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Like most of the UK, Derby operates a non-selective primary and secondary education system with no middle schools. Students attend infant and junior school (often in a combined primary school) before moving onto a comprehensive secondary school. Many secondaries also have sixth forms, allowing students to optionally continue their education by taking A Levels after the end of compulsory education at age 16. For those who want to stay in education but leave school, the large Derby College provides a number of post-16 courses.
Outside the state sector, there are four fee-paying independent schools. Derby Grammar School was founded in 1994 and is for boys only, aiming to continue the work and traditions of the former Derby School, closed in 1989, one of the oldest schools in England; Derby High School is for girls only at secondary level and for boys at primary level; and also Ockbrook School is an independent school for girls aged 3-18 and boys aged 3-11. Lastly, Micheal House Steiner school can be found in Shipley, Heanor and caters for students from kindergarten age through to 16.
Derby also has a City Academy, Landau Forte College, partially state-funded, but also with business backing. It was one of fifteen City Technology Colleges set up by a Conservative government in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it was converted into a City Academy in September 2006.
Derby also has a number of special needs establishments including Ivy House School (which takes pupils from nursery to sixth form) and The Light House which is a respite facility for children and parents.
The University of Derby is the city's university.
In 2003 the University of Nottingham opened a graduate entry medical school based in the Derby City hospital.