schools was long filled by a form of the Assisted Places Scheme that provided state funding to send children to one of the two independent schools in the town, Stamford School (boys) and Stamford High School (girls), that were formerly direct-grant grammars. The national scheme was abolished by the 1997 Labour government. The Stamford arrangements remained in place as an increasingly protracted transitional arrangement. In 2008, the council decided no new places could be funded and the arrangement finally ended in 2012. The town has one comprehensive school, Stamford Welland Academy (formerly Stamford Queen Eleanor School). This was formed in the late 1980s after the dissolution of the town's two comprehensive schools – Fane and Exeter. Louth Louth had a new FE college built in September 2008, called the Wolds College, next door to the Cordeaux School. Scunthorpe and Grimsby Most secondary schools in Scunthorpe have been renamed or replaced in the past few years. Grimsby has falling school numbers. Community education A variety of community education programmes operate in partnership with Lincolnshire County Council, including ones at local further education colleges and others run by charitable trusts, such as Pelican Trust, or operating as community interest companies such as Community Learning in Partnership (CLIP) which provides lifelong training as well a work-based learning scheme for young people in the UK aged 16–18 who are not engaged in any kind of employment, education or training. References External links Engineering Diploma in east Lincolnshire