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Technology College status after raising £100,000 in private sponsorship. The first successful applicants were then designated with this status in 1994. The TSI was scrapped and the programme was opened up to all other state schools in November 1994. The programme evolved into the
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reinforcing the initiative's goal of encouraging schools to specialise in technology after the
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The specialist schools programme's funding was mainstreamed in April 2011. Consequently, non-academy schools no longer need to designate and re-designate for
Technology College status, but also no longer receive government grants for using the status. They must now dedicate part of the Dedicated
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was released. Like technology schools, new
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