Public Sector strikes today

[Bruce Wayne]

To be fair to the lefties, I would respectfully suggest that the figure of £11,000, which I presume relates to day fees only, is suspiciously low. Three terms at a run of the mill (ie not a big name school) fee-paying pre-prep (Infants) will cost you £10,000. "Name" pre-preps could be asking £15,000 for three terms.

Prep fees are higher. Senior school fees are higher again, with the most expensive in the country costing more than £20,000, and that's ignoring the boarding fees.

For the average to only be £11,000 there would need to be far more pupils in private pre-prep than there are in private senior. Something like a six or seven to one ratio. I'd treat that claim of £11,000 as the average with a fair degree of scepticism.

Swings and roundabouts though isn't it? I'm sure many state schools in London spend more than 10k per pupil.

 

[peteblue]

Cmon Pete, all governments have screwed peoples rainy day fund. How many hundreds of billions were printed to 'restart' the economy? What do you think all of that extra money does to the value of any money we each have? Governments have been doing that ever since fractional reserve banking was scrapped.

No mate. Gordon Brown well and truly screwed it up, and his additional 3G licensing scam closed the UK Telecommunications manufacturers to boot. I detest the man with a vengeance..........

 

[Brennan]

To be fair to the lefties, I would respectfully suggest that the figure of £11,000, which I presume relates to day fees only, is suspiciously low. Three terms at a run of the mill (ie not a big name school) fee-paying pre-prep (Infants) will cost you £10,000. "Name" pre-preps could be asking £15,000 for three terms.

Prep fees are higher. Senior school fees are higher again, with the most expensive in the country costing more than £20,000, and that's ignoring the boarding fees.

For the average to only be £11,000 there would need to be far more pupils in private pre-prep than there are in private senior. Something like a six or seven to one ratio. I'd treat that claim of £11,000 as the average with a fair degree of scepticism.

I went to an independent school which recently ranked as the 10th best in Wales, and the fees there are around £8500 for secondary school children per year. I don't see the £11,000 as all that hard to believe at all.

 

[Tubey]

I went to an independent school which recently ranked as the 10th best in Wales, and the fees there are around £8500 for secondary school children per year. I don't see the £11,000 as all that hard to believe at all.

Ahhh a top ten finish. Your school Neville'd it lad.

 

[brownie20]

What school was that Bren?

 

[SweetJesus849]

I know first hand from going there that St Marys is around that, or at least it probably is now. When I was there - which wasn't long ago - senior school fees were around 7-8k, whereas sixth form was an extra 2k on top of that. Merchant Taylors just up the road is higher again, but it depends on the school, what goes on in the economy, birth rates etc. etc. If you were going to a top boarding school like Sedbergh or Millfield or somewhere like that, you'd be looking at upwards of 20 thousand, easily.

 

[The Esk]

Best day schools in London charge £7500 a term, before extra-curricula activities, uniform, books, trips etc.

Boarding schools £10,000 + per term before extras

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

"10th best in Wales"

I suspect that 15th in Greater Manchester or Merseyside is probably a Higher Accolade based on number of schools & pupils.

 

[brownie20]

As there is banding in Wales and private schools are not included in banding I want to know which one he went to and who declared it 10th best

 

[Dell Boy]

Are there any stats out there for either the relative improvement a private school offers? Or how private school kids fair later in life compared to state schools?

I've got a guy that runs a company next to mine talking the backside off a donkey in the pub about how he's a labour voting state school sending kind of guy but then casually mentioned his little Rupert has been getting two hours private tutoring a week for the last 2 years to gear up for the 11+ exam in September!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Are there any stats out there for either the relative improvement a private school offers? Or how private school kids fair later in life compared to state schools?

I've got a guy that runs a company next to mine talking the backside off a donkey in the pub about how he's a labour voting state school sending kind of guy but then casually mentioned his little Rupert has been getting two hours private tutoring a week for the last 2 years to gear up for the 11+ exam in September!

Funnily enough, I think I'm right in saying that kids that are home schooled out perform both state and privately educated youngsters.

 

[roydo]

GMB hospital staff/ambulance crews out next Thursday apparently. Government wont agree to a 1% pay rise, as recommended by the Independent Pay Review body. The same body that suggested a 10% pay rise for MP's.

Not a huge fan of industrial action me, but unless I have missed something, this pay rise does not seem to be unreasonable to me.