City Technology College
In
Description
CTCs operate as
CTCs teach the
Development
Plans to establish schools or colleges for technology in major urban areas were first reported in an article from
In January 1986, a
A new Secretary of State for Education and Science, Kenneth Baker, was appointed on 21 May 1986. An advocate of technical education and technology in general,[16] Baker was drawn towards the concept of schools for information technology,[12] having formed this interest during his tenure as the Minister for Industry and Information Technology in the early 1980s. Computers were a rarity in schools at the time, so Baker set up an initiative to introduce a computer to every school in the country.[17] Now in his position as Education Secretary, Baker wished to further improve digital learning and computing in the education system, and wanted to introduce schools for computing and information technology as a way to do so.[18] In addition, schools for general technology were expected to give pupils the correct skills for employment,[19] which supported the recommendations made some months prior by Cyril Taylor and his business leaders.
The policy for the schools proposed in January's meeting, dubbed City Technology Colleges or simply CTCs, was developed in the five months following Baker's appointment. This was influenced from talks surrounding other proposed technical schools, namely the technology-plus schools proposed by Bob Dunn, which occurred at the same time.
Implementation
Finally, Baker announced the City Technology Colleges programme at the 1986
The first CTCs opened under the terms of the Education Reform Act 1988 in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The first City Technology College opened was The City Technology College, Kingshurst in 1988, which was later converted to an academy in 2008. The original intention was to improve education inside cities, but the programme was hampered by the refusal of local authorities in the targeted areas to provide suitable school sites. Building entirely new schools was much more expensive, requiring a greater contribution from the government, and the resulting schools tended to be on the outskirts of cities. After the programme was abandoned, the government embarked on the more modest aim of designating some existing schools as Technology Colleges, the first non-CTC specialist schools.[23]
The Learning and Skills Act 2000 introduced a similar type of school, the City Academy, later renamed Academy. Differences from CTCs include halving the financial commitment of the sponsor, and being bound by the Schools Admissions Code. The Labour government encouraged CTCs to convert into academies.[3]
List of CTCs
Established
In all, 15 City Technology Colleges were created, of which all but three have converted to academies:[3][24]
School | Local Authority | Primary Sponsor[25][26] | Opened as a CTC | Converted to Academy |
---|---|---|---|---|
ADT College | Wandsworth | ADT Limited | 1992 | 2007 |
Bacon's College | Southwark | Southwark Diocesan Board of Education, | 1991 | 2007 |
BRIT School | Croydon | British Record Industry Trust |
1991 | no |
Brooke Weston College |
Corby | Hugh de Capell Brooke, Garry Weston[27] | 1991 | 2008 |
Dixons Bradford CTC | Bradford | Dixons Group plc |
1990 | 2005 |
Djanogly CTC | Nottingham | Harry Djanogly | 1989 | 2003 |
Emmanuel CTC | Gateshead | Reg Vardy Foundation | 1990 | no |
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College
|
Lewisham | The Haberdasher's Company |
1991 | 2005 |
Harris CTC | Croydon | Philip and Pauline Harris Charitable Trust | 1990 | 2008 |
John Cabot CTC | South Gloucestershire | Wolfson Foundation, Cable & Wireless plc | 1993 | 2007 |
The City Technology College, Kingshurst
|
Solihull | Hanson Industries | 1988 | 2008 |
Landau Forte College | Derby | Landau Foundation, Forte plc | 1992 | 2006 |
Leigh CTC |
Kent | Sir Geoffrey N. Leigh[28] | 1990 | 2007 |
Macmillan CTC | Middlesbrough
|
British American Tobacco[29] | 1989 | 2006 |
Thomas Telford School | Telford and Wrekin | Tarmac plc |
1991 | no |
Proposed
Although there were only 15 City Technology Colleges by the end of the programme, there were a number of additional proposed CTCs that never opened:[30]
School/Site Awaiting Conversion | Local Authority | Primary Sponsor |
---|---|---|
Stretford Grammar School | Manchester | Biwater |
Thames Wharf | London Docklands | Cable & Wireless plc, London Docklands |
De La Salle College of Higher Education | Manchester | Pentland Industries, British Aerospace |
Allan Glen's School, Our Lady and St
Francis' All-girls Secondary School[31] |
Glasgow | Trusthouse Forte
|
None, new school would be built | Swindon | W H Smith
|
No site decided | Coventry | Jaguar and Wates |
King Richard School
|
Portsmouth | No sponsor decided |
No site decided | No area decided | Paul Hamlyn |
Richard Taunton School | Southampton | Beebe Chamber of Commerce |
Merchant Venturers School | Bristol | Bristol Polytechnic
|
No site decided | Leeds | Asda, Vickers |
See also
- Academy (English school)
- State-funded schools (England)
- University Technical College
References
Citations
- ^ a b c Walter (2007), p. 6
- ^ "Types of school". childlawadvice.org.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ a b c d e "CTCs (City Technology Colleges)". Department for Children, Schools and Families. Archived from the original on 4 March 2005. Retrieved 11 November 2008.
- ISBN 9781847313317.
- ^ Ainley (1990), p. 10
- ^ Chitty (1989), p. 189
- ^ Walford (2005), p. 174
- ^ Whitty, Edwards, Edwards, Gewirtz (1993), p. 19
- ^ a b Bailey (2016), p. 167
- ^ a b Bailey (2016), pp. 170โ171
- ^ a b Williamson, Sue (11 April 2013). "Baroness Thatcher, Sir Cyril Taylor and the City Technology Colleges". SSAT. Archived from the original on 12 July 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
- ^ a b Walter (2007), p. 5
- ^ a b Bailey (2016), p. 168
- ^ Taylor (1986), p. 2
- ^ Taylor (1986), pp. 29 and 37
- ISBN 9781912208586.
- ^ Bailey (2016), p. 135
- ^ Baker, Kenneth; Jarvis, Fred; McVittie, Joan (13 July 2018). "Education would never be the same again..." TES Magazine.
- ^ Bailey (2016), p. 136
- ^ Bailey (2016), p. 170
- ^ Bailey (2016), pp. 169โ170
- ^ ISSN 0963-8253– via Lawrence Wishart.
- ^ Smithers, Alan; Robinson, Pamela (2009). "Specialist science schools" (PDF). Centre for Education and Employment Research, University of Buckingham. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2009.
- ^ "House of Commons Hansard Written Answers". UK Parliament. 19 May 2002. Retrieved 11 November 2008.
- ^ "City Technology Colleges Volume 176: debated on Wednesday 18 July 1990". Hansard. 18 July 1990. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
- ^ "City Technology Colleges Volume 227: debated on 29 June 1993". Hansard. 29 May 1993.
- ^ "Prospectus: Our Sponsors". Brooke Weston Academy. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016.
- ^ "Sir Geoffrey Leigh". The Leigh Academy. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
- ^ Beckett, Francis (17 January 2005). "Blair's flagship schools and the money that never was". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.
- ^ Taylor, Cyril (1 July 1988). "Education: Chairman of the City Technology Colleges Trust letter to MT (City Arts Technology College and CTC sponsorship) [thanks, and progress report on sponsorship recruitment in advance of dinner to be hosted by MT at No.10] [declassified 2016]" (PDF). Margaret Thatcher Foundation.
- ^ "Labour policy defied as first technology academy starts". The Herald. 4 April 1990.
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- Chitty, Clyde (1989). Towards A New Education System: The Victory Of The New Right?. ISBN 9781351538831.
- Walford, Geoffrey (2005). Private Education: Tradition and Diversity. A&C Black. ISBN 9781847144089.
- Whitty, Geoff; Edwards, Anthony Davies; Edwards, Tony; Gewirtz, Sharon (1993). Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education: The City Technology College Experiment. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415085274.
- Walter, Christine (2007). By Schools for Schools: The Origins, History and Influence of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, 1987-2007 (PDF). ISBN 978-1-905150-96-0.
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- Bailey, Elizabeth Cookingham (2016). The Development of the City Technology College Programme: 1980s conservative ideas about English secondary education (PDF). London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). OCLC 1063722947.