, Loxley, Norton, Parkwood, Parson Cross and Stradbroke.
This area includes a significant part of the countryside surrounding the main urban region. Roughly a third of Sheffield lies in the Peak District National Park. No other English city had parts of a national park within its boundary, [10] until the creation in March 2010 of the South Downs National Park, part of which lies within Brighton and Hove.
Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.The university is based on two sites; the City Campus is located in the city centre near Sheffield railway station, while the Collegiate Crescent Campus is about two miles away in the Broomhall Estate off Ecclesall Road in south-west Sheffield.
The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University [7] [8] or TUOS) [9] [10] is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Firth College in 1879 and Sheffield Technical School in 1884. [1]
Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) — a public university in Sheffield of Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is based at 3 campuses: 1 on Pond Street in Sheffield city centre; and 2 on Ecclesall Road in southwest Sheffield.
Sheffield Collegiate School began in 1836 in new buildings on the corner of Ecclesall Road and Collegiate Crescent (now Grade II listed and part of Sheffield Hallam University [1]). The school enjoyed academic success but lacked sound finances and was taken over by Sheffield Grammar School in 1884, to become Sheffield Royal Grammar School (SRGS ...