The state of independence : key challenges facing private schools today / edited by David James and Jane Lunnon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / David James and Jane Lunnon -- The pastoral challenge / Julie Johnson, Rachel Kelly, Dick Moore, Emma Robertson, Sir Anthony Seldon -- The academic challenge / Helen Pike, Briony Scott, Joseph Spence, Kevin Stannard, Ian Warwick -- The junior challenge / Jane Cameron, Phillip Evitt, Richard Foster, Ralph Lucas, Ben Thomas -- The financial challenge / Stephen Crouch, John Edward, Heather Mcgregor, James Tooley, David Woodgate -- The access challenge / Ian Davenport, Patrick Derham, David Ejim-McCubbin, Nick Hillman, Barnaby Lenon, Justine Voisin -- The diversity challenge / Emmanuel Akpan-Inwang, Jaideep Barot, Jenny Brown, Nick Dennis, Mary Myatt -- The gender challenge / Jenny Allum, Natasha Devon, Richard Hoskins, Fionnuala Kennedy, Lucy Pearson -- The innovation challenge / Sean Dagony-Clark, Page Eimer, Dominic A.A. Randolph, Simon Walker, Crispin Weston, Ian Yorston -- The international challenge / Edward Clark, Helen Wright, Justin Garrick, Virginia Macgregor, Jamie Martin, Cameron Pyke, Russell Speirs, Mark Steed -- The political challenge / John Blake, Ed Dorrell, Estelle Morris, Tom Richmond, Julie Robinson, Mark Scott, Roger Scruton -- Conclusion / David James and Jane Lunnon.

"Exploring the most significant challenges facing independent schools today, this book asks leading figures from education, economics, politics, philosophy and the arts to give their views on how independent schools can adapt to rapidly changing markets which see them scrutinised as never before. Acknowledging the independent sector as a vital and growing part of the global education system, this book explores how schools are to respond to financial, moral, pastoral and academic challenges, and so ensure their own survival, and the futures of the children they educate. Breaking a complex and varied field down into ten clear areas of analysis, essays written by leading education experts tackle the key challenges faced by independent schools around the world. Commentators consider the issues created by the upward trend of educating international students, question the extent to which independent schools have echoed societal movements towards greater access, diversity and gender fluidity, and provide first-hand insight into the experiences of staff, pupils and parents involved in the everyday functioning and longer-term development of the independent sector. A health check on this most controversial of sectors, this book will enlighten and inform not only those working in independent schools today, but anyone interested in education, and will make an important contribution to a bigger debate about the place of independent schools at a time of political, economic and societal uncertainty"-- Provided by publisher.