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Quality of Life - Education

Many schools - results higher than UK average

young boy drawingDerby and Derbyshire have an excellent choice of local authority and private schools, which receive significant investment in staff and facilities to provide the highest quality education.

Derby's commitment starts at pre-school and nursery where it is one of the leading UK authorities in innovative programmes for this age group. There is nursery provision available for all three and four year-olds, across a range of local authority, private and voluntary provision.

Schools for all ages across the county and the city continue to deliver the most dramatic and sustainable improvements in pupil performance and attainment in the UK and in particular, out-performing the national average at Key Stage 3 and GCSE.

The Council has increased its education spending in recent years, prioritising schools in particular, and now spends above the government’s required level. Under a Private Finance Initiative scheme, £40 million has been spent on three new schools. Derby and Derbyshire has also gained from the government’s £45 million ‘Building Schools for the Future’ programme and has started an intensive programme to replace or refurbish all the secondary schools in the county. Derby and Derbyshire will also benefit from the government’s £45 billion ‘Building Schools for the Future’ programme, to replace or refurbish all the secondary schools across the county over the next ten years.

Group of girls doing performing artsThere is a range of highly regarded independent schools within the city and across the county, such as Derby Grammar, Repton School and Derby High School.

The City also benefits from an outstanding City Technology College, Landau Forte which was reported recently by Ofsted as ‘a very good school with many outstanding features. Standards throughout are well above national averages. Teaching is consistently good and this, alongside very positive attitudes and excellent relationships, enables students to achieve very well’.

Derby College – New £12 million 'Joseph Wright Sixth Form Centre'Derby College Logo

Nationally recognised as having ‘Vocational Excellence’ status in Engineering, Construction and Information Communications Technology, Derby College has over 30,000 students.

The new College flag ship building, the Joseph Wright Sixth Form Centre is a first class learning facility, providing the very latest technology.

Exterior of Derby CollegeThe College fully believes in enabling learners to achieve their ambitions and reach their full potential. It offers a range of courses, which is constantly growing and evolving to meet individual learning needs. The programmes range from Beauty to Business, Holistics to Horticulture and Sociology to Sport.

Derby College is thriving in every sense of the word and has big plans for the future, which will benefit the entire community of Derby.

The University of Derby – 'at the vanguard of those driving change in HE'

University of Derby logoThe University of Derby currently has 25,000 students, many based within 12 schools across its multiple sites in state of the art facilities in Derby and Buxton.

Exterior of Derby University, nightDerby excels in meeting its key objective, which is to train and equip people for life and work. It focuses on applied, vocational courses for which it achieves national recognition being regarded as a centre of excellence in a wide variety of subjects consistently scoring well on a national basis for employability and added value.

The Faculty of Business, Computing and Law is recognised as one of the leading vocational business schools in the region with 4,500 UK-based students and has a long track-record of working closely with professional organisations (40 years of working with the NHS, 25 years with accountancy bodies like ACCA) as well as being a Centre of Excellence for professional bodies such as the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.

The Institute of Hospitality and Tourism has moved into a first-rate, high-tech, £15m facility. This development is the result of conversion of Buxton's listed Devonshire Royal Hospital building and it has a rotunda bigger than St Paul's Cathedral.

The University of Derby's Tourism, Spa and Health related courses are highly regarded in the UK having recently received a ‘Centre of Vocational Excellence’ award. It is also one of the first Universities in the UK to offer degree level study of Spa Management based at its campus in Buxton and joining the e-learning portfolio is the new UK Foundation Degree in Hospitality Management, the first of its kind offered through the UK eUniversities programme.

The Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology brings together a diverse range of disciplines encouraging a cross-fertilisation of ideas. It equips the engineers, musicians, artists, designers, and crafts people of tomorrow with innovative ways of thinking to inspire new production processes and creative ways of tackling business issues. It puts Derby at the cutting edge as a centre for regional creative enterprise and not only reinforces the University’s ethos of employability but reflects one of the key attributes of the city which inspired the Industrial Revolution.

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