Posts Tagged as ‘charities commission’

30 May 2009

A truly British McEducation

I was recently surveying the latest rubrics in The Times’ appointments section and noted two public schools seeking what are effectively business development directors for their schools’ international expansion.  I guess I hadn’t realised that what had started as a trickle of ad hoc satellite schools in Thailand and China was quickly becoming a deluge [...]

20 December 2008

The public benefit that will cut out the middle classes

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 [...]

2 December 2008

Eton for less

Ever on the lookout for a good deal, I thought I’d bring yet another one to your collective attention. My main concern has hitherto always been the affordability of independent education for the middle classes with children who don’t quite make it over the scholarship hurdle because, let’s face it, most kids aren’t going to [...]