Darwen Academy, visited by Prince William and Kate Middleton today, has used entrepreneurship to improve results, says the independent school’s sponsor, Capita founder Rod Aldridge.
Capita founder Rod Aldridge is leading a plan to place enterprise at the heart of secondary education in five schools across the UK.
An “entrepreneurship curriculum” has already helped Darwen Academy – visited by Prince William and Kate Middleton on their final pre-wedding engagement on Monday – in Blackburn become one of the most improved schools in the UK, he said.
And now he’s working on plans to repeat the Darwen model in four more schools.