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Labour votes to abolish private schools 4 Years, 7 Months ago

Labour pledges to abolish private schools after vote at conference

Labour members call to 'redistribute' private schools' assets

I suppose this isn't a surprise, given that Jeremy Corbyn wanted his own son to attend a failing comprehensive rather than a selective grammar - despite having attended an independent prep school and then a grammar school himself.

(1999) MP and wife split over school

FT: "A future Labour government would seek to implement the policy by initially ensuring that the proportion of students admitted to universities from private schools did not exceed their share of the overall school population, which currently stands at 7 per cent."

Wonder how that would work with universities like Oxford and Cambridge.

Oxbridge 'over-recruits from eight schools'

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Bookworm

Re:Labour votes to abolish private schools 4 Years, 7 Months ago
That's approx 600,000 placements. Where will they all go? Tories are only building 30 free schools on a national level. Can you see them utilising the schools or selling them off? Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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Randall

Re:Labour votes to abolish private schools 4 Years, 7 Months ago
It's a bit like the dissolution of the monasteries... Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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honey!oh sugar sugar.

Re:Labour votes to abolish private schools 4 Years, 6 Months ago
I take it that Labour have no intention of winning an election then? Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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