Article: Lessons in pop music to calm unruly pupils

DISRUPTIVE teenagers are to be sent out of school to study pop music and television under new Government plans designed to stop them drifting on to the dole queue when they leave.

Ministers will announce in the autumn that a network of studios will be set up in which youngsters of 14 and older will be able to learn the skills of the pop, film and television industries.

One objective is to give them practical training which will equip them for possible jobs in what are expanding, multi-million pound businesses.

The other aim is to help prepare the pupils - many of whom are likely to be regular truants - for employment by giving them an incentive to turn up regularly.

The move, which is being ...

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