Press releases
7 March 2010
The research looked at how pupils across all sectors would have performed had the qualification been awarded in 2009, and found that, at ISC schools, 29.8% of A grades would have been an A*.
1 March 2010
Toby Mullins, SHMIS' chairman for 2010, has called on the independent sector to engage with Government.
19 January 2010
In its response to the Milburn Report on social mobility the government clearly believes that too many people in the professions were educated at independent schools. ISC believes that their analysis is based on a false premise. The government argues that "just 7% of children go to independent schools". In fact recent research by the Independent Schools Council shows that, while 7% of pupils are being educated in independent schools at any one time, around 14% of adults in the UK have received at least part of their education in independent schools. This changes the picture significantly, and they represent a significant minority.
14 January 2010
In 2009 over 4000 parents took advantage of the Independent Schools Council information & advice service (ISCias) by phone or email, over 5000 carried out individual schools searches using the ISC website to locate appropriate schools, and the Parent Zone on ISC’s website achieved some 220,000 individual page views.
13 January 2010
"The comparison of school performance via league tables is deeply flawed, in particular given the wide variety of valid qualifications currently on offer, and the differing views of their worth. Indeed, some qualifications – notably the demanding IGCSE – are not considered at all in the tables. ISC therefore calls on the Government to ensure that the worth of all relevant qualifications is fully recognised, and on the media to take these important qualifications into account. Otherwise they simply serve to misinform and mislead parents.
1 January 2010
Mrs Gillian Low, head of The Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton, is the 2010 President of the Girls’ Schools Association (GSA), taking over from Jill Berry, head of Dame Alice Harpur School in Bedford.