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Nick Gibb: We’re setting up more free schools to raise standards

Adele, Amy Whitehouse and Tom Holland have something in common beyond their obvious brilliance. They all went to the Brit School in Croydon.

The school was set up in 1991 by Mark Featherstone-Witty; he had been inspired by the film Fame, based on New York’s High School of Performing Arts.

Since then the Brit School has gone from strength to strength, and its combination of academic and creative studies has produced some of the finest performers in the world. Collectively, former pupils have sold more than 250 million albums and won 15 Brit awards, with many more working behind the scenes in creative industries. The school has been so successful it even managed to impress Apple’s boss, Tim Cook, who said he had never

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