The School Open Day Season is upon us!

Posted on November 13th, 2008 by Liam Butler, under Boarding Schools, ISCias, News

The try-before-you-buy aspect of schools flinging their doors open to prospective parents is great for both experienced and non-experienced parents. With the school open day season officially upon us they have cemented themselves as an essential part of the process…

Private schools and charitable status

Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Matthew Burgess, under News, Public Affairs

Since time immemorial ‘advancing education’ has been a charitable purpose and independent schools do exactly that. In recent times, some have assumed that to be charitable, relief of poverty needs to be a purpose of the charity in question. However…

In-fee-lation?

Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Hayley Dunlop, under News, School Fees - Private Schools

We discovered last month that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has risen to 3.3% – the highest it has been since records began more than 11 years ago. Using this as a guideline, it would be easy to presume…

Independent Schools and Early Years Foundation Stage

Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Rosie Keeling, under Early Years Foundation Stage - Private Schools, News

By definition independent schools have the freedom to set their own curriculum and have freedom in their choice of pupils and are not dependent on Government or Local Authority finance.

Why then are they now being told that they will…

Transforming the curriculum through the Extended Project

Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Patrick Derham - Rugby School, under News, School Curriculum - Private Schools

The law of unintended consequences is responsible for much of the world’s evil. One of those misfortunes, it could be argued, is the existence of an overly prescriptive, over-loaded curriculum. If you were sitting down to design the curriculum, where…