A report by ResPublica calls for a partnership between the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Education to create a chain of academies in areas where there are high numbers of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet).
Eventually the programme could be extended to all local authority areas with ResPublica suggesting that residents could petition for military academies to be opened.
"We believe that riot-hit areas will be among those neighbourhoods that will particularly benefit from this initiative," the report states.
Military academies would create and teach from a unique curriculum, using expertise already existing in the Armed Forces.
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