Posts Tagged ‘Privatisation of schools’
Education
Tue 3 Jul
To profit or not
Last month I was invited to speak at a conference of housing professionals on the subject “To Profit or Not To Profit”. The government is now trying to entice private sector providers into the social housing sector and I was asked to give a perspective on this issue from the education sector’s point of view. […]
Education
Wed 30 Mar
How to avoid the predictable failures of free schools – give the local authority a role
An interesting little booklet has just been published. Called ‘The Six Predictable Failures of Free Schools and how to avoid them’. It is written by teacher Laura McInerney, who occasionally comments on this site, and published by LKMco, a consultancy run by McInerney and fellow teacher Loic Menzies. It injects a note of realism into […]