Academic and other partnership activities between independent and state schools are flourishing—and expanding—in many parts of the country.
In September the government published a consultation document in which it asked the independent sector to make an even larger contribution to the progress of the education system as a whole.
The Independent Schools Council submitted proposals on December 9. They included an ambitious scheme to provide thousands of free places in independent schools funded jointly with the government.
The plan will need careful consideration.
First reactions to it in parliament –not all of them of course favourable—emerged as a result of an oral question which Alistair Lexde, a former General Secretary of the Independent Schools Council, asked in the Lords on December 14. Follow the link to read the exchanges that took place…. theyworkforyou