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Boarding Schools' Association: The state of state boarding

Monday, 02, Jun 2008 12:00

Boarding schools are not all independent: there are 35 state boarding schools in the country, with almost 4000 boarders between them. And numbers of boarders are rising – up 3% on last year.

At state boarding schools, parents pay for boarding, but the state pays for education. This makes the state boarding schools excellent value for money.

A crucial point is that education in these schools is likely to be extremely good, a far cry from the state schools which were slated in Saturday’s Guardian by Chris Parry, the new CEO of the Independent Schools’ Council.

The Guardian admits that some of its quotations from Chris Parry were taken from a wide-ranging interview, so who knows quite what the context of the comments was. But there is no doubt that there are many excellent state schools in Britain today, and the state boarding schools are likely to be among them.

H. Moriarty

National Director

Boarding Schools’ Association and State Boarding Schools’ Association

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