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Engines of Privilege: Britain's private school problem #LSEPrivilege Professor Francis Green Discussant: Dr Luna Glucksberg Professor of Work and Education Economics at the Institute of Researcher at the International Inequalities Institute,

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Engines of Privilege: Britain's private school problem

#LSEPrivilege

Professor Francis Green

Professor of Work and Education Economics at the Institute of Education, UCL. Historian and Visiting Professor, Kingston University. Researcher at the International Inequalities Institute, LSE. Associate Professor in Sociology, LSE.

Professor David Kynaston Discussant: Dr Luna Glucksberg Chair: Dr Sam Friedman

Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute

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Why worry about private schools?

  • Only 1 in 16 pupils overall
  • Yet:
  • 1 in every 7 teachers is in the private

sector; ~ £1 in every £6 of expenditure is in private schools;

  • this means a private/state resource gap
  • f about £3 to £1 for each pupil
  • beacons of inequality

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Typical private school

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Typical state schools

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What does the evidence say?

  • Better educational outcomes at all

stages of education

  • Better access to universities
  • Better chances of success in the labour

market

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Participation in private school is concentrated at the very top of the income distribution.

.2 .4 .6 .8 Participation Rate 5 15 25 35 45 55 65 75 85 95 Income Percentile Private Education 95%-CI

Participation in private school education across family income percentiles

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What’s the problem?

  • Systemic inefficiency
  • Democratic deficit
  • Unfairness/ reproduction of privilege

(low social mobility)

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‘Private education is not fair. Those who provide it know it. Those who pay for it know it. Those who have to sacrifice in order to purchase it know it. And those who receive it know it, or should. And if their education ends without it dawning on them, then that education has been wasted.’

Alan Bennett’s sermon in Cambridge

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“It is unfair that some people with a lot of money get a better education and life chances for their children by paying for a private school”

Our Populus poll:

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63% 19% 18%

Agree Neutral Disagree

Populus

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Abu cartoon, Guardian 1968

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Options for reform

  • Curtailing demand
  • contextual admissions
  • taxation
  • Crossing the tracks/integrating supply
  • with private control over admissions
  • with social control over admissions

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Curtailing demand:

  • contextual admissions
  • taxation

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Crossing the tracks:

  • Private control over admissions
  • Open Access Scheme
  • others
  • Social control over admissions
  • Fair Access Scheme
  • ‘Abolition’

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What won’t work:

  • removing charitable status
  • the ‘politics of hypocrisy’
  • small scale schemes
  • private philanthropy/bursaries
  • small scale schemes

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63% 19% 18%

Agree Neutral Disagree

Populus

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51% 20% 29%

Agree Neutral

Private school insiders’ views on unfairness

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