Posts Tagged private schools
Punish ambition and reward failure ? There is an alternative
Posted by Nick Cowen in Education, Tax and Spend on 04/01/2011
Years since he first proposed the idea, Sunder Katwala, General Secretary of the Fabian Sociey, still has the same solution to Britain’s educational woes: big government should pick up its clunking fists and pummel the most successful independent school system in the world, preferably with a VAT on fees. This, somehow, will atone for all the sins of educational failure in the state sector. It was a bad idea then; it is a bad idea now.
State control means state schools struggle to shine
Posted by Nick Cowen in Education on 28/11/2007
The number of privately educated pupils being accepted into the UK’s top 20 universities is gaining over state educated pupils, despite government policy to encourage universities to widen their intake. The BBC’s somewhat aggressive headline ‘Private pupils grab top courses’ makes it sound almost like their achievement is more down to their superior grappling technique, perhaps practiced during the push and shove of the tuck shop queue!