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The Times: Forget mutinous Tories — it’s parents Boris Johnson fears
The Times: Forget mutinous Tories — it’s parents Boris Johnson fears

My daughter is back at school and touch wood, there haven’t been any cases of Covid at her school yet. They have cameras in each of the classrooms, so girls in quarantine at home, can join in lessons. However several independent and state schools in London have put entire year groups or individual classes into quarantine, several days after starting back. We have friends with daughters currently confined to home school as a result.

Whatever happens at Westminster, the prime minister knows closing schools again would be political suicide.

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Education, Family, Media ArticleSarah NorrisLando EducationBoris Johnson, Tories, schools, Lando, Lando Education, Labour, edcuation, Spectator, Downing Street, Covid19, pandemic, focus groups, parentsComment
The Times: University cap on private schools ‘will drive brightest pupils abroad’
The Times: University cap on private schools ‘will drive brightest pupils abroad’

Capping the number of private school pupils going to university would lead to a brain drain in which bright students would go abroad to study, a leading head teacher has warned.

It could leave universities, which mostly select on academic ability, struggling to fill courses, the annual Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC) of 300 leading private schools was told.

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Higher Education, Media ArticleSarah NorrisLando EducationThe Times, private school, independent schools, university, Labour, headmasters' & headmistress' conference, overseasComment
BBC - Could Labour really ban private schools?
BBC - Could Labour really ban private schools?

Could Labour really abolish private schools? That's the big question after the party's conference voted to "integrate" private schools into the state sector.

The plan would see the assets of private schools "redistributed".

Universities would have a quota imposed of admitting no more than 7% of their students from private schools, so their numbers were in keeping with their proportion in the overall school population.

And private schools would lose their charitable status and tax exemptions.

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Education, Higher Education, Media ArticleSarah NorrisLando EducationLabour, independent schools, state schools, policy, public ownershipComment