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Estelle Morris
Tuesday April 25, 2006
The Guardian

It's a great shame that the arrival in our schools of big-time philanthropy has got embroiled in the furore over 'cash for honours'. Those inquiries will, quite rightly, take their course, but the whole thing has thrown up a couple of questions that are worthy of debate, whatever the outcome of the investigations. First, should we worry if wealthy people give their money to schools? And second, what does all this talk about external partners for schools really mean?"