The preferred routes to a better Britain include for-profit schools, chains of schools working together, new local taxes for councils, a radical devolution of responsibilities to councils and much else upon which space does not allow me to expand.
"Going forward, the DfE should be less defensive and more open about its implementation of the academies programme, producing a range of clearer and deeper information about the performance of academy schools, chains and sponsors".
Former investment bankers with MBA's are actually permitted to start schools, chains of them, based on little niches and boutique-style experiments with low-income students as test-subjects.
Cognita, the biggest commercial-schools chain, already owns 45 schools in Britain and says its plans to grow by a dozen a year remain unchanged.
Haileybury school has set up in Almaty, in Kazakhstan.The Dubai-based GEMS school chain, meanwhile, has cheekily reversed the trend.
In California, a few schools are actually grading kids on grit; the practice is widespread in the trendsetting charter-school chain KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program).
Lindsay, a biology graduate from Brandon, near Coventry, had arrived in Japan in October 2006 to teach English for a language school chain.
Instead, Marc Sternberg, a deputy superintendent, had decided to award that space to KIPP, the biggest, richest charter school chain in the country.
Anders Hultin, head of profit-making school company in Sweden; former head of Gems school chain in the UK I think allowing profit-making companies to run schools is one important key to the development of the UK education system.
Besides the seven Success schools she has in public space, she is approved to open two more in September and says her goal is to create a 40-school chain.
There is the World Class Learning Academy, the British school chain outpost that could not call itself the British School because that is too similar to the name of another new commercial school called the British International School.
