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	Excellence in Cities (EiC) is designed to remedy successive failures to address the educational problems of the major cities.
	The aim of EiC is to drive up standards in schools in major cities higher and faster to match the standards of excellence found in our best schools.
	There are seven main policy strands:
	City Learning Centres (CLCs) - setting up 30 CLCs set up by September 2000 Specialist schools giving priority to EiC areas Gifted and talented children The first stage of the national strategy for the education of gifted and talented pupils is the implementation of the gifted and talented children strand of the Excellence in Cities initiative. Beacon schools setting up at least one new Beacon school in each LEA in EiC target areas each year between 1999/2000 and 2001/2002 Learning Mentors giving every young person in target areas access to a mentor if they need one Learning Support Units (LSUs) - giving all schools in target areas access to an LSU Education Action Zones (EAZs) - setting up small EAZs focused on a single secondary school within EiC partnerships
	is the Government's new initiative designed to address the under-representation of students from disadvantaged backgrounds in Higher Education.
	Clusters bring the benefits of EiC to smaller areas of deprivation, including coastal towns, deprived rural areas, ex-coalfield and industrial towns.

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