ISC Daily News Summary

Daily Telegraph
On the front page of the Telegraph on Saturday, Vicky Tuck, Principal of The Cheltenham Ladies College, warned that private schools risk being turned into the preserve of the "very rich and the very poor" under new rules. In her regular Telegraph column which sparked the news article, Mrs Tuck said private schools were being turned into a "scapegoat" for the lack of social mobility in modern Britain.
Independent schools 'becoming more exclusive' (Daily Telegraph)
Private schools 'turned into scapegoats' (Daily Telegraph)

Guardian
Despite a recession and the government's new 'public benefit' standard, the Cognita group of private schools is thriving. The Guardian investigates. Anthony Seldon is mentioned.
A lesson in private education | Jonn Elledge | Comment is free (Guardian)

Times
Letters to the Times on social mobility, including a letter from Patrick Derham, Head Master at Rugby School.
Education and class (Times)

Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times
The Telegraph on Saturday featured an item on planning for school fees should schools lose their charitable status. ISC Chief Executive David Lyscom is quoted. The Sunday Times included a similar item, looking at how parents can plan for school fees. Neither feature appears online.
Planning for school fees (Daily Telegraph not online)
Five ways to save for your children’s school fees (Sunday Times not online)

Sunday Times
State schools could be run by private companies for a profit under plans being considered by the Conservatives. The Tories had said that only charities and non-profit-making bodies would be allowed to create new “free schools” supported by the taxpayer. However, the party is considering a big change to its flagship policy for improving primary and secondary education.
State schools could be run for profit (Sunday Times)

Daily Mail
Schools will be able to return to the O-level under Conservative plans to boost exam standards. They would be given the freedom to offer O-level courses which are still studied around the world despite being axed in Britain 21 years ago.  Schools will be able to return to the O-level under Conservative plans to boost exam standards.
Tories: We will bring back the O-level to boost exam standards (Daily Mail)

Guardian
The government has offered £250 a year to bright students from the poorest homes in an effort to improve social mobility.
Low-income pupils to get 'Billy Elliot' cash bonus (Guardian)

Tired of closing British factories because of a lack of qualified workers, Andrew Hall, a former industrialist, became head of the Government's national curriculum watchdog a week ago. In his first interview since then, he says he wants to make education more business friendly and address the skills shortage of young British workers.
Curriculum (Independent)

The Daily Telegraph spares a thought for hard-working examiners.
Exam-marking: making their mark (Daily Telegraph)

Sunday Telegraph
Article on diplomas in the Sunday Telegraph.
Revealed: the zero-marks diploma loophole (Sunday Telegraph)

Daily Telegraph
Top universities will snub Government plans to provide extra places for 10,000 students this year amid a looming admissions crisis, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
Crisis looms as top universities reject extra students (Daily Telegraph)

Independent
It's not just authors affected by the new child database. Chris Green meets the entertainers forced to sign up.
Tears of a clown who will have to pay to entertain children (Independent)

Times, Observer
Education and class (Times)
End the inequity of private schools (Observer)

And a comment in the Times
It’s not pushy parents we need, it’s pushy schools | Minette Marrin (Times)

Daily Telegraph
Almost half of all householders may be paying too much for gas and electricity because they cannot understand energy bills, according to research by uSwitch, the comparison website.
Energy bills 'too complicated to understand' (Daily Telegraph)