Technology Schools Initiative

HC Deb 04 May 1993 vol 224 cc7-8W

Dr. Spink

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he intends to take to promote the technology schools initiative in future years; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Forth

Two hundred and twenty-two maintained secondary schools have been awarded capital allocations as a result of competitive bids in the 1992–93 and 1993–94 rounds of the technology schools initiative. The Department is taking steps to promote an active network of TSI schools, with a view to enabling them to share their experience in the teaching of technology and to feeding the benefits of the initiative into other secondary schools. The Government intend to maintain their support for TSI schools. Decisions on whether to invite further bids for 1994–95 or later years have yet to be taken.