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Solihull Sixth Form College
Solihull Sixth Form College is a further education college for students aged 16 to 19. It is situated on the outskirts of Solihull in the West Midlands and draws students from across Solihull and Birmingham. Founded in 1974, the college consists of several large buildings on a single site. The college offers different subjects at A-Level, as well as a small number of vocational courses. The college received an Ofsted inspection in February 2020 with the rating "Good". Alumni *Sophie Baggaley, association football goalkeeper *Elizabeth Bower, actress * Anna Brewster, model and actress from ''The Tudors'' *Shefali Chowdhury, actress *Lucy Davis, actress *Julian Eastoe, chemist *Simon Fowler, lead singer of rock group Ocean Colour Scene * Richard Harrison, Head of Space Physics and Chief Scientist at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory * Justin King, former CEO of Sainsbury's *Gary Knight, war photographer * See also *Sixth form References External links * Report on the c ...
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Solihull
Solihull (, or ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in West Midlands County, England. The town had a population of 126,577 at the 2021 Census. Solihull is situated on the River Blythe in the Forest of Arden area. Solihull's wider borough had a population of 216,240 at the 2021 Census. Solihull itself is mostly urban; however, the larger borough is rural in character, with many outlying villages, and three quarters of the borough is designated as green belt. The town and its borough, which has been part of Warwickshire for most of its history, has roots dating back to the 1st century BC, and was further formally established during the medieval era. Today the town is famed as, amongst other things, the birthplace of the Land Rover car marque, the home of the British equestrian eventing team and is considered to be one of the most prosperous areas in the UK. History Toponymy Solihull's name is commonly thought to have deri ...
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Julian Eastoe
Julian Grahame Eastoe (born January 1965) is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bristol. His research interests span colloid and interface science, surfactant chemistry and applications of neutron scattering. He was educated at Solihull Sixth Form College and the University of East Anglia (BSc Chemistry, 1986; PhD, 1990). He was awarded the Rideal Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry and Society for Chemical Industry in 2007 for "distinction in colloid or interface science", and the 2015 ECIS-Solvay medal from thEuropean Colloid and Interface Society“for original scientific work of outstanding quality". He is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. He has an h-index of 77 according to Google Scholar Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes ...
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Education In Solihull
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ...
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