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Overview

The guide is compiled by a team of editors which, according to the official website, "''comprises some 50 editors, writers, researchers and contributors; mostly parents but some former headteachers.''"Good Schools Guide
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. Other publications produced by The Guide include ''The Good Schools Guide – Special Education Needs'', ''The Good Schools Guide International'', ''The Good Schools Guide London North'', ''The Good Schools Guide London South'' and ''

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''. An offshoot is the Good Schools Guide Education Consultants (formerly Advice Service) – a service for finding schools and offering educational or other advice to parents on a consultancy basis. The consultants are The Guide writers and other experts.

Style

The Guide itself has a brisk, conversational and often irreverent style of review: the website states that because writers do not accept payment from the schools being reviewed, the guide is "in a position to be outspoken, to write and to advise eadersimpartially, without fear of being biased or having a conflict of loyalties." The ''

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'' stated that the ''Guide'' is "...untroubled by the sensibilities of schools and ... cavalier in the face of squawks from those it has offended".

Reviews

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'' reviewed the guide in the following terms: "Unique among the many guides available, it sets out to give frank answers to the questions every parent asks." Similarly, the ''

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'' called the ''Guide'' "One of the best aids for parents...informative and witty." The ''FT'' has also described the ''Guide'' as "one of Britain's leading guides to schools". The Guardian repeatedly describes the ''Guide'' as "the bible for middle-class school choice"

''International''

''The Good Schools Guide International'' (GSGI) is an online resource also edited by the guide with details of international schools in over 35 countries. The ''GSGI'' is aimed at English-speaking parents resident outside the UK who want an international education for their children.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Good Schools Guide Publications established in 1986 1986 establishments in the United Kingdom Education in the United Kingdom British non-fiction books Books about education Series of non-fiction books British educational websites