If schools raise fees, parents may choose to send their children to state schools instead.
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There is no evidence that either academies or local schools produce better results with equivalent pupils.
As the start of the school year looms, school uniform prices will be front-of-mind for many families already facing a cost of living crisis. What can be done to reduce the burden?
The tax exemptions enjoyed by the UK’s charitable private schools are estimated to equate to 6% of England’s annual state school budget
There’s no evidence that private schools produce better results than state schools for equivalent pupils.
Over the past few decades secondary schools have become larger and fewer in number. For parents, this had made choices at once more limited, but also more complicated.
Integrating private schools into the state system will offer little benefit to socially disadvantaged pupils. Addressing the inequalities between state schools should be the focus.
Public schools are spaces in which equality can either be supported or weakened.
Theresa May might believe ‘poorer children do better’ at grammar schools, but she still has a lot to learn about how social inequality impacts education.
The dumping of Gonski education funding model will inevitably increase social inequality – funding for public schools will reduce while support for private schools increase.
I am embarking on the enrolment process for my daughter at the moment and I have chosen the local state school. It runs at an average on the My School website, below average on like schools, and it has had a long reputation for being rough. So why have I chosen it?
Many people think that the admissions process should take into account the type of school students attended.
Feeding yet more choice and competition into a system that has such distorted forms of both can only compound our problems.
Recent survey data revealed that twice as many parents of public school students reported their children had been bullied compared to private school parents.
New research has concluded Catholic and Independent schools do add value to students’ tertiary scores.
The quality of a public school is in location, location, location.
A number of studies in recent years have shown there is no academic advantage to private schools, so parents weighing up which school to send their child to need to look at the evidence.
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