City Technology College

City Technology Colleges ( CTCs ) are secondary schools in England.

The type of school was founded in the 1980s by the Thatcher government in life. The late 1980s and early 1990s made ​​up of 15 of these mostly relatively large schools, usually with well over 1000 students.

The CTCs are co-funded and implemented, which also determine a substantial part of individual school policies of business enterprises. There is a close cooperation between the schools and the dedicated them in business enterprises.

Since the early 2000s, the government under Tony Blair, TCS tried to encourage them into so-called City Academies, (also known as short Academies ) remodel that follow a similar, set up by the Blair government concept. By 2008, 12 of the 15 CTC 's have completed the conversion, three CTCs remain.

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