The Generating Genius programme, devised by Dr Tony Sewell, non-executive director of The Learning Trust in Hackney, will fly 20 12-year-old boys to Jamaica to study at the University of the West Indies in Kingston.
Candidates will be nominated by the secondary schools. One of the key issues for Sewell is to target boys who may do very well in primary school but "get stuck" in secondary school.
"I'm not going after the scientific masters of the universe," he said. "Motivation for these boys drops in secondary school so this is very relevant to their futures, seeing where study is leading to and harnessing that talent."
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