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Record Number of Parents Educating Children Privately in UK |
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Record numbers of parents have turned their backs on state education and chosen to pay up to 27,000 a year to send their child to a private school. Despite Labour's school reforms and increasing investment in the state sector, almost 50,000 more children now attend fee-paying schools than in 1997, a census of private schooling revealed yesterday.
Figures from the Independent Schools Council (ISC) revealed that a record 511,677 pupils in 2007 - a 0.8 per cent rise and the biggest increase since 2003 - went to a private school, despite a long-term demographic decline in the number of children and a 6.2 per cent rise in average fees.
Concerns over state school class sizes, confusion about the introduction of the Government's new vocational diplomas and fears that sciences and foreign languages are being squeezed out of state schools were factors in parents' decisions to go private, leading independent school headteachers said.
Complete story in Red Orbit:http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/1373581/record_number_of_parents_educating_children_privately/
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