The Leading Edge Partnership programme was established in 2003 by the
Department for Children, Schools and Families
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in the
United Kingdom
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.
The programme's intention was to encourage Secondary schools in England to work in partnership to solve some problems in education.
The programme encouraged schools to work to raise achievement through the sharing of proven ideas, and the lead school in each partnership received £60,000 per year to facilitate this. In September 2004 there were around 200 partnerships involving some 1100 schools.
See also
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Specialist schools programme
The specialist schools programme (SSP), first launched as the Technology Colleges programme and also known as the specialist schools initiative, specialist schools policy and specialist schools scheme, was a government programme in the United ...
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Education in England
Education in Wales
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