Silverstone motor racing circuit is to house one of the first in a new wave of specialist university technical colleges (UTCs).
Set up with Northampton University and a local college, it will be one of 13 UTCs to offer highly technical subjects to teenagers from next year.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said the UTCs "have the potential to change the lives of thousands for the better."
Others argue they risk setting children on a rigid career path too early.
The government also announced on Monday that it had approved 55 new free schools.
This includes one being set up by the prestigious independent school Brighton College in a deprived part of east London but targeting poor, bright teenagers across the city.
And plans for the first bilingual primary school, which aims to teach in English 50% of the time and Spanish the rest, have also been approved.
Like free schools, university technical colleges are a flagship Conservative policy. They are being pioneered by former Education Secretary Kenneth Baker.
They are similar to German technical schools, where students can elect to follow skills-based education from their mid-teens.
The other 12 new UTCs will be established in Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Burnley, Bedfordshire, Daventry, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, Sheffield, Southwark and Wigan.
There are already two UTCs open in England, one sponsored by heavy plant manufacturers JCB in Staffordshire and the other, The Black Country UTC, in Walsall in the West Midlands. And three more are already in the pipeline.
They offer 14- to 19-year-olds the opportunity to take a full time, technically oriented course of study and are supposed to be very well equipped with modern technical facilities.
They are sponsored by a university and aim to offer clear routes into higher education or further learning in work.
Set up with Northampton University and a local college, it will be one of 13 UTCs to offer highly technical subjects to teenagers from next year.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said the UTCs "have the potential to change the lives of thousands for the better."
Others argue they risk setting children on a rigid career path too early.
The government also announced on Monday that it had approved 55 new free schools.
This includes one being set up by the prestigious independent school Brighton College in a deprived part of east London but targeting poor, bright teenagers across the city.
And plans for the first bilingual primary school, which aims to teach in English 50% of the time and Spanish the rest, have also been approved.
Like free schools, university technical colleges are a flagship Conservative policy. They are being pioneered by former Education Secretary Kenneth Baker.
They are similar to German technical schools, where students can elect to follow skills-based education from their mid-teens.
The other 12 new UTCs will be established in Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Burnley, Bedfordshire, Daventry, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, Sheffield, Southwark and Wigan.
There are already two UTCs open in England, one sponsored by heavy plant manufacturers JCB in Staffordshire and the other, The Black Country UTC, in Walsall in the West Midlands. And three more are already in the pipeline.
They offer 14- to 19-year-olds the opportunity to take a full time, technically oriented course of study and are supposed to be very well equipped with modern technical facilities.
They are sponsored by a university and aim to offer clear routes into higher education or further learning in work.
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