This guide provides the information necessary to make an informed choice for the best secondary schools throughout the UK. It offers parents facts about more than 530 independent secondary schools: fees; assisted places and scholarships; numbers of pupils; ratios of girls to boys and pupils to teachers; whether they are day and/or boarding schools; the heads' backgrounds; approaches and policies on discipline; the exams offered - GCSE and A-levels, S-grades and Highers; vocational courses; languages; foreign exchange visits ...
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This guide provides the information necessary to make an informed choice for the best secondary schools throughout the UK. It offers parents facts about more than 530 independent secondary schools: fees; assisted places and scholarships; numbers of pupils; ratios of girls to boys and pupils to teachers; whether they are day and/or boarding schools; the heads' backgrounds; approaches and policies on discipline; the exams offered - GCSE and A-levels, S-grades and Highers; vocational courses; languages; foreign exchange visits; and what pupils go on to do. There is also advice on: issues, such as bullying, dyslexia, corporal punishment and expulsion; and the mechanics of the education system, such as league tables, COBISEC (The Council of British Independent Schools in the European Community), the National Curriculum and registration requirements. Klaus Bohem and Jenny Lees-Spalding is the author of "The Student Book".
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Add this copy of The Equitable Schools Book 1992 to cart. $20.85, very good condition, Sold by Cambridge Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cambridge, Gloucestershire, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1991 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
Add this copy of The Equitable Schools Book 1998 to cart. $23.96, good condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1997 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
