Bottom line is, if something is happening, it's only senior management that know about it.
Anything that school says is obviously unofficial and probably is a while off yet. It does sound like very much though if your rumour is true about just two schools, that FPP will be potentially returning in a different form to before.
Currently the bean counters are at work at BA cutting just about everything, so I'd not be too hopeful for any grand sponsorship scheme. I'd love to be wrong though!