Summary
THE cost of educating children at four closure-threatened council primaries in the Borders is now higher than the fees charged by many private schools.
Councillors will decide today whether to set in train the consultation process leading to the closure of surviving single- teacher country schools in Roxburghshire and Berwickshire. They will be told the cost of keeping each pupil at the four country schools, excluding catering and transport, varies from GBP 7,474 to GBP 11,052. The average figure for council-run schools in the Borders is GBP 2,674.See the full content of this document
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Fading Rural Primaries Faced with Closure
But according to a fee scale advertised by a leading local private school near Berwick, their annual char...
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