Belfast is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland. It has an estimated population of around 300,000 people. The name Belfast comes from Irish Béal Feirste, which means "mouth of the sandbanks”. Education in the UK is a devolved matter, meaning each of the countries that constitute Great Britain each have separate systems operating under separate governments. For example: the UK government is responsible for England, whilst the Scottish government, Welsh government and the Northern Ireland Executive are in charge of their own country. There are two universities in Belfast, Queens University Belfast and Ulster University. Queens University was founded in 1845. It is a member of the Russell Group, which is an association of the 20 leading research universities in the UK. The university has 25,231 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The Queen University Belfast is a top 30 university in the UK and is ranked 182nd in the world university rankings. The Knowledge Academy, we offer over 50,000 classroom based training courses in the UK, including popular locations such as Belfast.
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