Two weeks ago, I got into a heated argument at the Balham Bowling Club, a trendy little bar in Balham. A barroom brawl, you ask? Or a case of twenty something IT or PR girls cat fighting for the local twenty something hunk? Not quite. The occasion was a friend’s 40th birthday party and the [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Affordable Education’
20 December 2008
The public benefit that will cut out the middle classes
Filed under Affordable Education, Charities, Charities Act 2006, Christ's Hospital, Christ's Hospital School, Dulwich Estate, Education-related companies, Fee-paying schools, Independent Schools Council, Independent schools, Individual schools, Means-tested bursaries, New Model School Company, Private schools, Public benefit requirement, Public schools, Whitgift Foundation, Winchester, charitable status; schools, eton, private school
Tags: Affordable Education, affordable school fees, Balham Bowling Club, bursaries, Charities Act 2006, charities commission, Christ's Hospital, Dulwich Estate, eton, guidance, Independent Schools Council, Public benefit requirement, Whitgift Foundation, Winchester
28 November 2008
An affordable private school alternative in London: the New Model School
Looking at the keywords people are using to hit my blog, I see that affordable education is at the fore of most of their minds. Not surprising given the number of parents who have taken their children out of independent schools already in response to the credit crunch and the anticipated exodus from those schools [...]
Filed under Affordable Education, Civitas, Cognita, Credit crunch, Education-related companies, Faraday School, Fee-paying schools, GEMS, Independent schools, Maple Walk School, Means-tested bursaries, New Model School Company, People, Private schools, Sarah Knollys, no frills school, no frills schools
Tags: Affordable Education, affordable school, Brent, chronological history, Civitas, Cognita, Credit crunch, Docklands, East London, Faraday School, GEMS, Maple Walk School, New Model School Company, North Greenwich, phonics, Roundwood Park, Sarah Knollys, school fees, Trinity Buoy Wharf, tuition fees
29 October 2008
Credit crunch: When they can’t afford the school fees any longer
The credit crunch has begun to hit my middle class circle recently in a very personal way. When the last bubble burst (dot com, circa 2000), I was younger. No kids. No mortgage. Very few real responsibilities. Most of my friends at the time were similarly situated. It was a blip for us. We moved [...]
Filed under Credit crunch, Fee-paying schools, Independent schools, Private schools, Public schools, State schools
Tags: Affordable Education, Credit crunch effects, credit crunch; fee-paying; independent school; fee-paying school; private sector; state school; public school;, education, fees, registrar, Schools
