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29-05-2003 12:12pm#1Hmm.... why can't we have Terry Pratchett
From http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,963874,00.html
Pratchett backs academy for gifted teens
Rebecca Smithers, education correspondent
Tuesday May 27, 2003
The Guardian
Britain's most popular living author, Terry Pratchett, has lent his support to the government's new Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth by giving his name to a scholarship in creative writing.
The academy, which Labour promised as part of its programme to support very able children at every stage of their learning, was set up last year at the University of Warwick.
It offers summer school programmes for young teenagers, conferences, scholarships and web-based teaching, and is modelled on a long-established programme at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Pratchett emerged from the BBC's recent survey of the nation's reading habits, The Big Read, as Britain's most-read author, along with Charles Dickens.
He has an honorary doctorate from Warwick and is expected to make an appearance at the academy at the beginning of the summer-school programme.
The news is bound to to please the education secretary, Charles Clarke, who is keen to recruit well-known figures from the arts, sciences and music to his campaign to exploit teachers' enthusiasm for individual subjects.
The academy relies on private sector sponsorship to fund many of its activities, and further sponsors will be named shortly. The next to be confirmed is expected to be Caterpillar, the manufacturer of tractors and other machinery, which has agreed to commit £32,000 over two years.
The investment bank Goldman Sachs has given £235,000 to support the teaching of entrepreneurship and National Grid Transco is giving £60,000 over three years.
They are both keen to encourage bright youngsters to consider careers in engineering. National Grid Transco is inviting youngsters to its headquarters to study such phenomena as the national "power surge" used to rate the popularity of TV programmes, when viewers put on the kettle as the credits roll or during an ad break.
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