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James Stanfield

21 August 2012

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Consider the following from an editorial in a national newspaper: ‘Educating children should not be for profit - learning has always been separate from the forces of the free market. And that...

Opponents of school choice are misinterpreting the data

Gabriel H. Sahlgren

20 June 2012

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In a recent column in the Guardian, Kevin Courtney lambasts the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, for ‘fly[ing] a kite for free schools to be allowed to make a profit...

The case for bona fide profit-making schools

Gabriel H. Sahlgren

24 February 2012

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Yesterday, in a panel discussion at Policy Exchange – coinciding with their release of a report advocating ‘social enterprise’ schools, which would be forced to reinvest 50% of...

The UN and the profit motive in education

James Stanfield

14 November 2011

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In 2003 the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) set up the Commission on the Private Sector and Development which was tasked with examining how the private sector and entrepreneurship can...

Private school model 'improves equity'

James Croft

26 September 2011

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In yet another setback to the implementation of the British Conservatives party's free school policy, the leader of their Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg,...

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