That is, I believe, what we were promised a decade ago, isn’t it? So the first lines of two stories in The Telegraph today:
Private schools could lose their multi-million pound tax-breaks unless they help state-educated pupils get into universities such as Oxford and Cambridge, it was disclosed yesterday.
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The number of failing schools has soared by almost a fifth this year, new figures showed yesterday.
None of those failing schools, as far as I can see, are in the private sector.
So, is it joined up thinking to remove subsidy friom what works and to spend more on what does not?
2 responses so far ↓
1 Chris // Sep 29, 2007 at 9:27 am
Shurely ‘in the private shector’? - Ed.
Tim adds: Quite.
2 pedant2007 // Sep 30, 2007 at 2:43 am
Not really sure you should call it a “subsidy”, though. What seems more striking to me is the suggestion that “advanced maths tuition” can’t be provided in (some) state schools.
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