So why wouldn't the independent sector want to educate them?

Academic results are higher than average, even for the independent sector.

This means state schools receive over 2.4bn pounds per year from parents whose children are educated in the independent sector.

Local authorities will be expected to make maximum use of the independent sector.

No such option is available to the more fragile independent sector.

He then worked for a spell in the independent sector.

A third priority raised is contracting with the independent sector.

If they had a real freedom of choice, as happens in the independent sector, then state schools would start to improve or close.

But I believe it is her views, on the place of the independent sector in our national education system, that derive from the last century.

Teachers in the independent sector have long been used to doing this.