In England, City Technology Colleges (CTCs) are independent schools which charge no fees as their recurrent costs are paid by the DfES and businesses within the private sector. City Technology Colleges specialise in teaching mainly technology based subjects such technology, science and maths. The programme was established in the late 80s by the Conservative government by the Education Reform Act 1988 with the Colleges themselves opening in the late 80s/early 90s. Education in England differs from the system used elsewhere in the United Kingdom. ... The Department for Education and Skills is a department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001. ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a level of technological mastery sufficient to leave the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Science For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... Mathematics is commonly defined as the study of patterns of structure, change, and space; more informally, one might say it is the study of figures and numbers. Mathematical knowledge is constantly growing, through research and application, but mathematics itself is not usually considered a natural science. ... The Education Reform Act of 1988 is widely regarded as the most important single piece of Education legislation since the 1944 Butler Education Act. ...

CTCs also forge close links with businesses and industry (mainly through their sponsors), and often their governors are directors of local or national businesses that are supporting or have supported the colleges. The programme has been successful in the long term with all the CTCs being considered strong establishments with consistently high Academic results.

The government is currently encouraging CTCs to convert into City Academies (see City Academy), although the differences between the two types of school are relatively small (the main being one being that CTCs are allowed to select pupils whilst Academies are not). Two CTC conversions are due to open as Academies in September 2005. A city academy is a type of British secondary school, of which one of the major architects was Andrew Adonis in his capacity as education advisor to the Prime Minister (now Lord Adonis, a junior Minister at the Department for Education and Skills) in the late 1990s. ...

List of CTCs

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See also

• Specialist school