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'Over-ambitious parents' are landing their children in the WORST schools by listing too many unrealistic choices on their application forms, experts warn
The Daily Mail 9th January 2019 - The Good Schools Guide warns parents choosing primary schools to be realistic.
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'The best English education money can buy!'
The Daily Mail 23rd August 2017 Prince George will start at £20,000-per year Thomas's School in two weeks. It has been described as 'competitive, chaotic and oversubscribed by some'. But others said it 'provides the best English education money can buy'. School proved so popular parents are encouraged to register children at birth.
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A boarding school education costs £½m
The Times 5th April 2018 - The Good Schools Guide reports that attending boarding school from the age 7 to 18 could cost up to half a million pounds
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Almost one in three London children will miss out on first choice school
The Evening Standard 28th February 2017 The Good Schools Guide estimate that 30,000 children in London will not be given a place at their preferred choice of secondary school.
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Demand for school places reaches 20-year high
The Times 17th October 2018 - The Good Schools Guide reports new analysis of Government statistics showing increased applications to secondary schools
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Exam results gap between state schools and private schools is narrowing, figures show
The Daily Telegraph 26th August 2017 The performance gap between independent schools and state schools is narrowing according to the latest A level exams results.
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Russian oligarchs are deserting Britain's public schools, as the economic reality of the new Cold War starts to bite
The Sunday Telegraph 29th July 2018 - The Good Schools Guide comments on a decline in the number of Russian pupils at UK independent schools
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Schools: how to choose an international curriculum
The Financial Times 18th April 2017 For parents living abroad, trying to find an school which fits your children's needs can be difficult. Unfamiliar education systems and the curricula they come with are often a source of concern and confusion.
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South west London boroughs among lowest in capital for school preference success
South West Londoner - 22nd June 2017 Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham and Westminster have among the lowest first preference rates for applications to primary and secondary schools in the capital.
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Ten ways to cut the cost of a private school education
Financial Times 8th December 2017 Advice on scholarships, sibling discounts and how to negotiate with advice from The Good Schools Guide
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The independent schools where fee assistance goes unused
The Spectator 28th February 2018 - Susan Hamlyn of The Good Schools Guide explores the rising cost of private education and how bursary funds are left unspent
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Transgender pupils 'leaving schools over rights breaches'
BBC 20th September 2017 A growing number of families are taking their transgender children out of schools because their rights are being breached.
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