
What you pay for
The gulf between state education and independent schools grows wider every year, says Fraser Nelson – just look at the results Why choose private education? For years — including five long ones spent at boarding school — I was convinced there was no good answer to this question. For my family, it was an obvious choice: my father had been dispatched to work in Cyprus, and his employer, the RAF, would pay for my boarding school fees if I wanted to stay in Scotland. Even a 13-year-old could see the logic. But once there, it baffled me: why would parents who did have the choice spend so much money? Now,