About the archive
How we edit the archive
How academy dates, curriculum accounts and original STEM exercises are sourced, checked and corrected in the independent BTE Academy Archive.
A school can open to pupils on one date and hold its opening ceremony on another. A sponsor, an employer hosting a project and a trust operating a school can each have a different role. When reconstructing BTE Academy's history, we make those distinctions explicit.
Establishing the record
For establishment dates we start with government records. For inspections we use the dated Ofsted report. For courses, projects and events we look for the academy's own material from the relevant year or a contemporary account that names the activity. Sources appear with the page they support. A course listed in one prospectus establishes what the academy advertised for that intake. It cannot establish what every pupil studied.
Writing and illustrations
The archive's accounts are newly written. A missing prospectus or statement is described in the document catalogue when its existence can be established. Original exercises and illustrative images are presented as learning material. We give a source and credit when using material supplied by others.
New articles and editorial responsibility
Tom Turner is responsible for publication decisions and corrections. Some new articles are drafted with AI assistance. Automated drafts require editorial approval before they can be released to this website. Drafting tools and a list of citations do not establish that an article is accurate or original.
Review must check the article's engineering or educational purpose, its worked examples, the support for its factual claims and the relevance of each link. Practical activities must state their limits and appropriate safety precautions. Articles must not include unrelated commercial links or keyword-led promotion. Sources should support the point for which they are cited. The engineering exercises are independently produced learning material, rather than teaching resources issued by the former academy.
Suggest a correction
Send the page address, your proposed correction and a public source through the archive contact page. A date, report title or page number can help locate the evidence. We check suggestions before amending published text. Changes to an article's substance can be recorded in its updated date. Its original publication date stays with the article.