WILTSHIRE entrepreneur James Dyson is considering making a multi-million pound investment to help build a specialist secondary school.
The billionaire, whose company headquarters is in Malmesbury, wants to inject some of his fortune into the British education system.
He is understood to have explored funding for a technology and design secondary school in the Bath area.
It is thought the south west's richest person could be prepared to provide £2m for the project, alongside funding from the government and Bath and North East Somerset Council.
A spokeswoman for the James Dyson Foundation, the company's education arm, said the entrepreneur was in talks with a number potential partners but there were no concrete plans.
The entrepreneur's foundation contributed £25,000 to Malmesbury School, helping it gain specialist status in science and performing arts.
Mr Dyson shot to fame after inventing the cyclone vacuum cleaner.
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