The government will nationalise recession-hit private schools by turning them into state-funded academies, ministers have confirmed. Headteachers predict that some struggling fee-charging schools will seek to join the scheme to stave off closure, as more parents desert the private sector. There are warnings, too, that thousands of pupils may seek places at already-stretched state schools this Sept...

The Guardian reports that the government will 'nationalise' private schools - bail them out in other words.  Can this really be our educational priority? I remembered another story from the Guardian this year: If there are underfunded state schools; if we are failing children from socially-deprived backgrounds; if we have used the argument of priorities and lack of available funds t...

Yah, y’know, it’s all about class innit? Private schools perpetuate privilege and thus we should….well, what? How about sorting out the State schools so that those with any aspiration for their children don’t flee them? How about even demolishing the distinction? Get the State out of the provision of education and leave it to simply finance it? Then

PRIVATE schools are being forced to pay thousands of pounds to access key information about the national curriculum that is free to state schools.

People who would have sent their children to private schools are now not bothering, apparently. But so few children go to private schools anyway that it is difficult to see why this should pose any sort of problem to the state sector, which has been wrestling with the problem of falling rolls, leading to amalgamations and what have you, for years. And nobody ever asks whether private schools are r...

Is the public benefit of private schools currently being investigated by the Charities Commission the £200m of extra funding needed to overcome the shortage of spaces as parents abandon school fees!?! If only private schools were being abandoned as parents found the same quality of education in the state sector....

State schools will not be allowed to teach a range of qualifications that are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to GCSEs at private schools

Sir Simon Milton, the Conservative head of the Local Government Association, has outflanked even his own party's education policy by suggesting that private companies should be permitted to run profit-making state schools. Not even Michael Gove, whose robustly radical thinking on schools has attracted much praise, dares to go as far as this, even though profit-making is accepted in the independen...

Another suprising policy being announced by Gordon Brown’s government. From the Guardian: The government will nationalise recession-hit private schools by turning them into state-funded academies, ministers have confirmed. Headteachers predict that some struggling fee-charging schools will seek to join the scheme to stave off closure, as more parents desert the private sector. There are warn...

Matt Willey, Shadow Schools Minister Michael Gove's opponent, has criticised his policy of setting up "free schools" alongside state schools in Surrey. "We have an example in Camberley of what happens when private organisations are not able to achieve satisfactory standards in the schools they take over," says Mr Willey. "Management of France Hill was given to 3 Es CTC in order to improve the...