Private schools want to join state sector but stay selective – The Independent
Some of the country’s best-known independent grammar schools are ready to join the state sector – provided that they can continue to select their pupils. Graham Brady, a Conservative MP who has...
View ArticleRace to open first new grammar school in 50 years – Telegraph
Two local authorities are competing to be the first to use a “back door” route to get around a legal ban on the creation of entirely new selective schools. Croydon, in south London, which currently has...
View ArticleFor the public good – Telegraph
One of the last government’s more pernicious pieces of legislation was the Charities Act 2006, a measure that enshrined in law Labour’s long-standing hostility towards private education. It required...
View ArticleTerence Blacker: A swim in a private school’s pool won’t upset our...
It has been a positive week for British education – or at least for the 7 per cent of British education which now seems to speak for the rest. The Charity Commission, following a legal challenge by the...
View ArticleBritain’s private schools ‘have lost their moral purpose’| Education | The...
Anthony Seldon, the leading headteacher tasked by the prime minister with encouraging independent schools to sponsor state academies, has expressed his frustration at the lack of enthusiasm among his...
View ArticlePublic schools can’t go on in splendid isolation | Anthony Seldon | Comment...
Sorry, Catherine Bennett, but you were wrong to be so dismissive on these pages last week of “public school heads lecturing others”. British public life would be unthinkable without the contributions...
View ArticlePearson to fund ‘$3 a month’ private schools – Business News – The Independent
The education giant Pearson will today launch a $15m (£10m) fund that will invest in low-cost private schools in Africa and Asia, offering lessons for as little as $3 a month per pupil. Tony Blair’s...
View ArticleSchoolboy, 14, took overdose of tablets ‘after he was abused by master at top...
A young boy took an overdose of tablets after he was allegedly abused by his teacher at a top public school, his mother told a jury today. The boy only told his parents what had happened after details...
View ArticleUniversities are becoming finishing schools for gilded youth | Education |...
An unholy alliance is forming between our “top” universities, the self-selected elite of the Russell Group, and our “top” schools, the equally self-selected elite of leading independent schools plus a...
View ArticleFelsted school fire: Firefighters battle huge blaze at £25k-a-year prep...
A huge blaze has gutted one of the boarding houses at an exclusive public school. Despite years of planning from the fire service to prevent damage, the aging building at the £25k-a-year Felsted...
View ArticleCo-op schools: Is the future of education co-operation? | Social enterprise...
Harold Wilson would surely have approved. The Labour prime minister’s old grammar school in Huddersfield is now one the country’s leading co-op schools and a passionate supporter of the spectacular...
View ArticleWhy I choose state education over private school | Education | The Guardian
Last week in Education Guardian Janet Murray wrote about why she sent her child to a private school. Within a few hours, 500 comments had been posted online, a number of them congratulating the...
View ArticlePrivate schools ‘dominate’ sports – PA News Feeds – Evening Standard
The battle for Olympic medals is being won too often on the playing fields of Britain’s private schools – an issue that is “one of the worst statistics in British sport”, according to the country’s...
View ArticleWhy are so many of Britain’s Olympic athletes privately educated? – Telegraph
The man he replaced as the country’s greatest medal winner, Sir Steve Redgrave, was also state-educated although Great Marlow School does have its boat club as well as the advantage of being right next...
View ArticleTeam GB chief: Coalition must increase funding for school sports – Telegraph
Lord Moynihan challenged the Coalition to increase funding for school sports and better facilities to encourage more children to get involved. Sports bodies fear that funding for sports facilities...
View ArticleSir Jonathan Miller ‘ashamed’ to be helping pay private school fees – Telegraph
Sir Jonathan, a renowned socialist, said he was angered at “belonging to a society which makes such as sharp distinction” between rich and poor. He insisted there was “something deeply malignant about...
View ArticleEnnis, Farah, Murray: here ends the state school myth | The Guardian
Last Thursday, the venerable Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter to issue his early verdict on the Olympics. The influence of his Chinese wife was perhaps evident, as was his education at the fee-paying...
View ArticleOur Games success can help rescue school sport says Olympics chief as he...
School sport needs a ‘step change’ if children are to follow the stars of London 2012, Britain’s Olympics chief said yesterday. Hours after Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford won gold, Lord...
View ArticleAn Olympic education: schools producing Team GB Olympians – Telegraph
Following Team GB chief Lord Moynihan’s comments that Britain’s Olympic team is dominated by privately-educated athletes, the Sunday Telegraph has undertaken research into the schooling backgrounds of...
View ArticleThe UK private school that produced seven Olympians | Education | guardian.co.uk
Britain’s Olympic stars are drawn from diverse backgrounds and plenty of Team GB’s medal-winners have been inspired by teachers at state schools. But amid the medal haul one private school stands out...
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