Friday, November 4, 2011

Business-backed university technical colleges to open next year

BlackBerry, Toshiba, Boeing and Rolls Royce among the sponsors of the new system of vocational schools integral

A new wave of mainstream schools supported by companies like the makers of BlackBerry, Toshiba, Boeing and Rolls Royce in England will open next year as part of a new generation of training centers professional in the business to help shape the curriculum.

known as technical colleges, schools include Newcastle with a focus on engineering, one in Liverpool, which specializes in life sciences and support of the company Novartis, the other in Plymouth supported by the Royal Navy and Babcock, a manufacturer of defense equipment.

Research in Motion, which developed the BlackBerry is a business partner of a school in Buckinghamshire, which is also supported by Hewlett Packard and Cisco.

schools, 14 -. At 19, are sponsored by universities and businesses will help provide training that meets their needs for skilled workers

Education Secretary Michael Gove announced the opening of the vocational school in a joint statement, which also confirmed that 63 schools are expected to open next year.

New free schools, which are independent of local authorities and created in response to the request of parents and includes a Steiner school in Frome, Somerset, an elementary school in Brighton, will be bilingual in English and Spanish a school in east London is set by Peter Hyman, former adviser to Tony Blair.

high school, the London Academy of Excellence is supported by a group of private schools run by Brighton College. Eton College will offer an English teacher, which will help to prepare teenagers for college admission.

London Academy of Excellence, opened in Newham, will have a selective admissions policy - requiring as five GCSE. The college diploma has an academic approach, which limits to 12 students 'difficult' subjects like mathematics, physics and history.

Richard Cairns, head of Brighton College, said: "We are not dealing with the cream of the best and brightest of the East End We try to identify a larger pool of talent there a lot .. to make children brilliant GCSE evil, properly motivated, and dropping to 16. "

Scope for expansion of the free school program is limited by pressure on the capital budget of the Ministry of Education. There is a long queue of existing schools rebuilt after the cancellation of the construction of schools for the future and a massive accumulation of repair.
Rachel Wolf, director of Network new schools, the charity that provides advice to groups who want to open free schools, said: "We are delighted that so many groups to quality will create new schools in the state in 2012. However, based on the size and volume of proposals we have seen, we believe that the DEA was more cautious in some of their assessments. As the policy develops, we expect to see a significant increase in the number of groups that are approved, especially with highly innovative proposals. "
DfE

A spokesman said: ". We make no excuses for not approving the proposals for free school more »


Another set of free schools, children with special needs or behavioral problems will be published later this year.



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