summer schools

The brightest 800,000 pupils in England are to be invited to apply to a new breed of university summer schools, which will provide residential and virtual master-classes for the gifted.
Up to 3,000 children, drawn from the top 10 per cent of children in each secondary school, will be eligible for classes at universities in each of the nine regions in England, including Cambridge, Bristol and Durham.
The £3.6 million scheme is part of a drive led by Lord Adonis, the Education Minister, to try to ensure that more bright children are identified early on and to combat concerns that mixed-ability teaching in the state sector fails to challenge the brightest pupils.
Lord Adonis said that the Government needed to do more to meet the needs of very able children.

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