Bishop Burton College

Bishop Burton College is a further education and higher education college based in Bishop Burton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.College courses include Agriculture, Equine, Animal Management, Public Services, Land-based Engineering and Childcare. The college has facilities including a commercial mixed-use farm, animal management facilities with over 100 species, student accommodation, multiple catering outlets, a gym and an Equine Centre. The college's Equine arena and Learning Resource Centre were opened and visited by the Princess Royal in October 2008.The college hosted the Chinese equine team in the run-up to and including the London 2012 Olympics. It also played host to the FEI European Pony Championships in 2010 and the Junior event in 2014. Bishop Burton College will host the European Pony Championships again in 2018.In August 2013, novelist Will Self, during a holiday walk with his son, asked a security guard if he could take a short-cut across the school grounds. Self was refused permission and was later stopped and questioned on suspicion of being a paedophile by Yorkshire police, who had been alerted by the security guard.