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The [[New Schools Network]] is a charity devoted to promoting the creating of maintained charitable schools.<ref>[http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityFramework.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1132122&SubsidiaryNumber=0 NEW SCHOOLS NETWORK], Charity Framework, Register of Charities, Charity Commission, accessed 16 August 2010.</ref> | The [[New Schools Network]] is a charity devoted to promoting the creating of maintained charitable schools.<ref>[http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityFramework.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1132122&SubsidiaryNumber=0 NEW SCHOOLS NETWORK], Charity Framework, Register of Charities, Charity Commission, accessed 16 August 2010.</ref> | ||
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+ | The ''Independent'''s Hilary Wilce offered the following pen-portrait of the New School Network, in a November 2009 profile of Rachel Wolf: | ||
+ | ::The New Schools Network is modelled on a similar advice centre in New York, and has Geoffrey Owen, a former Financial Times editor, as its chair, and Bruce Liddington, the former schools commissioner for England, and Julian Le Grand, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics, among its trustees. She declines to name her financial backers. saying only that they are "a relatively small number of individuals who have a long-standing interest in supporting education projects, particularly the academy programme."<ref>Hilary Wilce, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/time-for-change-how-a-young-woman-plans-to-shake-up-the-school-system-1818636.html Time for change: How a young woman plans to shake up the school system],Independent, 12 November 2009.</ref> | ||
==People== | ==People== |
Revision as of 16:09, 24 August 2010
The New Schools Network is a charity devoted to promoting the creating of maintained charitable schools.[1]
The Independent's Hilary Wilce offered the following pen-portrait of the New School Network, in a November 2009 profile of Rachel Wolf:
- The New Schools Network is modelled on a similar advice centre in New York, and has Geoffrey Owen, a former Financial Times editor, as its chair, and Bruce Liddington, the former schools commissioner for England, and Julian Le Grand, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics, among its trustees. She declines to name her financial backers. saying only that they are "a relatively small number of individuals who have a long-standing interest in supporting education projects, particularly the academy programme."[2]
Contents
People
- Rachel Wolf - Director[3]
Trustees
Advisers
- Professor Julian Le Grand
- Heath Monk
- Ian Cleland
- Baroness Sally Morgan
- Geoffrey Davies
- Paul Marshall
- Rev Tim Hastie-Smith
- James Merriman[5]
Contact
- Website http://www.newschoolsnetwork.org
Notes
- ↑ NEW SCHOOLS NETWORK, Charity Framework, Register of Charities, Charity Commission, accessed 16 August 2010.
- ↑ Hilary Wilce, Time for change: How a young woman plans to shake up the school system,Independent, 12 November 2009.
- ↑ About Us - Our Team, New Schools Network, accessed 16 August 2010.
- ↑ About Us - Our Team, New Schools Network, accessed 16 August 2010.
- ↑ About Us - Our Team, New Schools Network, accessed 16 August 2010.