In England, a City Technology College (CTC) is a state-funded all-ability secondary school that charges no fees but is independent of local authority control, being overseen directly by the Department for Education. One fifth of the capital costs are met by private business sponsors, who also own or lease the buildings. The rest of the capital costs, and all running costs, are met by the Department.
Education in England is overseen by the United Kingdom's Department for Education. Local government authorities are responsible for implementing policy for public education and state-funded schools at a local level.
Education in Wales differs in certain respects from education elsewhere in the United Kingdom. For example, a significant minority of students all over Wales are educated either wholly or largely through the medium of Welsh: in 2014/15, 15.7% of children and young people received Welsh-medium education - a drop from the 15.9% in 2010/11. An additional 10% attend schools in which significant portion of the curriculum is bilingual. The study of the Welsh language is available to all age groups through nurseries, schools, colleges and universities and in adult education. The study of the language is compulsory for all pupils in State Schools until the age of 16.
The University of Bradford is a public research university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. A plate glass university, it received its royal charter in 1966, making it the 40th university to be created in Britain, but can trace its origins back to the establishment of the industrial West Yorkshire town's Mechanics Institute in 1832.
Education in Singapore is managed by the Ministry of Education (MOE). It controls the development and administration of state schools receiving taxpayers' funding, but also has an advisory and supervisory role in respect of private schools. For both private and state schools, there are variations in the extent of autonomy in their curriculum, scope of taxpayers' aid and funding, tuition burden on the students, and admission policy.
The specialist schools programme was a 1990s UK government initiative which encouraged secondary schools in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust was responsible for the delivery of the programme. The scheme ended in 2010, by which time there were nearly 3,000 specialist schools, which were 88% of the state-funded secondary schools in England.
An academy school in England is a state-funded school which is directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local authority control. The terms of the arrangements are set out in individual Academy Funding Agreements. Most academies are secondary school. However, slightly more than 25% of primary schools, as well, as some of the remaining first and middle schools, are also academies.
Waddesdon Church of England School is a mixed secondary school in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire. In September 2011 the school became an Academy. It takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18 and has approximately 950 pupils, including a sixth form of approximately 200 students. It is a Church of England school and is the only CofE secondary school in Buckinghamshire. It is administered by the Oxford Diocese.
SSAT Limited is a UK-based, independent educational membership organisation working with primary, secondary, special and free schools, academies and UTCs. It provides support and training in four main areas: teaching and learning, curriculum, networking, and leadership development.
Ernest Bevin College is a secondary school and sixth form for boys located in Tooting, London, England. The school is all-boys for ages 11 through 16, but has a co-educational sixth form. It has about 1173 pupils. The school was recently judged as requiring improvement by Ofsted.
Music Colleges were introduced in 2004 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in England. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, music. Schools that successfully applied to the Specialist Schools Trust and became Music Colleges would receive extra funding from this joint private sector and government scheme. Music Colleges act as a local point of reference for other schools and businesses in the area, with an emphasis on promoting music within the community. Since the 2011 discontinuation of the Specialist Programme, schools must become an academy or manage a Dedicated Schools Grant if they wish to become a Music College.
Science Colleges were introduced in 2000 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, science and mathematics. Schools that successfully applied to the Specialist Schools Trust and became Science Colleges received extra funding from this joint private sector and government scheme. Science Colleges act as a local point of reference for other schools and businesses in the area, with an emphasis on promoting science within the community.
St Crispin's School, founded in 1953, is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Wokingham, Berkshire, England. There were 1,164 students at the school in 2017, of whom 234 were in the Sixth form. The school is on the London Road, just outside Wokingham town centre.
Neale-Wade Academy is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status in the market town of March, Cambridgeshire, England. As with many state schools, the current school was the product of a merger of a grammar school and a comprehensive school. The merged school has since grown to become, Fenland's largest secondary school. It was designated Mathematics & Computing specialist status in 2005, and gained academy status in 2013.
The Department for Education (DFE) is the UK government department responsible for child protection, education, apprenticeships and wider skills in England.
A specialist school, also called a specialist college, is a type of secondary school in the United Kingdom that specialises in a certain field of curriculum. In England, most specialist schools were originally maintained schools run by local authorities, however the majority of English specialist schools are now academies. Specialist schools were introduced in 1988 through the discontinued English CTC programme. They were then expanded through the specialist schools programme, a government initiative where schools were encouraged to specialise in subject areas of their choice. These specialisms provided schools with government funding (£100,000) which was then used to expand the provision of the selected subject areas. Since the specialist programme's discontinuation in April 2011, schools in England have gained specialist status freely through academisation or through funding by the Dedicated Schools Grant. In Northern Ireland, the programme was introduced in 2006 and discontinued in August 2011. A replacement model was envisioned but the DENI could not afford the required funding. Scotland entered the programme in 2005 through the schools of ambition initiative, leaving in 2010.
Kirkby High School is a Knowsley based co-educational secondary school educating pupils aged 11–18 years of age in the Kirkby area of Merseyside, England.
Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology (NUAST) is an 11 to 19 free school in Nottingham, England.
SEN Colleges, also known as Special Specialism Colleges, were introduced in 2006 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in England. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields. Specialist SEN Colleges were special schools that successfully applied to the Specialist Schools Trust, receiving extra funding from this joint private sector and government scheme. The first SEN Colleges were introduced in September 2006 and could specialise in four areas:
Applied Learning Colleges, formerly Vocational Colleges, were introduced in 2006 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in England. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, vocational education. Schools that successfully applied to the Specialist Schools Trust and became Applied Learning Colleges received extra funding from this joint private sector and government scheme. In order to fulfil the criteria for Applied Learning College status schools had to either be designated as a High Performing Specialist School or select it as part of a combined specialist when first specialising. By 2009, 164 schools had specialised into an Applied Learning College.
