Educational Investor Round Table

Earning and learning…
The private sector is playing an ever greater role in education – but how do we ensure commercial and educational goals are aligned? We brought some experts together to discuss the issues.

een one way, private sector activity in education remains a minority pursuit.Unlike transport or social care, the delivery of education remains for the most part in public hands. Just look at our universities, colleges and schools.However, look closer and you’ll see that trend slowly starting to change. Since 2010, the government has welcomed much greater involvement from private providers in the delivery of higher education. Much of our nursery sector is now run by independent providers. And our growing apprenticeship programme is delivered largely by commercial firms. That’s not to mention the continued growth of ‘pure private’ areas of provision, either: independent schools, tutoring and language schools.