
Profiting from profit-making
School reform is by some margin the best Conservative policy, but could it be better still? The Independent today runs a piece in which Michael Gove is told he’s making a “terrific mistake” by refusing to allow his proposed independent schools to make a profit. The comments come from Mikael Sandstrom, a state secretary (or spad, as we call them) but one of the world’s leading authorities on school reform. He is more than just an adviser and has written academic papers showing how much better the “free schools” (as they are called in Sweden) perform. Sweden has reams of data, thousands of students: it isn’t theoretical over there. It
