The college opened in Oldham in 2014 but will close in summer 2017. Credit: Google Maps
A technical college which cost £9 million will close at the end of the academic year after all its GCSE students failed maths and English in 2016.
Greater Manchester University Technical College will close because it failed to recruit enough pupils. It is the seventh university technical college (UTC) to announce its closure, according to the Schools Week website.
The college will close at the end of the academic year after no students achieved grade C or above in English and Maths GCSEs in 2016.
The college opened in Oldham in 2014. On Tuesday it said a shortage of students meant it was not financially viable.
Michael Gove, the former education secretary, championed UTCs as a way to teach 14 to 19-year-olds technical and practical skills.
Oldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon told Manchester Evening News the UTC represented a "failed experiment".
A spokesman for the Department for Education said it has agreed to the closure of the college due to low pupil numbers and the trust's unviable financial position.
