Ofsted Annual Report 2011

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Janet Downs: Is social enterprise the acceptable face of making money from providing state education?

“The idea of a state-run school seeking profit is likely to provoke a strong reaction,” says the Summer 2012 Academy Magazine, “but James Groves of Policy Exchange argues that social enterprise can help improve standards.” “Social enterprise schools may be a halfway house” between for-profit and not-for profit schools, argues Groves, and 50% of any “surplus” would be distributed to shareholders. ... read more and comment →

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Latest comment by Chester Bellucci: "Social enterprise is just another word for the exploitation of the masses.The new stage of the crisis is bound up with an intensification of the class struggle. Mass strikes have rocked Greece and the rest of Europe in response to ......"

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