How to Choose an Independent Senior School
Nigel Williams helps you narrow down your independent senior school options
The choices on offer to parents looking for excellent schooling and education for their child appear to be greater than ever. In our national education system there is a cornucopia of choice that, while increasing the options for the education of your child, can also complicate the whole decision-making process.
It is therefore vital that you look beyond academic league tables and consider what you and your children want from their whole educational experience. Personal statements play an increasing role in the university selection process and having great academic results, whilst important, is not the only selection criteria. Universities are increasingly interested in the experiences of the individual alongside academic performance. Pupils at Leighton Park School in Berkshire
In the state sector there seems to be a much improved offering, but it is worth considering that, while the divergence of opportunities offered in the grammar, comprehensive, academies and free schools is considerable, all are increasingly influenced by an over-mighty OFSTED organisation, which appears to value conformity over diversity and compliance over quality. There are many excellent state schools achieving both a high level of academic education and a wide programme of activities for the students but all are subject to the whims of the government, and more particularly those to whom the government chooses to hand...
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