Some stats on private schools £300,000, 000 go to bursaries

[Blandmum]

Interestingly there is an article in this weeks Times Ed on private schools.

At present 7% of all children in the UK attend independent schools

A mori poll showed that 50% of parenst would send their children to private schools if they could.

Current cost is running at £130,000 (from age 5 to 18) Estimated costs for a child born this year are £350,000

Independent schools have an average pupil to teacher ratio of 9:1

in 2004 £300, 000, 000 were awarded as burseries by independent schools (so not spent of golf courses then ) One in three children in an independent have some form of finacial assistance. There are almost as many children getting assisted places as in the peak of the Assisted Places Scheme, but levels of support are lower.

It is estimated that if independent schools were closed it would cost the goverment an extra £2 billion to educate those children in the state sector

(all info from this weeks Times Educational Suppliment)

Dino, the 300k is money that independent schools offer to help parents pay fees. Similar to assisted places scheme.

City Academies are crap and wrong. Mr Allied Carpets is a millionaire, so if he puts tuppence towards funding a school (not building it even), certainly not funding it, he gets to choose who goes. It's mad. Religious lunatics are taking over schools as academies and promoting creationism.
Plus the horrifying growth of sectarian schools - none of which will want my kids - means less and less real choice and opportunity within the state system.

Gosh, only 7% attend independent schools? Thought is was 9% (I know, not a big difference) Shows how unrepresentative, again, mn seems from rl though.