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NZ tops private school league table
Posted on 27th December 2007
British private schools have been usurped from their global lead by New Zealand, new research suggests.
The international study, published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, shows that private schools in New Zealand are achieving better results than British ones.
Well-off Asian families could send their children to the Antipodes rather than to UK schools on the back of this information, the Financial Times suggested that
The newspaper commented that private schools in the UK are already struggling to attract students from abroad.
It added that British schools were more expensive than others located abroad - including those in New Zealand.
Lynda Reid, principal of New Zealand girls school St Cuthbert's College, said: "New Zealand independent schools represent the best value on the planet."
Martin Stephen, high master of St Paul's School, an independent establishment, recently described league tables as a "cancer on the face of education" that encouraged "tick-box" teaching.
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