The decline in inspection outcomes for non-association, non-special independent schools during the academic year 2016/17 ‘has been quite stark’,...
Read moreAn ‘unspoken selling point’ of the proposed low-cost private school, the Independent Grammar School: Durham (IGSD) ‘is the cachet of attending a...
Read moreAt last, the Department for Education (DfE) has published its response to the consultation on Schools that Work for Everyone . It’s conveniently...
Read moreFive challenges face English schools, Robert Halfon, Conservative chair of the Education Select Committee, said yesterday.
He was speaking...
Read moreSelective schools have long been associated with higher achievement in exams at 16. This achievement plays a major part in marketing for ‘top’...
Read moreThe opening of a ‘no-frills’ private school in Durham has been delayed, Schools Week reports. Pre-inspection of the Independent Grammar School (...
Read moreA cross-party committee of MPs isn’t convinced the Department for International Development (DFID) acted correctly when it provided grant funding...
Read more'When I was a teenager, kids set fire to the Bristol comprehensive* I attended, razing it to the ground. It felt likely they were giving their...
Read moreThe last Labour manifesto said a Labour government would impose VAT on independent school fees, T he Times wrote on 16 September (behind paywall...
Read moreYou, too, can earn millions if you’re a teacher. That’s the message from Mark Steed, director of Dubai-based Jumeirah English Speaking School (...
Read moreYesterday I used the Department for Education schools database, Edubase, to check details of some academies which had changed hands.
Today...
Read more‘ Britain’s first cut-price private school to charge just £52 a week’ .
The Sun , 22 February 2017
The paper outlines a proposal...
Read moreThe Department for Education (DfE) was forced to issue a ‘ clarification to the consultation document ’ on proposals in ‘Schools that Work for...
Read moreNon-association private schools, those fee-paying schools not associated to groups affiliated to the Independent Schools Council ( ISC ), are less...
Read more‘How to win the argument against grammar schools’. Sam Freedman, former advisor to Michael Gove, gave an impassioned response at the ResearchEd...
Read moreFor one month only, 16 August to 16 September 2016, there are five copies of our book, The Truth about Our Schools: Exposing the Myths Exploring...
Read moreThe number of pupils at schools affiliated to the Independent Schools Council ( ISC ) has risen, says the ISC. Pupil numbers in 1,249 schools...
Read moreTwo months ago the media was full of research by Durham University which suggested attending a private school equalled two years extra education...
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