An academy dedicated to engineering has welcomed its first 120 pupils, four years after the vision for the school was conceived. The Year 10 students arrived for lessons at the new GBP22 million JCB Academy in Rocester, Staffordshire where they will study a curriculum designed to encourage careers in engineering. The JCB Academy is the brainchild of Sir Anthony Bamford who in his 35 years as chairman of JCB has championed the cause of British manufacturing and long voiced his concern over its decline and the dearth of young people with engineering skills emerging from the education system. Sir Anthony is seen here on the right of a group of students with principal, Jim Wade on the left.
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