City technology colleges — A study of the character and progress of an educational reform

References

• ‘A New Choice of School’, booklet introducing the CTC initiative (hereafter referred to in these notes as NCS), page 9.
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• NCS, p. 8.
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• Summarized from NCS, p. 4.
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• Paragraph 39 of that Consultation Paper.
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• 1987 . ‘Qualifying Pupils for the Year 2000’ . Daily Telegraph , 17 August
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• 1987 . ‘Keenness is the Key for City College Hopefuls’ . Observer , 4 October
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• NCS, pp. 6 and 3.
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• Paragraph 2 of that Consultation Paper.
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• NCS, p. 2.
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• Secretary of State at a CBI Education and Training Group meeting, 14 October 1986.
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• The full list is North Peckham; Notting Hill; Hackney; Newham; Moss Side, Manchester; Liverpool; Knowsley; Handsworth; Birmingham; Coventry; Sandwell; Wolverhampton; Highfields, Leicester; Derby; Nottingham; Chapeltown, Leeds; Bradford; Hull; Middlesbrough; Newcastle/Gateshead; Sunderland; Preston; Norwich; Portsmouth; Southampton; St Pauls, Bristol; Plymouth.
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• The co‐relation is most marked in Leicester and Nottingham, but it is to be found elsewhere in the Midlands, in Bristol, Portsmouth, Norwich, Newcastle and Bradford. It is much less obvious in the North West, London and in the North‐East outside Newcastle.
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• February 1986 . “ ‘City Technology Colleges: A Speculative Investment’ ” . February , AMA . The material in the following paragraphs is summarized from that publication.
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• 1987 . The Independent , 25 September Interview with the Head designate, in
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• NCS, p. 10. See also the analysis of Examination Results prepared by Sheffield University on the basis of the Social Composition of the LEA. On this analysis, which was published in Education and Training UK 1987, eight LEAs singled out as CTC sites ‐ Liverpool, Coventry, Newcastle, Manchester, Cleveland, Wolverhampton, Sunderland and Birmingham ‐ were in the top 20.
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• 1987 . ‘Archbishop Blocking City College’ . Guardian , 13 October For the attitude of the Church on Merseyside see an article in the
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• 1987 . Bishop of London on , 2 November see press reports of the correspondence in the Daily Telegraph and The Independent on 3 November.
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• In a speech to the NAS/UWT Education Conference.
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• 1987 . Times Educational Supplement , 25 September
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• 1987 . TES , 23 October But by the end of October 1987, the LEA had voted not to proceed with the reorganization plan which would have provided a surplus school suitable for purchase for use as a CTC.
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• 1987 . Hansard , 3 November cols 766‐767, where the ‘dog in the manger attitude of local authorities in refusing sites is criticized by Mr Baker. The report of the House of Commons Education Committee on DES expenditure plans 1987/88 ‐ 1989/90, and in particular the Secretary of State's evidence given on 7 April 1987 is instructive about the consistent optimism on sponsors: ‘we will be announcing a series of colleges in the months to come'; ‘there is great enthusiasm for this and we are on our way’.
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• 1987 . The Independent , 20 July specifically discounts the use of compulsory purchase. The sort of incentive to LEAs which might encourage release of sites would be freedom from restrictions on the use of capital receipts ‐ it has not been forthcoming.
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• Paragraph 29 of the consultative paper on grant maintained schools.
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• Daily Telegraph article quoted at note 5 above.
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• Speech delivered on 30 September 1987.
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• 1987 . ‘Councils may be able to conduct some school services, such as maintenance, or even become part sponsors.’ . Sunday Telegraph , 2 August See also the suggestion in the grant Maintained Schools Consultation Paper that LEAs would retain residual responsibilities to schools which ‘opt out’.
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