Technology College

[2] The Education Reform Act 1988 made technology mandatory, however the Conservative government were unable to afford the cost of funding schools to teach the subject.

This was expected to mitigate the programme's failure and allow the government to gradually pay for the subject of technology.

[4] From 1991, secondary schools were granted additional funds as a reward for specialising in technology in order to improve the curricular provision of technical education.

[7] The Conservative manifesto for the 1992 general election promised to "expand the initiative across the country",[8] with the July 1992 education white paper Choice and Diversity: A new framework for schools reinforcing the initiative's goal of encouraging schools to specialise in technology after the Conservatives' victory.

[9] In the same year, another education white paper Technology colleges: schools for the future was released.