Publicly funded, privately managed

Barry McGaw, head of the OECD's education directorate, proposes that public schools need to change their management structure in order to compete with private schools;

Government schools would remain publicly funded and could not charge fees. But they would be more accountable, and distinguished "not by their resources but by their pedagogy and value systems". Instead of indulging in "the politics of envy" - where public school advocates resented the resources of some private schools - they should emulate the management style of their competitors.