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Plans revealed for a second BRIT School
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 23 September 2011
Tory Lord Kenneth Baker yesterday announced plans to launch a second BRIT School, this time in the North West within the Media City complex in Salford. The former Conservative minister, who in the late 1980s spearheaded the scheme that led to the launch of the existing BRIT School – or the London School For Performing Arts & Technology – in Croydon, said that establishing a state-funded secondary school “along the same lines” in Salford’s Media City was a “very sensible” idea.
The new school would be independent from the London BRIT School, and would possibly differ in some ways – including the age range of its pupils – but there would be many similarities with the Croydon college. Although the plans are clearly at a very early stage, Baker – who now chairs the Baker Dearing Educational Trust and Edge Foundation – announced the new project at a day of events designed to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the existing BRIT School.
As previously reported, according to Music Week research musical graduates from the BRIT School have together sold over 65 million albums worldwide.
