Academy Plan Struggles to Find Business Support ; Birmingham's Bid to Turn Seven of Its Schools Into Privately-Backed Academies Appears to Be Struggling Due to a Lack of Sponsors for the Controversial Scheme.

Birmingham Post › May 21, 2007

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The city council had originally hoped to find multiple backers for each of the secondaries under the programme, which involves a sponsor forking out pounds 2 million towards a redevelopment.

But despite an extensive marketing and publicity campaign, only two have got to the stage of being formally approved since the plans were announced at the end of 2005.

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Academy Plan Struggles to Find Business Support ; Birmingham's Bid to Turn Seven of Its Schools Into Privately-Backed Academies Appears to Be Struggling Due to a Lack of Sponsors for the Controversial Scheme.

Schools Minister Lord Adonis - chief architect of the academy concept - is due to visit Birmingham next month to launch further details of the plans in a move viewed by critics as an attempt to revive interest in the flagg...

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