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6 September 2019

Gove reveals plan for profit-making schools

Education Secretary declares that free schools "could" become for-profit.

By George Eaton

Michael Gove’s appearance at the Leveson inquiry has provided us with a revelation, but not the one you might have expected. For the first time on record, the Education Secretary declared that free schools “could” become for-profit institutions in the second term of a Tory-led government.

Gove told the inquiry:

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