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Minister set his sights on Oxfordshire independent school

Posted on 30th July 2008

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An independent school in Oxfordshire has been targeted by schools minister Lord Adonis to become England's first multilingual academy.

The European School Culham has a strong academic reputation and purports to get ten per cent of its students into Oxbridge every year, the Financial Times reports.

It is one of 14 'European Schools', which are subsidised by the European Commission and were set up for staff working for the body.

The private school teaches children from age four to 18 and pupils receive a bilingual education, learning some subjects in one European language and others in a different one.

Lord Adonis told the newspaper that he is "in principle keen" for the school to become a state-funded academy and said he would be happy for it to continue to teach the International Baccalaureate (IB).
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