Education
See also: List of Schools in BurnleyBurnley Grammar School was first established in St Peter's Church in 1559, with its first headmaster a former chantry priest, Gilbert Fairbank. In 1602, one of the governors, John Towneley, paid for a new schoolhouse to be built in the churchyard; the school moved again in 1876 to a new building on Bank Parade, which can still be seen today. The first technical school, in Elizabeth Street, was erected in 1892. The equivalent school for girls, Burnley Girls' High School, was established in 1909 on a site in Ormerod Road (along with the Technical School and Art School) later moving to Kiddrow Lane in the 1960s. The tripartite system of Education established by the Education Act 1944 affected Burnley in the following ways: Heasandford Technical High School for Girls and Towneley Technical High School for Boys were established (Burnley Technical High School was formed in 1956 by the merger of the two), as were Barden, Burnley Wood, Rosegrove & St. Mary's (Roman Catholic) Secondary Modern Schools.
The borough completed the move to comprehensive education in 1981,
Secondary Schools: Habergham (mixed), Ivy Bank (mixed), Gawthorpe (mixed), Towneley (mixed), Barden (boys), Walshaw (girls), St Theodores RC (boys), St Hilda's RC (Girls).
Further education: Habergham and St Theodores Sixth Forms and Burnley College (all mixed).
In 2003 a plan was devised to replace all the secondary schools and further education establishments in the town as part of the first wave of a nationwide programme funded by the Department for Education and Skills called Building Schools for the Future. Funding was secured in 2004 and in 2006 the new schools opened (in the buildings of their predecessors).
Today there are five 11–16 secondary schools:
| School | Locality | Description | Ofsted | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blessed Trinity RC Community College | Burnley | Secondary school | 134997 | website |
| Hameldon Community College | Burnley | Secondary school | 134995 | website |
| Sir John Thursby Community College | Burnley | Secondary school | 134996 | website |
| Shuttleworth College | Padiham | Secondary school | 134994 | website |
| Unity College | Burnley | Secondary school | 135003 | website |
Shuttleworth College moved into new buildings in 2008, Sir John Thursby in 2009, and Blessed Trinity, Hameldon and Unity in 2010.
Thomas Whitham Sixth Form, which forms a sixth element of the BSF programme, offers sixth form provision at its Burnley campus (opened 2008) on Barden Lane.
Burnley College is the borough's main tertiary education provider, offering vocational and professional training, adult education, and a small number of degree courses, as well as some GCSE courses and a full range of A levels. It moved to a new £80 million campus (in partnership with the University of Central Lancashire) off Princess Way in 2009. The Mohiuddin Trust charity subsequently purchased the former College site for £2m, and plan to open the Mohiuddin International Girls' College in October 2010, initially for 500 students. The Birmingham based Trust, (whose other education projects are mainly based in Pakistan) has stated that the college will offer mainstream education for women aged 16+ of both UK and foreign origin, with some boarding provision. Should the college expand to its maximum planned capacity of 1500 students it will be the largest Muslim faith school in England.
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