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(Paperback)

By: Jonathan Barnes

ISBN: 9781915261359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Hodder Education
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John Catt's Guide to International Schools is the leading guidebook to international education, now in its 19th edition. The 2022/23 edition has been updated to include more than 5,000 international schools.


(Paperback)

By: David Tyack

ISBN: 9780465043743
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1986
Publisher: Basic Books
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Can America's faith in public education be restored As they analyse the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.


(Hardback)

By: Peng Deng

ISBN: 9780275956394
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Drawing on an abundance of primary sources as well as on the author's extensive personal experience in the Chinese school system, this book examines the evolution of non-governmental schools in China between 1895 and 1995.


(Hardback)

By: Geoffrey Walford

ISBN: 9780826485991
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Private schools are central to the reproduction of social inequality. For example, whilst in the UK providing only about seven per cent of the school population, about half of the undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge still come from the private sector.


(Paperback)

By: Shamus Rahman Khan

ISBN: 9780691229201
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons. This title provides an inside look at an institution that has been the private realm of the elite.


(Paperback)

By: Colin Shrosbree

ISBN: 9780719025815
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An analysis of the Clarendon Commission (1861-64) and the Public School Acts showing their profound importance to the future and development of education in England. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Craig Campbell

ISBN: 9781741756562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Explores the dilemmas many parents face when choosing a school for their children, and the impact of the growing gap between public and private schools on families, schools and the community.


(Hardback)

By: Mary E. Henry

ISBN: 9781567500226
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Focusing on private schools, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of schools as social settings, illustrating their potential to create alternative cultures.


(Hardback)

By: Jing Lin

ISBN: 9780275955908
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A contextualized study of the development, characteristics, problems, issues and future prospects of private schools and universities in China after 1978.


(Hardback)

By: Oliver Gent

ISBN: 9781917458115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 12th June 2025
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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(Hardback)

By: Henry Sire

ISBN: 9781916846654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2024
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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(Paperback)

By: Phoebe Whybray

ISBN: 9781036011154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Hodder Education
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(Paperback)

By: Graham Lee

ISBN: 9781909717183
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Hodder Education
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Advice on how to prepare students for their first experience of boarding school. If you are contemplating sending your child overseas to boarding school, then this book is for you. With a focus on UK schools, it charts the journey, stage by stage, that each and every parent and student must make, with advice and encouragement along the way.


(Paperback)

By: Graham Lee

ISBN: 9781909717015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Hodder Education
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Advice from a mother on how to prepare girls for their first experience of boarding school. This book is for parents who have decided that boarding is the best option for their girls and is a guide to preparing your daughter so that she is confident from the start and can get the most out of the opportunity she's been given.


(Paperback)

By: Jonathan Barnes

ISBN: 9781915261229
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Hodder Education
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Everything you need to know about independent schools and colleges in London and the South-East. Now in its 33rd edition.


(Paperback)

By: Phoebe Whybray

ISBN: 9781036001506
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Hodder Education
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(Hardback)

By: James Brooke-Smith

ISBN: 9781789140668
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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