Private schools welcomed an assurance they said they had received from the government that universities will not in future be encouraged to discriminate between the applications of candidates from private or state schools.
Source: Press release 9.12.02, Independent Schools Council information service (020 7798 1500)
Links: Press release
Date: 2002-Dec
A paper by two headteachers argued that charitable status for private schools should be dependent on their maintaining an ongoing partnership with state schools.
Source: Antony Edkins and Anthony Seldon, Partnership not Paternalism: A personal vision of the future of independent/state school partnerships, Institute for Public Policy Research (020 7470 6100)
Links: Report (pdf) | Press release
See also: Journal of Social Policy Volume 31/4, Digest 124, paragraph 3.1
Date: 2002-Oct
Research found there is little difference in exam pass rates between middle-class pupils at state schools and those at private schools.
Source: Lindsay Paterson, Attainment in Public-sector and Independent Schools in Scotland, 1994, by Social Class and Parental Education: Some results for discussion, Institute of Governance/University of Edinburgh (0131 650 2456)
Links: Report
See also: Journal of Social Policy Volume 31/4, Digest 124, paragraph 3.1
Date: 2002-Oct
Private schools would have to show they benefit the public in order to keep their charitable status, under proposals in an official report.
Source: Private Action, Public Benefit: A Review of Charities and the Wider Not-For-Profit Sector, Strategy Unit/Cabinet Office (020 7276 1881)
Links: Report | Report (pdf) | Summary
See also: Journal of Social Policy Volume 31/4, Digest 124, paragraph 9.3
Date: 2002-Sep
