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 [...]
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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
30 October 2008
The best kept British school secret…
Over the next few days, I’m going to share with you a few affordable school gems if your current school has become unaffordable. Note that I am not defining “affordable”. We each have our own snack brackets. Some of you have kids at the likes of Eton or Benenden which you can’t afford as we [...]
Filed under Boarding schools, Credit crunch, Fee-paying schools, Grammar schools, Hockerill Anglo-European College, Independent schools, Old Swinford Hospital School, Oxbridge admissions, Private schools, Public schools, Russell Group, Schools, Sevenoaks, State boarding schools, State schools, Summer Fields, University, benenden, cranbrook school, eton, harrow, sunningdale
Tags: benenden, boarding school, cranbrook school, Credit crunch, eton, harrow, hockerill, ib, international baccalaureate, kcw, king's college wimbledon, Old Swinford Hospital School, oxbridge, Russell Group, Sevenoaks, stabis, State boarding schools, Summer Fields, sunningdale
