Roedean School, Brighton
I am working on a post about secondary school diversity (upcoming pretty map alert!) which is making for rather depressing going, so it was good to see two slightly happier pieces of news for the education sector.
Firstly, from today’s Evening Standard we learn that:
Rodean [sic!] [Now corrected by Standard] Roedean head slams Brown for ‘hostility’ to fee-paying
Not that I’d noticed. After all, no-one can accuse Brown of following the Kinnock line that under a Labour government people who wanted to buy an education would be welcome to do so, as long as it was overseas. But no, apparently Brown’s government is pursuing a dangerous socialist plan to destroy private education:
Mrs King [head of Roedean] said: “I sense that he [Gordon Brown] has got a very clear political agenda within which independent schools do not really feature … He is coming (more…)
