CYP Now - Education news: Youth development - Medical training to help "stuck" boys

Schools in Surrey are forming close-knit working groups with police, social services and volunteers to meet challenges thrown up by the Children Bill.Black boys from east London who are underperforming in secondary school will be given the opportunity to study medicine and forensics in an effort to improve achievement.

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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