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assessed for charitable status
have its way, private schools
reveal its agenda: to link a
charitable status. Dame Suzi Leather,
would have disappeared in the last chair of The Charity Commission who
school’s charitable status with
decade but instead, the number of went to St Mary’s Calne and sent one
children going to private schools has
the amount of means-tested
of her own children to a fee-paying
increased under the last government
financial support to pupils.
school, has made it clear that she doesn’t
to slightly more than seven per cent.
DAVID LYSCOM,
think that schools such as her Alma
Tony Blair may have said he would
Independent Schools
Mater are doing enough to justify their
Council (ISC)
make education his highest priority when public benefit.
he first arrived at Downing Street, but many All the parties are adamant that education will
in the educational establishment now wish that they had be their top priority at the next General Election. But what
been left alone. State education has been pushed and pulled does each party actually believe in?
to breaking point, few now know where the Government The Tory leader says he is determined to carry out
stands on special needs and streaming or testing and radical changes in education. Mr Gove is Mr Cameron’s
teaching, even packed lunches. Most teachers certainly favourite prefect and has been allowed free rein. He has
couldn’t pass a GCSE in current education policy, two ideas: Expanding academies and creating new schools.
“We believe
despite filling out endless forms each week. Ruth Both aim to free headteachers from the bureaucratic and
that SATs and league
Kelly, the former Education Secretary, had financial domination of local authorities. David Ross, the
tables are deeply flawed and
to send her son to an independent school Carphone Warehouse co-founder who sponsors an academy
unhelpful. T_he benefits of them are
when she couldn’t find a state school to in Grimsby, has been a key player. He wants the Tories to
help her son with his dyslexia. One in allow private schools to sponsor more academies in return
greatly outweighed by their demerits.
five children still leave school unable for retaining their charitable status. So there could be a
We are developing our own national
to read and write properly. The series of mini-Etons, Harrows and St Pauls’. In addition,
standardised tests, which will be made
gulf between state and private has Mr Gove has borrowed an idea from Sweden to allow
available online. T_hey will supply valid,
widened to such an extent that league charities, parents, philanthropists and livery groups to set
reliable and credible data on the tables have had to be massaged, exams up schools where they can see a demand as long as it is not
progress and achievement of manipulated and universities forced to for profit. He wants to amend the planning system to make
children aged 11 and 13.”
change their entrance requirements to it easier to find suitably priced land and prevent councils
DAVID HANSON, Independent
aid more state school pupils. blocking new schools.
Association of Prep Private schools have been asked to The shadow schools secretary, who took Scottish Highers,
Schools (IAPS)
justify, in ever more demanding ways, their also wants to simplify the exam structure, scrap SATS at 11
“David Ross, the Carphone Warehouse co-founder who sponsors an academy
in Grimsby, has been a key player. He wants the Tories to allow private schools
to sponsor more academies in return for retaining their charitable status”
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