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Top 1000 schools
Despite the gymnastics of politicians, the same old rules apply; with few exceptions getting good results costs money. Beyond independent and paid for status, if you want to find academic success then you will almost always have to look to selective schools. - -
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Private sector still top of the ladder
A “high-wire act” was how Tony Blair, the prime minister, recently described his attempts to force through reforms to the education system of England and Wales in the face of furious opposition from his own MPs.
Allegations of bias: Are university admissions fair?
It has all the ingredients of a huge family disappointment: the bright child, sent to the best school the parents or grandparents could afford, achieves top marks in exams after excellent teaching and fulsome encouragement, yet fails to win a place at the first choice university.
Higher education: Where A-levels can take you
Amid the brouhaha generated by the A-level results every summer and the claims and counter-claims about whether standards have fallen, one fact is clear.
International baccalaureate: Wider choice in the sixth form
After more than 50 years in service the once mighty A-level is not looking its best.
Private schools: Not merely a question of status
Last autumn’s meeting of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, the body that represents some of the country’s most prestigious private schools, heard a most unlikely rallying cry: the private sector was desperate to be considered part of the state education system.
Public versus private: Learn the rules of the education game
To pay or not to pay? That is the real question. It is one that many parents find more problematic than any of Hamlet’s musings.
