Nursery World - No case for profit-making schools, think-tank finds

Schools should not be run for profit, a report argues, which found that charities run schools better than businesses.

The case for profit-making schools is based on the idea that introducing competition will drive school improvement.

But the report by the Institute for Public Policy Research, which examines the case for introducing profit-making schools by looking at international evidence, found no conclusive link between allowing businesses to run schools and raising standards.

It concludes that instead policymakers should focus on what international evidence shows works best: strengthening school leadership, improving the quality of teaching, giving schools autonomy, while also holding them to account, and tackling inequalities between children from different class backgrounds.

The claim that one of the main barriers to improving standards was the exclusion of the private sector was not credible, it said.

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