City Technology College

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

The school type was launched by the Thatcher government in the 1980s . At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, 15 of these mostly relatively large schools with mostly well over 1000 students were established.

The CTCs are co-financed and run by commercial enterprises, which also determine a substantial part of the individual school policy. There is close cooperation between the schools and the commercial enterprises involved in them.

Since the early 2000s, the Blair government has tried to encourage CTCs to transform themselves into so-called City Academies (also called Academies for short), which follow a similar concept created by the Blair government. By 2008, 12 of the 15 CTCs had completed the conversion, three remained CTCs.

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