Aimed at school refusers and those not suited to mainstream, Duke’s Education model will provide virtual and classroom learning
The first UK-wide hybrid school, teaching children up to sixth-form age both from home and in person, will open in September 2024.
Duke’s Education schools will expect students to come in for at least one day a week for practical subjects, and to take part in sporting and social activities. For the rest of the week, it will offer four live lessons and two independent study sessions a day.
Designed for school refusers, those with anxiety or those whose parents feel there are no suitable local schools, and students who want to fit their education around sporting or other extracurricular commitments, the school has ambitions to open its doors to children across Europe.
“Unlike other online schools, we are not a temporary phase, we are a proper school,” said Ambreen Baig, who is modelling the Duke’s schools on the more limited model she set up at London’s Portland Place independent school in September 2020.
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