On Tuesday 7th August 2018 LLAKES Centre’s Professor Francis Green appeared on BBC Newsnight calling for more social integration of private schools into the state education system so they are not just ‘bastions of privilege’.
“The schools would still retain their independent governance, and their independence from local authorities and so on and so forth, but they would be obliged to begin to socially integrate so they are not just bastions of privilege.” – Francis Green.
Read more here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45104327
The interview can be viewed on BBC iPlayer for the next 28 days – https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bf54sd/newsnight-07082018 – the section on Private Schools starts 26 minutes in, and Francis’ interview is 31 minutes in.