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?
Shurely ‘in the private shector’? – Ed.
Tim adds: Quite.
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.