Editing Alsager (section)

==Education==

===Schools===
Public education, at primary and secondary school level, is managed by [[Cheshire East|Cheshire East Council]] and the [[Alsager Community Trust]]. The Alsager Community Trust is a co-operative trust, in which all the schools in the town are members. Secondary education is provided by [[Alsager School]], an [[Academy (English school)|Academy school]], that is situated opposite the former Manchester Metropolitan University campus. It is attended by over 1,300 pupils<ref name="Alsager School website">[http://www.alsagerschool.co.uk/ Alsager School website.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509173005/http://www.alsagerschool.co.uk/ |date=9 May 2008 }} Retrieval Date: 10 August 2007.</ref> between the ages of 11 and 18. Alsager School is a [[Business and Enterprise College]].<ref name="Alsager School website" />

Six primary schools feed into Alsager School: Alsager Highfields, Cranberry Academy, Excalibur Primary School, Pikemere School, Rode Heath School and St Gabriel's R.C. Primary School.

===Former Manchester Metropolitan University===
[[File:MMU Cheshire Alsager.JPG|thumb|The former Alsager campus of Manchester Metropolitan University, long since closed and demolished]]
During the Second World War a hostel built of wooden army huts was constructed on the site of the MMU to house workers at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Radway Green, and was called "Heathside". In 1945 it became "Alsager Training College" for the training of teachers which were in short supply at that time. The wooden huts were still in use for housing of students until the early 1960s.
The MMU Alsager was home to the Contemporary Arts and Sports Science Departments of the [[Manchester Metropolitan University]]. The University absorbed the former Crewe & Alsager College of Higher Education, forming the Crewe and Alsager Faculty, subsequently renamed MMU Cheshire. The Alsager Arts Centre was also on campus, and promoted touring contemporary dance, music, theatre, live art, performance writing and visual art events to the public as well as members of the University community.

In 2006 the university started transferring staff and departments from Alsager to the Crewe campus, as part of plans for closure of the Alsager site.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 November 2009 |title=Job cuts planned at MMU Cheshire |url=http://beta.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Fight-save-campus-jobs/article-1522322-detail/article.html |access-date=3 June 2010 |website=The Sentinel}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The Arts Centre also moved to the MMU campus in Crewe, and was renamed the Axis Arts Centre.<ref>[http://www.axisartscentre.org.uk/cms/page.php?page=about Axis Arts Centre website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100322213332/http://www.axisartscentre.org.uk/cms/page.php?page=about |date=22 March 2010 }}</ref> As of 2012 the entire Alsager campus had long since closed and fallen into disrepair.

In 2015 the former campus on Hassall Road was earmarked for a total of 408 new houses.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/news/application-build-408-homes-former-10457636|title=Application to build 408 homes on former MMU campus in Alsager|first=Belinda|last=Ryan|date=17 November 2015|website=crewechronicle|access-date=14 July 2021|archive-date=14 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414154035/https://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/news/application-build-408-homes-former-10457636|url-status=live}}</ref> By early 2018 all of the campus buildings had been demolished and the site cleared. Soon afterwards, construction of a new housing estate named "Scholar's Place" commenced on the site of the former Alsager campus.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}