"> In my opinion as a current parent, this is no better than any other secondary. They do not study high performance engineering, have out-dated workshops. Don't do it – this school is more interested in Ofsted reports than its pupils. To the cost of the whole school.

"> They say that they are a good school yet the average for students recieving 5 A*-C is 36%, 17% below average. The teachers regulalry leave and then students just having cover teachers for months learning nothing. They ask for 5 A*-C for 6th form. No exceptions yet the reason many students aren't meeting the requirements are due to lack of teaching.

"> I was in the first ever intake of students for Silverstone UTC and I can honestly say it was the worst mistake. I was promised great things from this school. To start with I was told I would be able to study French and was later told I couldn't do it and was made to take German instead. I was excited to take 'events management' but I spent the first year learning at a university standard because the course was taught by a university lecturer. I had learnt things at a higher lever but the teacher had missed out the lower level material meaning that me and my class mates all failed that year resulting in us, effectively, having to cram four years of work into 8 months with a new teacher. There was little pastoral care for the first year of school and no school nurse, no one to talk to about our problems and no one to seek help/ advice from.

"> Teaching and school is terrible, in my opinion. At 18 you're not allowed to leave the building, so you spend from 9-5 stuck inside a small building.

"> As my son is about to join UTC in September, I was worried about the "poor teaching" comment. I have been assured by the deputy principal, that the current expected results are showing to be above national average. Also that the machinery is used as and when required, as opposed to a "factory-system". I phoned and left a message about my concerns one evening and was contacted the very next morning.

"> In my opinion they have very poor teaching. My son failed his first year although the teachers said he had passed and we later found out he had not. He now has to do the equivalent of 2 years work in one year. Also this is not a practical based school, they have all the machines yet they sit in the classrooms doing written work.