A CHISLEHURST school has been awarded specialist status as part of Government plans to increase science skills within the workforce.
Coopers School, in Hawkwood Road, is now a specialist technology college with particular attention paid to maths, technology, IT and science.
Technology colleges commit themselves to a four-year development plan to improve their standards as a whole and to raise the post-16 participation rate in the specialist subject areas.
Headteacher Robert Dilley said: "Our aim is to create a better future today in a society dominated by technology.
"We have been overwhelmed by the support from parents and the local business community in our bid to become a technology college."
July 12, 2002 10:00
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