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A multi-millionaire former Coventry businessman who struggled at school is to plough much of his fortune into controversial plans to help bail out the education system.
Mr Wynford Dore, aged 49, who now lives on Jersey, has become director of business affairs for the Education Partnership - a company he helped set up with other business associates.
The partnership will target opportunities opened up by Education Secretary Mr David Blunkett's decision to allow private investors to take over floundering schools - and even entire education authorities.
It has already declared an interest in Arnold Lodge School, in Leamington, Warwickshire, and Kings Manor, a comprehensive, in Surrey.
Mr Dore, a scholarship boy who attended King Henry VIII School, in Coventry, said despite his obvious business acumen he had performed very...