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Francis Holland school gets a fail over poor safeguarding of girls
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Private schools
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Apr 22, 2022
Hemel Hempstead teachers sent dismissal letters in pension row
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Apr 12, 2022
Private schools could be forced to raise fees
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Apr 7, 2022
Private school pension deal ends strike
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Mar 16, 2022
NEU pension dispute at Girls' Day School Trust
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Mar 15, 2022
UK private schools should lose their charitable status if they take money linked to Putin, Labour MP says
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Mar 8, 2022
Teachers at top girls' school in Wales hold third day of strike action over pensions dispute
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Mar 2, 2022
Nottingham Girls' High: Further strike at private girls' school
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Mar 1, 2022
Teacher strike continues after pension deal rejected
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Mar 1, 2022
Northampton High School: More strike action over pensions
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Feb 28, 2022
Russian pupils at UK private schools ‘terrified’ of being ostracised by classmates after Ukraine invasion
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Feb 26, 2022
Scotland: SNP to issue private schools with new rules on child protection
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Feb 20, 2022
Dirty cash pays fees at top private schools
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Feb 19, 2022
Labour plan to end private schools’ charitable status ‘would flood state sector with pupils’
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Feb 10, 2022
Girls’ Day School Trust hit with first teacher strike over pensions
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Feb 10, 2022
Expansionist private schools need a lesson in morality
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Jan 30, 2022
Independent school teachers back pension strike action
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Jan 28, 2022
Girls’ private schools could strike for the first time over pensions
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Jan 26, 2022
Girls' private schools could strike for the first time over pensions
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Jan 26, 2022
Teachers at 23 private schools vote to strike over pensions
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Jan 26, 2022
GDST vote yes for strike action
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Jan 26, 2022
White British cricketers from private schools 34 times more likely than young Asians to reach elite level
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Nov 20, 2021
Nazi Germany was inspired by ‘Fuhrer-like’ British public schools like Eton
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Germany
Nov 17, 2021
Nazis based their elite schools on top British private schools
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Germany
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Nov 17, 2021
Nazis used UK public schools like Eton and Harrow as 'model' for education system
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Nov 17, 2021
Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
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Nov 13, 2021
Scotland: Private school teacher lied about death for a week off
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Nov 9, 2021
Westminster School abandons plans for sister sites in China amid concerns about communist curriculum
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China
Nov 3, 2021
Westminster School axes plans for sister college in China
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China
Nov 3, 2021
Westminster School outposts ditched after China crackdown
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China
Nov 3, 2021
Westminster School pulls out of China after Communist Party insists lessons are approved by Beijing
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Nov 2, 2021
Spending gap between private and state schools doubles as they spend £6,500 more per pupil
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Oct 8, 2021
The pandemic ought to be the turning point in the debate about private schools
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Sep 30, 2021
Citizenship reforms, digital skills and careers advice: Starmer sets out his plan for schools
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Kier Starmer
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Sep 26, 2021
Keir Starmer to pledge end to private schools VAT exemption
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Sep 25, 2021
Prep teachers stressed by 'intrusive' lockdown parents
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Sep 24, 2021
How posh schools work hard to remove any trace of pupils’ Scottishness
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Sep 20, 2021
Private school pupils clean desks to tackle Covid
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Sep 6, 2021
Letters: Parents, not fees, give private pupils the edge
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Aug 29, 2021
Cash is why private schools do best, says state head
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Aug 22, 2021
Confessions of a private-school teacher: the kids are all right but the parents have been a total nightmare
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Aug 14, 2021
Private schools are set to take the lion's share of top A-Level grades this year
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Aug 5, 2021
Private schools 'pay agents in China up to £10,000 for each pupil they send to the UK' amid fears British middle class families are being priced out
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China
Aug 1, 2021
Private schools pay agents in China £10,000 for each child sent to UK
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Aug 1, 2021
Schools lobby Oxbridge for private pupils
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Jul 25, 2021
Learn wherever you like, says school
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Jul 12, 2021
Entrepreneur pays £80,000 so student can go to private school in Wales
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Jun 22, 2021
St Paul’s Girls’ School ditches ‘binary’ head girl
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Jun 19, 2021
Everyone’s Invited : ‘Matter of concern’ 8 times more private schools listed on anti-sexual harassment site
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Jun 15, 2021
‘No frills’ private school racks up £170k loss
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Jun 11, 2021
Coroner warns private school after two pupil suicides
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May 13, 2021
Tes Independent School Awards 2021: the winners
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Apr 30, 2021
Private school teacher took pupils to strip club during ‘educational’ trip to Costa Rica
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Apr 23, 2021
Private schools to cash in on remote lessons
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Apr 23, 2021
Roy Liddle: Lay off private schools, Gavin. There’s bad behaviour in comprehensives too
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Apr 11, 2021
Musa Okwonga: ‘Boys don’t learn shamelessness at Eton, it is where they perfect it’
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Apr 10, 2021
Dulwich College turns boys into sexual abusers, former pupil claims
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Mar 28, 2021
How UK schoolgirls finally found voice to tell of sexual abuse
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Mar 28, 2021
Whitehall investigation launched into Britain’s elite schools amid ‘rape culture’ scandal fears
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Mar 28, 2021
Call for probe into claims of 'rape culture' at independent schools
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Mar 27, 2021
Everyone's Invited: Sex abuse claims 'not limited to private schools'
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Mar 27, 2021
Calls for state inspection of private schools after abuse scandals
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Mar 27, 2021
The Chinese are buying into our private schools and we should be grateful
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Mar 24, 2021
Private school opens 'female fight club' to teach pupils boardroom skills
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Mar 20, 2021
Private schools say anonymous reports of sexual abuse put them in 'difficult' position
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Mar 19, 2021
Private schools chase inner-city ‘drive’
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Mar 19, 2021
Wimbledon private school is a hotbed of sexual violence, letter to head claims
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Mar 18, 2021
Scotland: Leading private schools admit failings over abuse of pupils
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Mar 17, 2021
'A community of equals': the private school with no fees, set up by a south London teacher
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Mar 13, 2021
Going private is putting our children’s Oxbridge chances at risk, parents fear
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Mar 13, 2021
Number of private school tutors paid more than £100,000-a-year soars
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Mar 7, 2021
Private pupils shunned by Oxbridge are being driven overseas
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Feb 28, 2021
Winchester College is to admit girls for first time in its 640-year history
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Feb 10, 2021
Private schools planning a longer summer term
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Feb 7, 2021
Private schools call for delay to plans to strip them of charitable tax breaks
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Scotland
Feb 7, 2021
Winchester College is accused of condoning underage sex
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Feb 5, 2021
Surge in British private schools opening in China
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Jan 26, 2021
IGCSE exams taken in private schools still going ahead
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Pearson
Jan 8, 2021
Private heads 'fuming' after 'buck passed'
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Jan 7, 2021
Eton fixed my appeal, says sacked teacher Will Knowland
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Jan 7, 2021
Private schools 'bewildered' by Covid test costs U-turn
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Jan 4, 2021
Private school pupils twice as likely to get on to civil service fast track
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Jan 3, 2021
Mixed race wife of sacked Eton teacher slams the school's 'wokery'
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Dec 22, 2020
'Not deliverable': Private schools' Covid test warning
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Dec 21, 2020
'Not deliverable': Private schools' Covid test warning
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Dec 21, 2020
Old Etonians threaten to withhold millions in row over sacked teacher Will Knowland
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Dec 21, 2020
DfE's spin on private schools' A-levels gain revealed
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Dec 14, 2020
Opinion: Private schools - Catherine Bennett on Eton and old Etonians
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Dec 13, 2020
Roedean 'decolonises' its history syllabus to challenge 'white western narrative'
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Dec 12, 2020
Roedean decolonises its lessons
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Dec 12, 2020
Home learning frustrations drive parents to private schools
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Dec 11, 2020
London private school head boosts bursaries to admit pupils regardless of their wealth
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Dec 1, 2020
800 Etonians in revolt after teacher is sacked for questioning radical feminist dogma on 'toxic masculinity'
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Nov 29, 2020
Eton students turn on headmaster over teacher's dismissal
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Nov 28, 2020
Ampleforth College banned from taking new pupils by DfE
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Nov 27, 2020
Ampleforth College ordered to stop admitting new pupils over safeguarding failures
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Nov 27, 2020
Private schools record biggest rise in top A-level grades in England
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Nov 26, 2020
Private schools got biggest top A-levels boost after grade U-turn
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Nov 26, 2020
Lockdown has given privately educated children a sporting advantage over state schools
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Nov 15, 2020
Elite private school faces racism claims as ex-pupils allege annual 'slave auction' took place
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Nov 10, 2020
Private school with ‘culture of racism’ held mock slave auctions, claim former pupils
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Nov 10, 2020
Give all pupils a laptop, top private schools tell DfE
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Oct 26, 2020
Private schools must do more for low-income families
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Sep 30, 2020
Ireland: Private schools ‘subject to bias' in Leaving Cert grade calculations
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Sep 13, 2020
Subject-by-subject breakdown suggests private school children were biggest winners from GCSE grade inflation
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Aug 20, 2020
The private schools racket is falling apart | Max Hastings
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Aug 20, 2020
'Drill and kill' for England's state schools while private sector goes progressive
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Aug 18, 2020
A-level: Top private schools want teacher grades U-turn
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Aug 17, 2020
A-level results 2020: Private schools see biggest boost in top grades
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Aug 13, 2020
Demand for private school places leaps after lockdown
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Jul 27, 2020
Demand for private school places surges by 30%
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Jul 26, 2020
Anxious middle-classes look to private schools after coronavirus disruption
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Jul 26, 2020
Only a zealot would oppose: should the UK nationalise struggling private schools?
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Jul 18, 2020
Private schools see a surge of interest as parents look for more structured learning
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Jul 12, 2020
State school pupils will study just five or six GCSEs as teachers cram to make up for lost learning
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Jul 5, 2020
Private schools could be shut over racism
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Jul 5, 2020
Private schools accuse ministers of ignoring their offers to provide summer catch-up courses for local children
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Gavin Williamson
Jun 28, 2020
Pandemic promises to be unlikely saviour of ailing private schools
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Jun 26, 2020
Bullying worse in private schools, new research shows
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Jun 25, 2020
Top private schools want to 'decolonise' their curriculum by altering history lessons
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Jun 22, 2020
'It’s a basic equality issue': home learning gap between state and private schools
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Jun 19, 2020
More than 250 former pupils accuse top private school of racism
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Jun 18, 2020
Private schools offer to open up classrooms to state educated children for 'catch-up' lessons this summer
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Jun 17, 2020
Private school grounds offered for summer catch-up
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Jun 17, 2020
Private schools are offering their buildings and grounds for summer catch-up lessons for 'disadvantaged' state pupils
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Jun 17, 2020
Private schools plan to ignore Government advice and open at the start of September 'come what may'
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Jun 17, 2020
Private schools set to ignore Government and open in September 'come what may'
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Jun 16, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: parents rush to private schools
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Jun 16, 2020
Why I wrote an open letter to my old private school asking them to decolonise their curriculum – and why all private schools should follow
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Jun 15, 2020
As 30 private schools face closure - why are some thriving and others failing?
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Jun 9, 2020
Private schools could be forced to close for good as pandemic impacts funds
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Jun 6, 2020
Ex-private school director ‘unable’ to repay £150k loan
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Jun 5, 2020
Coronavirus: Private school closures will put pressure on state
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Jun 5, 2020
Black pupils warn of n-word abuse in UK private schools
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Jun 2, 2020
When will private schools reopen and can they set their own rules?
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May 22, 2020
When will private schools reopen and can they set their own rules?
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May 22, 2020
Fears 30% of private schools will go bust
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May 8, 2020
Collapsed private school attended by Sarah Ferguson 'demands parents pay £3,900 summer term fees'
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May 5, 2020
Scotland: Business rates rise for private schools put on hold
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May 4, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: Private schools get reprieve from rates hike to see off crisis
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May 4, 2020
Britain’s private schools warned against fee collusion
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Apr 29, 2020
ISC response to the Competition and Markets Authority
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Apr 29, 2020
Private schools may not need to stagger classes as much as state schools because 'they have more space'
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Apr 29, 2020
Competition watchdog warns private schools over fee-fixing collusion during coronavirus outbreak
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Apr 29, 2020
Covid-19: Private schools warned over fees 'collusion'
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Apr 29, 2020
Why private schools could reopen sooner than state-funded schools
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Apr 29, 2020
School's in for summer!
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Apr 21, 2020
Private schools accused of exploiting loophole by setting new mock exams to boost predicted grades
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Ofqual
Apr 16, 2020
The private schools working to narrow the underprivileged attainment gap this spring
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Apr 14, 2020
Crisis offers chance to rethink the role of public schools
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Sir Anthony Seldon
Apr 13, 2020
Pupils held to ‘ransom’ by private school's demand of fees for grades
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Apr 12, 2020
Private schools’ land targeted for families without gardens
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Apr 12, 2020
Coronavirus: Chinese private school 'feeding frenzy'
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Apr 9, 2020
UK’s elite private schools reject upfront fee cuts
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Apr 8, 2020
UK private schools feel pandemic squeeze
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Apr 7, 2020
The three reasons you'll still be paying summer term fees at your private school
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Apr 6, 2020
‘Will our pupils ever come back?’ ask private schools
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Apr 3, 2020
Hundreds private schools 'bust by Christmas'
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Apr 3, 2020
Coronavirus: Private schools 'wrestling' with fee cuts
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Apr 1, 2020
Private schools in UK struggling as coronavirus costs bite
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Apr 1, 2020
Fears that fees will dry up grips the private sector
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Mar 24, 2020
Private schools may offer parents partial refunds and freeze fees
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Mar 22, 2020
Coronavirus: Private schools' plea to parents over fees
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Mar 22, 2020
Private schools’ £100m rates relief at risk
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Mar 14, 2020
Help us nationalise more private schools, head tells DfE
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Mar 11, 2020
More private school teachers to strike over pensions
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Mar 3, 2020
Strikes hit private schools as teachers down chalks over threat to pensions
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Mar 1, 2020
Podcast: The private schools hoarding millions
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Feb 28, 2020
Private schools with the highest surpluses revealed
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Feb 28, 2020
Carshalton Beeches bowlers can see Seaton House School girls undressing, court told
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Feb 27, 2020
More private school teacher pensions strikes
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Feb 11, 2020
Want to survive, private schools? Then improve society
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Feb 11, 2020
Scottish private schools to pay full business rates
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Scotland
Feb 5, 2020
Chinese private school pupils in the UK face two weeks of quarantine if they go home for half term because of coronavirus fears
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Feb 3, 2020
Will the Tories turn on 'elitist' independent schools?
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Feb 2, 2020
Was my son rejected by Oxford because he went to a private school?
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Jan 30, 2020
Why would private schools get to dictate who is ‘suitable’ to go to university? | Nathalie Olah
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Jan 30, 2020
Education less elitist, but we still have a way to go...
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Jan 29, 2020
ISC statement: 'Transforming opportunity in higher education' report from the OfS
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Jan 29, 2020
Top unis agree disadvantaged pupils admissions targets
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Jan 29, 2020
Plans to boost disadvantaged university students could ‘discriminate’ against better-off pupils, private schools say
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Jan 29, 2020
Education experts warn of bid to boost numbers of disadvantaged students getting to Oxbridge
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Jan 29, 2020
Private schools criticise plans to get more poor students into university
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Elite schools refuse to accept £1m gift after donor says it can only be spent on white boys
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£1m scholarship donations for white pupils ‘snubbed by English private schools’
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Dec 13, 2019
Scottish private schools and rates relief
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Dec 11, 2019
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Nov 29, 2019
More small private schools receive top Ofsted grades, but 1 in 10 still 'inadequate'
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Nov 27, 2019
Bust 'rich boys in top hats' myth, private schools told
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Nov 25, 2019
Labour’s radical education plan could swamp state schools with 135k pupils
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Nov 22, 2019
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Nov 22, 2019
Labour Party manifesto savaged by leading British analysts - ‘Unrealistic empty promises’
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Nov 15, 2019
Chaplain at top Methodist school quits after saying gay and lesbian people should stay single
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Nov 12, 2019
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Nov 9, 2019
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Labour: Corbyn’s ‘well off’ mother sent sons to Grammar School - which he wants to destroy
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Nov 7, 2019
Labour manifesto to include private school tax hike
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Don’t let Labour take charge of our children’s schools | Gavin Williamson
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Nov 5, 2019
ISC response to report in The Times about missing Vietnamese children
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Gangs use top schools to traffic Asian girls
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Nov 4, 2019
Teaching in a tough school: Kids are angry. I am, too
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Nov 3, 2019
Labour plans to abolish private schools would be devastating for UK taxpayer warns expert
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Oct 31, 2019
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Oct 28, 2019
Ofsted denied access to ‘closed’ private school site
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Oct 23, 2019
Gillian Bowditch: China offers us lessons in value of education
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Oct 20, 2019
Labour private schools plot: Is your child at risk from Corbyn’s ‘most damaging’ plan?
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Oct 18, 2019
Scotland: Fettes College is remade in China
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Oct 18, 2019
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Oct 14, 2019
Hallelujah! Lancing College set to finish chapel 150 years on
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Oct 13, 2019
Private schools/Labour: Eton disorder
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Oct 13, 2019
Don’t close private schools, open them up | Emma Duncan
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Oct 12, 2019
Rayner accused of 'cosying up' to private schools
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Oct 9, 2019
‘Don’t trust Corbyn!’ Labour private schools plot could cost taxpayers £7.5BN each year
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Oct 6, 2019
Coming soon: the £1m school fees
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Oct 6, 2019
Headmaster would rather close down Bedales than take it into state system
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Oct 6, 2019
Private school head 'would rather close down' than become a state school
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Oct 5, 2019
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Labour brain drain: Plot against private schools will ‘force students abroad’
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Seven failing private schools banned from accepting new pupils
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Oct 3, 2019
Private schools warn uni cap would lead to brain drain
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Oct 2, 2019
Ex-Eton head Tony Little says Johnson, Cameron and Rees-Mogg are giving the school 'a bad name'
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Oct 2, 2019
Don't make closing private schools education's Brexit
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Two-thirds of public support independent education
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Sep 30, 2019
Private schools say abolition would be vote-loser
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Sep 30, 2019
Labour's plan for private schools based on 'desire to damage'
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Sep 30, 2019
More than half of Labour voters disagree with Corbyn's new policy to abolish private schools
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Sep 30, 2019
Private schools scrap Britain’s oldest exam
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Sep 29, 2019
Tax us and we’ll leave UK, say private schools
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Sep 29, 2019
Education needs an overhaul, but closing private schools is not the answer | Lee Elliot Major and Steve Higgins
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Sep 28, 2019
Abolishing private schools is not the education fight we need
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Sep 27, 2019
Our apartheid education system is a burning injustice
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Sep 27, 2019
Would abolishing private schools really make a difference to equality?
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Sep 27, 2019
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Sep 26, 2019
Abolishing private schools is admirable, but won’t make choosing a state one any easier for parents
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Sep 26, 2019
'It is educational apartheid': are we finally ready to end private schools?
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Sep 26, 2019
Private schools chief attacks 'truly toxic' portrayal of sector
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Sep 26, 2019
Grenfell head: Abolishing private schools ‘misguided'
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Sep 25, 2019
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Sep 25, 2019
Grenfell head attacks Labour’s decision to scrap private schools
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Sep 25, 2019
Abolishing private schools would not help my state pupils
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Sep 25, 2019
The hypocrites on Labour’s front bench will betray ordinary schoolchildren
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Sep 24, 2019
The end of private schools? Not by a long shot
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Sep 24, 2019
Labour is right to target private school privilege – but abolition isn’t the only answer | Robert Verkaik
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Sep 24, 2019
Boris blasts Corbyn plot to axe private schools – would leave taxpayer with £7billion bill
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Sep 24, 2019
Eton headmaster slams Labour's plan to abolish private schools
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Sep 24, 2019
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John McDonnell cools on Labour purge of private schools
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Sep 24, 2019
Private schools row: what can we learn from other countries?
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Sep 24, 2019
Corbyn has launched ‘pointless’ and ‘hypocritical’ attack on education system warns Boris
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Sep 23, 2019
Head of Eton hits back at Labour plans to abolish private schools
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Sep 23, 2019
Private schools warn Labour's bid to abolish them is illegal
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Sep 23, 2019
Diane Abbott and Shami Chakrabarti called ‘hypocrites’ for bid to abolish private schools
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Sep 23, 2019
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Sep 23, 2019
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Sep 23, 2019
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Sep 22, 2019
Labour Party high flyers are accused of 'blind hypocrisy' for backing efforts to abolish private education despite sending their children to private schools
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Sep 21, 2019
Private school critics buying homes in catchment areas of good state schools 'smacks of hypocrisy'
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Buying homes near good schools ‘worse than going private’
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Sep 21, 2019
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Sep 20, 2019
Dismantling private schools could create problems, union leader warns
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Sep 20, 2019
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Sep 20, 2019
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Sep 19, 2019
ISC response to Private School Policy Reform report
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Sep 19, 2019
Call for reform of 'problem' private school system
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Sep 19, 2019
Labour’s John McDonnell backs motion to scrap private schools
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Sep 18, 2019
McDonnell backs campaign to abolish private schools
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Sep 18, 2019
McDonnell backs plan to abolish private schools
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Sep 18, 2019
John McDonnell backs 'Abolish Eton' debate at Labour conference
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Sep 18, 2019
The great outdoors is a welcome break from classroom
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Sep 15, 2019
Pupils served up a vital lesson in healthy eating
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Sep 15, 2019
George Orwell was right, private schools bar moves towards a fairer society
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Independent school head teachers hit back at Labour’s ‘dodgy maths’
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Sep 14, 2019
Never mind ‘tax raids’, Labour – just abolish private education | Owen Jones
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Sep 13, 2019
Labour's private school tax plan is 'dangerous'
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Sep 13, 2019
Treat private schools like any other business - John McDonnell
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Sep 13, 2019
Fee-paying school heads accuse Labour of seeking to destroy private education
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Sep 13, 2019
Jeremy Corbyn is 'plotting £1.6billion tax raid' on independent education
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Sep 13, 2019
Labour outrage: Corbyn accused of damaging education following leaked tax raid documents
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Sep 13, 2019
Eton could be forced to pay millions more in business rates under Labour government
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Sep 12, 2019
The private school system is ‘morally rotten’. This could be the moment for its downfall | Melissa Benn
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Sep 10, 2019
ISC statement: 'Labour against private schools'
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Sep 8, 2019
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Sep 7, 2019
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Sep 3, 2019
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Aug 29, 2019
State schools get A* for closing gap with the private sector
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Aug 26, 2019
The Guardian view on easier GCSEs at private schools: insult added to injury | Editorial
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Aug 25, 2019
Private-school careers is freemasons for 11-year-olds
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Aug 23, 2019
Should we abolish private schools? (video)
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Aug 22, 2019
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Aug 14, 2019
How SNP tax raid on private schools will affect state system
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Aug 14, 2019
62 private schools withdrawing from Teachers’ Pension Scheme
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Aug 12, 2019
The African streetchild plucked from the harsh streets of Uganda before gaining a place at one of Wales’ poshest private schools
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Aug 6, 2019
As Boris Johnson – another Prime Minister who went to Eton – enters office, it's time to end private school privilege
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Jul 23, 2019
Optimism for Scottish school linked to Tilda Swinton as it faces cash crisis
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Jul 23, 2019
Closing private schools would not be 'burden' on state
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Jul 21, 2019
Scotland: £36,000 gap threatens school co-founded by Tilda Swinton
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Jul 20, 2019
Charity watchdog to investigate closure of Craigholme private school following 'merger concerns'
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Jul 19, 2019
Watchdog to probe closure of one of Scotland’s last private secondaries for girls
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Jul 19, 2019
Tom Utley: I once shared Labour's wish to abolish private schools
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Jul 19, 2019
Abolishing private schools would not improve education
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Jul 18, 2019
Labour campaign to shut down private schools 'could cost taxpayers billions'
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Jul 17, 2019
Closing private schools will cost millions, Labour is told
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Jul 17, 2019
'Are they in waistcoats and tails? Condemn them!'
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Jul 16, 2019
Give one in ten private school places to the poorest, says head
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Jul 15, 2019
The Guardian view on private schools: the rich secede from the rest
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Jul 14, 2019
Holly Rigby: we must abolish private schools (video)
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Jul 13, 2019
Labour councillor who attacked ‘privatised education’ sends child to £40,000-a-year school
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Jul 12, 2019
State schools find it much harder to access university partnerships
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Jul 12, 2019
Chinese buy up more of England’s private schools
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Jul 10, 2019
Labour MPs and members launch bid to abolish BoJo's private school Eton College
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Jul 9, 2019
Labour MPs and members launch bid to abolish BoJo's private school Eton College
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Jul 9, 2019
Chinese group buys UK schools network
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Jul 9, 2019
Labour must be bold, and finally abolish private schools | Steven Longden
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Jul 9, 2019
Scrapping Eton will become Labour policy, campaign says
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Jul 9, 2019
Labour activists call to abolish private schools after Boris Johnson’s likely election
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Jul 9, 2019
Abolish Eton: Labour groups aim to strip elite schools of privileges
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Jul 9, 2019
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Jul 4, 2019
Children in care to be helped into private schools under Government scheme
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Jul 4, 2019
Abolishing private schools won't create a meritocracy
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Jul 1, 2019
Don’t blame parents for wanting the best for their kids. Change the private school system instead | Sonia Sodha
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Jun 30, 2019
Private school gets visit from £20m military helicopter at taxpayers' expense
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Jun 28, 2019
Britain’s elites still look different from the society they serve
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Jun 26, 2019
Private schools need phasing out – and here’s how it can be done
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Jun 26, 2019
The Guardian view on social immobility: time to rebalance | Editorial
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Jun 25, 2019
ISC response to “Elitist Britain 2019” report
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Jun 25, 2019
Private schools are a canary in the pensions mineshaft
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Jun 25, 2019
Britain is still ruled by a privately educated elite. Let’s end this culture of deference | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Jun 25, 2019
UK: Privately educated getting five times as many top jobs as the rest of us
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Jun 25, 2019
Elitist Britain – Sutton Trust/Social Mobility Commission report
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Jun 25, 2019
ASCL comment on ‘Elitist Britain’
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Jun 25, 2019
Britain's most powerful people 5 times more likely to go to private school
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Jun 25, 2019
Why are Britain’s most powerful positions still dominated by private school alumni?
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Jun 25, 2019
Elite five times more likely to have private education
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Jun 25, 2019
Britain ‘increasingly divided’ with most influential people five times more likely to have gone to private school
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Jun 25, 2019
More vice-chancellors with Oxbridge educations appointed
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Jun 25, 2019
Britain’s elite still drawn from fee-paying schools
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Jun 25, 2019
Private school and Oxbridge 'take top jobs'
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Jun 25, 2019
Britain’s top jobs still in hands of private school elite, study finds
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Jun 25, 2019
Admissions shake-up call as report reveals lack of diversity in top roles
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Jun 25, 2019
Privately educated elite tightens its grip on politics and the professions
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Jun 25, 2019
Elitism in Britain, 2019
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Jun 24, 2019
Elitist Britain 2019
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Jun 24, 2019
Public anger over private schools | Letters
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Jun 24, 2019
Revealed: Extent of private pupils' careers advantage
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Jun 24, 2019
Academy asks private school parents for £3k donations
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Jun 23, 2019
School bullied my son for telling truth about drugs
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Jun 23, 2019
Boarding school is bad location for Kirstie Allsopp’s kids
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Jun 23, 2019
Scotland: Tax rise ‘will make schools more elite’
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Jun 20, 2019
Private schools 'could close' over plans to scrap charitable relief in Scotland
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Jun 19, 2019
Rates reform could mean Scottish private schools ‘go under
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Jun 19, 2019
Teachers to strike over private school pension withdrawal
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Jun 19, 2019
Scottish private schools 'at risk of closure' if they lose tax breaks
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Jun 19, 2019
A private school gets a castle-library, while we fundraise for public school music lessons | Celina Ribeiro
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Jun 19, 2019
Private schools can serve the public well | Letters
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Jun 17, 2019
Labour targets Scotland's ‘elitist’ private schools
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Jun 16, 2019
Another Etonian leader? Time for Labour to challenge the might of private schools | Robert Verkaik
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Jun 14, 2019
Losing tax relief could kill us, warn small private schools in Scotland
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Jun 13, 2019
Cambridge Uni accepts more Eton grads than black men
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Jun 12, 2019
MSPs meet private schools over plan to axe rates relief
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Jun 11, 2019
Tax private schools and all Scotland suffers, says charities boss
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Jun 9, 2019
‘Abolish Scots private schools for high-class comprehensives’
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Jun 9, 2019
New fund to support cross-sector school partnerships welcomed
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Jun 7, 2019
More cash for state and private school partnerships
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Jun 7, 2019
£200k fund to encourage partnerships with private schools and universities
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Jun 7, 2019
The 7 per cent problem: how to reform private schools
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Jun 5, 2019
Head of prestigious Fettes College in Edinburgh steps down over 'boarding-only' plan
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Jun 4, 2019
Head of Scottish private school quits after just two years
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Jun 4, 2019
Top schools add nothing to grades, says geneticist
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Jun 3, 2019
The Times view on the success of state primary schools: Primary Objectives
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Jun 1, 2019
Gems Education buys Saudi private schools
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May 30, 2019
Pupils at £37,000-a-year private school sit English IGCSE exam only to find they have been taught wrong book
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May 16, 2019
It's time we stopped persecuting Britain's real strugglers: the privately educated | Owen Jones
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May 13, 2019
Fee-paying children get more special needs help
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May 13, 2019
State pupils ‘given boost’ for Oxbridge
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May 13, 2019
Calls for private school head’s sacking for ‘tasteless Holocaust analogy’
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May 12, 2019
Mind your headlines
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May 12, 2019
Head likens criticism of private schools to antisemitic abuse
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May 11, 2019
Head of £12,700-a-term school says private pupils being discriminated against like Jews in Nazi Germany
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May 11, 2019
Private school parents claim their children are being edged out by 'social engineering' as Oxford and Cambridge take in more state pupils
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May 11, 2019
Bias against private school children ‘like antisemitism’ says head as Oxbridge places fall
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May 11, 2019
Private school criticism like 'anti-semitism' says head after Oxbridge places fall
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May 11, 2019
Private school woe over rise of state pupils at Oxbridge
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May 11, 2019
Middle class are seen as sinners, says schools chief
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May 3, 2019
Scotland: Private schools warn fees will rise to keep best staff
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May 1, 2019
Forget private schools, what about inequality in state schools?
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Apr 30, 2019
How all of Wales' private schools compare on fees and results
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Apr 30, 2019
Private schools claim to help the taxpayer. But they serve only the rich | Robert Verkaik
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Apr 29, 2019
Private school heads must become influencers | Libby Purves
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Apr 29, 2019
Jet-set private school chain Inspired Education appoints Rothschild to sell stake
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Apr 28, 2019
Private schools: record fees and 5 other findings
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Apr 26, 2019
Major private school chain quits Teachers’ Pension Scheme
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Apr 26, 2019
Number of UK private school overseas campuses up 23%
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Apr 26, 2019
Scotland: It's only right to stop private school tax breaks
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Apr 26, 2019
Private school fees set for biggest rise in five years after Treasury’s ruling on teacher pensions
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Apr 26, 2019
Private schools save the public £20bn a year, it;s claimed
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Apr 26, 2019
Private schools save taxpayers £20bn a year by educating pupils that ‘would have gone to state schools’
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Apr 26, 2019
Fee‑paying schools ‘save billions for the taxpayer’
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Apr 26, 2019
Private schools offer a resolute riposte but scrutiny will increase
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Apr 26, 2019
Bashing private schools won't bring education equality
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Apr 25, 2019
Private school chaplain 'molested pupil during lesson on how to be posh'
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Apr 24, 2019
End of privatisation of education
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Apr 15, 2019
The school that refused to let Ofsted speak to its pupils
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Apr 11, 2019
Private schools could have 'phased withdrawal' from teacher pensions
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Apr 10, 2019
Scotland: Scrapping of business rates relief for private schools under review
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Apr 9, 2019
Private Islamic school's library books promoted 'hatred' towards gay people
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Mar 28, 2019
£45k-a-year private school warned over ‘serious regulatory failings’
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Mar 28, 2019
Chinese investors buying UK private schools will help keep sector afloat, says ex-Harrow head
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Mar 27, 2019
Scots private schools face £37m bill in move to axe tax breaks
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Mar 27, 2019
Scotland: Private schools to be hit with £37m bill amid plans to remove charity tax relief
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Mar 27, 2019
Scotland: ‘Vindictive’ rate reforms set to cost private schools millions of pounds
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Mar 27, 2019
Ofsted removed LGBT concerns from published report
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Mar 25, 2019
Foreign Office spends £27m of taxpayer cash on private school fees
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Mar 23, 2019
Tackling the damage done to the UK by private schools | Letters
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Mar 20, 2019
Chinese investors ready to snap up struggling private schools
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Mar 20, 2019
IGCSE exam board denies tests are 'easier' than GCSEs as they say private school pupils tend to do better
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Mar 18, 2019
Cambridge International insists iGCSEs won’t change name amid ‘legal’ threat
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Mar 14, 2019
Independent education only marginally boosts income, study suggests
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Mar 11, 2019
Scotland: Private schoolboy accused of racially abusing rugby opponent
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Mar 11, 2019
Further claims of historic abuse at Scottish private school
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Mar 10, 2019
Scotland: Private school head faces abuse allegations in UK
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Mar 8, 2019
Superyachts and private schools: Britain's dirty money problem
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Mar 6, 2019
Elite UK school fees paid via tax haven firms, leak reveals
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Mar 5, 2019
Scotland: Claims of historic sex abuse at top Glasgow Catholic college
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Mar 4, 2019
Private schools should be an 'eccentric choice', says Michael Gove
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Mar 2, 2019
Ex-education secretary Michael Gove wants to abolish private schools by making state ones better
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Mar 1, 2019
The squeezed one-percenters: are they right to feel worried?
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Mar 1, 2019
Review of ‘Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem’
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Feb 27, 2019
Why Britain’s private schools are such a social problem
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Feb 19, 2019
Why Britain’s private schools are such a social problem
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Feb 18, 2019
Scotland: Economists issue dire warning over future of Edinburgh private schools
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Feb 18, 2019
Private schools face £100m raid by Government to fund teacher pensions which could lead to fee rises
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Feb 16, 2019
UK public pays high price for private schools | Letter
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Feb 15, 2019
What to do about Britain’s private school problem?
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Feb 15, 2019
We stand by our book: private education should be reformed
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Feb 14, 2019
‘No frills’ private school founder insists it’s a ‘success story’, despite having 12 pupils
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Feb 13, 2019
Parents sending kids to private school are now caught up in a bitter divide
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Feb 13, 2019
The Guardian view on private schools: motors of unfairness | Editorial
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Feb 12, 2019
Private schooling at the public’s expense | Letters
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Feb 7, 2019
The Malaysian company aiming to resurrect doomed Scots private school
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Feb 6, 2019
Critics take aim at subsidies given to private schools
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Feb 5, 2019
Scotland: Headteacher quits Glasgow private school after three years
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Feb 4, 2019
Private school reform is needed if society is ever to become equal
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Feb 4, 2019
Private school watchdog School Inspection Service closes
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Jan 31, 2019
The 7 per cent problem – how to address the domination of private schools
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Jan 30, 2019
The damage that private schools do to their pupils and to society | Letters
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Jan 28, 2019
Ex-public schoolboys including Prince William ‘adopt mockney accents to appear less posh’
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Jan 27, 2019
Private pupils talk mockney to seem less posh: Harrow's ex-head
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Jan 27, 2019
Eton and ’Arrow boys have gone mockney
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Jan 27, 2019
Private school bursaries are being used to top up fees of middle class children, leading head says
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Jan 25, 2019
Scotland: Private schools contribute £125m to Edinburgh economy, report finds
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Jan 24, 2019
Private school head has 'very brave' advice for parents whose kids are punished
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Jan 13, 2019
Britain’s private school problem: it’s time to talk
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Jan 13, 2019
Is difference between private and state schools £3,200 per pupil?
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Jan 8, 2019
Why private schools are opting out of GCSE and A-level exams | Letters
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Jan 7, 2019
Cut scholarships and fund less well-off pupils instead, says head of £32,000-a-year school
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Jan 7, 2019
Brexit: Top schools eye European growth as financial firms quit London
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Jan 7, 2019
British schools explore EU expansion after Brexit
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Jan 4, 2019
ISC statement: Exam reforms and IGCSEs
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Jan 3, 2019
Former private school chaplain to stand trial for indecent assault
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Jan 2, 2019
Labour demands inquiry into private schools evading GCSE reform
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Dec 30, 2018
Private schools are accused of 'cheating the system' by having pupils sit 'easier' International GCSEs
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Dec 30, 2018
Private schools accused of 'cheating the GCSE system to rig their results'
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Dec 30, 2018
Private schools `cheating GCSE system to boost results´
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Dec 29, 2018
Private schools accused of 'cheating system' with 'easier' GCSE tests
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Dec 29, 2018
Exam reforms boost private pupils in race for universities
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Dec 29, 2018
Private schools accused of ‘cheating GCSE system to get better results’
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Dec 29, 2018
Kate Middleton wants to send Prince George to her old school rather than Eton, friends say
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Dec 27, 2018
Minority media students fight to get a foot in the door: 'I want my voice to be heard'
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Dec 22, 2018
Scotland: Don’t blame private schools for an unfair appeals system
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Dec 21, 2018
Exam appeals ‘tilted in favour of private schools’
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Dec 19, 2018
Private school fees: how much does it cost to send your child to an independent school in Scotland
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Dec 18, 2018
Why are high-flying state school pupils less likely to apply to Oxford or Cambridge than their private school peers?
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Dec 18, 2018
Private schools help social mobility' says new girls’ schools’ leader
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Dec 18, 2018
What did I learn at private school? They should be abolished
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Dec 12, 2018
Caroline Henshaw: Will Brexit hurt UK private schools?
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Dec 12, 2018
Don’t diss private schools over Oxbridge entries
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Dec 11, 2018
Bohemian private school in area of child poverty divides residents
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Dec 11, 2018
VAT on fees would be nail in the coffin for small independent schools
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Dec 11, 2018
Children of top British diplomats sent to elite private schools at the public’s expense
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Dec 9, 2018
Times Letters: Reasons for private schools’ Oxbridge success
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Dec 8, 2018
Private schools are 'socialism in action', conference told
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Dec 7, 2018
Eight top private schools dominate Oxbridge admissions
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Dec 7, 2018
HMC boss: 'Our schools are a bit like socialism in action'
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Dec 6, 2018
'Labour a bigger threat to private schools than Brexit'
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Dec 5, 2018
Private schools to help more children in care
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Dec 4, 2018
Police urge private schools to run Google checks on 'suspect' parents
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Dec 3, 2018
Police urge private schools to run Google checks on 'suspect' parents
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Dec 3, 2018
You must partner state sector to survive,' private schools told
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Nov 30, 2018
'You must partner state sector to survive,' private schools told
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Nov 30, 2018
Private school caps value of Christmas gifts for teachers
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Nov 30, 2018
Scottish private schools worth £260m to economy
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Nov 29, 2018
30% of private school teachers facing budget cuts
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Nov 29, 2018
Millfield boarding school cuts fees and urges others to follow
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Nov 25, 2018
Top state schools close gap on private rivals
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Nov 25, 2018
Top public school plans to cut fees and urges others to follow
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Nov 25, 2018
Public school becomes first to cut fees by 10 per cent amid concerns they are no longer affordable to middle classes
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Nov 25, 2018
Private schools do more for poor than grammars, say heads
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Nov 21, 2018
Private schools are now ‘often more diverse than top state schools', top headteachers claim
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Nov 20, 2018
Bursaries mean private schools 'more diverse' than grammars
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Nov 20, 2018
Almost 1 in 4 private schools fail to meet standards, Ofsted finds
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Nov 20, 2018
Ofsted: 1 in 10 small private schools still failing on safeguarding
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Nov 20, 2018
UK's private/state school wealth gap may be 'biggest in the world'
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Nov 15, 2018
Private school pupils are being recruited by county lines drug gangs, official report warns
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Nov 14, 2018
Taskforce warns of risk to children from 'county lines' gangs
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Nov 14, 2018
Private school pupils being groomed by ‘county lines’ drug gangs, report warns
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Nov 14, 2018
Private school pupils at risk of ‘county lines’ exploitation, warn agencies
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Nov 14, 2018
DfE finally takes action against failing private school
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Nov 13, 2018
Private schools now taking out legal insurance for teachers amid rise in legal action from parents
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Nov 10, 2018
Private school pay rises 'lagging' behind state sector
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Nov 10, 2018
Private school pension pull-out would leave £800m 'hole'
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Nov 9, 2018
New guidance lets private primaries 'edit LGBT people out'
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Nov 7, 2018
Colonel conned army out of £100k in school fees, court martial is told
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Nov 7, 2018
British Army colonel falsely claimed £100,000 of taxpayers' cash to send his children to £38,000-a-year Marlborough College
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Nov 6, 2018
DfE releases guide to partnerships with universities and private schools
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Nov 6, 2018
Ofsted wants to take part in surprise private school inspections
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Nov 6, 2018
Ofsted 'needs more access' to private school inspections
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Amanda Spielman
Damian Hinds
Nov 6, 2018
Ofsted demands greater power to check on private school inspectorates
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Nov 6, 2018
Private schools 'delayed from taking pupils in care’
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Nov 2, 2018
Warning notices issued to 148 private schools
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Nov 2, 2018
Money-laundering crackdown is launched against top private schools, law firms and estate agents in bid to stop £100billion 'McMafia' racket
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Nov 2, 2018
Private school anger at dirty money claim
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Nov 2, 2018
ISC statement outlining schools' duties under money laundering legislation
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Nov 1, 2018
'Private schools, take pupils in care or risk tax'
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Oct 29, 2018
My low-cost private schools could transform Britain
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Oct 28, 2018
DfE unable to say why Eton cheating case removed
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Oct 24, 2018
Scotland: Former pupil sues Strathallan School over ‘bullying to brink of suicide’
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Oct 22, 2018
Private schools told to let local primaries use their swimming pools
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Oct 21, 2018
Public schools told to open their swimming pools to local kids
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Oct 21, 2018
Philip Hammond 'forced to abandon' private school VAT plans
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Oct 20, 2018
The private schools that remain open despite standards warnings
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Oct 20, 2018
The private schools that remain open despite standards warnings
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Oct 20, 2018
The private schools that remain open despite standards warnings
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Oct 20, 2018
USA: Homework for three-year-olds? They’re too young to enter the rat race | Emma Brockes
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Oct 19, 2018
Two pupils only... unless they are from private school, says Co-op in Combe Down, Bath
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Oct 19, 2018
Scotland: Rates reforms ‘may force some private schools out of business’
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Oct 16, 2018
Teachers launch school aimed at middle classes unable to pay ‘greedy’ private school fees
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Oct 15, 2018
Teachers plan new sixth form for middle classes unable to afford private education
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Oct 15, 2018
Teachers set up 'affordable' private school for the middle class
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Oct 15, 2018
Chinese firm buys United Learning's Bournemouth Collegiate
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Oct 14, 2018
Eton head teacher sparks backlash from teachers after banning pupils from using phones
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Oct 13, 2018
Private school cuts pay if pupil numbers dip
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Oct 6, 2018
Claims on school funding face investigation
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Oct 4, 2018
Private school fees in minister's funding claims
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Oct 3, 2018
Private schools 'save taxpayer £3.5 billion'
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Oct 3, 2018
‘Lay off’ parents who scrimp to send their children to private school, says top headteacher
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Oct 2, 2018
Lay off parents who choose private school, head says
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Oct 2, 2018
Private school parents are unfairly criticised by 'virtue flagging' friends, leading headmaster says
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HMC
Oct 1, 2018
Private schools 'can help UK through crippling uncertainty'
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Oct 1, 2018
'Huge demand' for British private schools sees more than 70 now operating abroad
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Oct 1, 2018
More private schools rush to open branches abroad
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Oct 1, 2018
Working together, state and private schools can save education
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Sep 30, 2018
Elite private schools struggling to find expert teachers
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Sep 28, 2018
Top schools call for universities to end unconditional offers
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Sep 28, 2018
Social mobility’s enemies
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Sep 27, 2018
State school students underrepresented in top UK graduate schemes, report finds
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Sep 24, 2018
More than 60% of Oxford University students went to private or grammar school, figures show
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Sep 23, 2018
Letters to the Editor: Public school heads too weak to tackle bullying
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Sep 23, 2018
Ireland: Fertile market for fee-paying schools
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Sep 23, 2018
'Low-cost' schools are an experiment worth backing
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Sep 22, 2018
Mum sparks debate after asking if she should send ‘genius’ state school-educated son to Eton to ‘meet the right people’
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Sep 19, 2018
Anti-public school Labour firebrand John McDonnell gave a secret talk to students…at an exclusive private school
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Sep 17, 2018
‘No frills’ school charges just £52 a week
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Sep 16, 2018
Private schools lure state maths teachers to foreign offshoots
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Sep 16, 2018
Low-cost, no-frills Durham private school attacked by teachers
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Sep 15, 2018
Private school tax grab will threaten teaching jobs, John Swinney warned
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John Swinney
Sep 15, 2018
Schools warned over laundered money
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Sep 15, 2018
Britain's top private schools are warned to make sure parents are not paying fees with 'dirty money'
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Sep 14, 2018
Private schools urged to help dirty money crackdown
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Sep 14, 2018
‘I didn’t choose to go to private school’ and other things privileged people must stop saying
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Sep 14, 2018
£100-a-week ‘no-frills’ private school planned for London
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Sep 14, 2018
Loretto School teacher suspended over ‘inappropriate behaviour’
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Sep 13, 2018
Beggared yourself with school fees? No Jag for you then | Carol Midgley
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Sep 12, 2018
Vinehall School's 'buy your dad a Jag' ad condemned
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Sep 11, 2018
Vinehall School head apologises for 'smug' advert suggesting pupils will become rich enough to 'buy dad a Jaguar'
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Sep 11, 2018
Come to our school and you'll be able to buy your sad dad a Jag!
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Sep 11, 2018
School sorry for ‘buy Dad a Jaguar’ advert
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Sep 11, 2018
Private school head says sorry for ‘misguided’ Volvo vs. Jaguar advert
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Sep 10, 2018
Private school apologises for ‘snobby’ advert about buying dad a Jaguar
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Sep 10, 2018
The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools (podcast with transcript)
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Sep 7, 2018
Private school fees up 49 per cent over 10 years
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Sep 7, 2018
Private schools firm Cognita sold for £2bn
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Sep 5, 2018
Independent schools shun KS2 Sats tests
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Sep 4, 2018
Private primary schools threatened with Eleven Plus ban after they were caught 'coaching' children
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Sep 3, 2018
Police to probe TV Cathy’s claims of abuse at top school
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Sep 3, 2018
Ireland: Yoga classes and top-dollar teachers at new €5m Dublin school
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Sep 3, 2018
‘Posh boys’: How English independent schools still run Britain
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Aug 30, 2018
Is abolishing the private school system the answer to inequality? | Letters
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Aug 28, 2018
Private schools ‘take advantage of easier exams’
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Aug 25, 2018
Private schools' top A-level grades drop to lowest level in eight years, figures show
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Aug 25, 2018
Melissa Benn: The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools
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Aug 24, 2018
The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools
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Aug 24, 2018
Stefflon Don video: North London private school seeks legal advice over 'highly inappropriate' film
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Aug 23, 2018
Top private schools lead the charge in GCSE results
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Aug 23, 2018
Headteacher resigns after rapper Stefflon Don films explicit music video at London private schoof
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Aug 23, 2018
School sorry over explicit video by rapper Stefflon Don
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Aug 23, 2018
Head resigns at leading private school where rapper filmed explicit pop video
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Aug 22, 2018
Top private school is forced to apologise after allowing rapper Stefflon Don to film sexual and drug-filled music video in its grounds
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Aug 22, 2018
Australian study: the expensive truth about private schools and student learning
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Aug 20, 2018
Scotland ‘fails pupils’ as private schools scoop A grades record
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Aug 19, 2018
Private schools' refusal to embrace new GCSE marking system gives pupils major advantage
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Aug 18, 2018
John Swinney under fire for ‘hypocrisy’ over private school tax advice
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Aug 17, 2018
SNP accused of hypocrisy over private school tax break advice
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Aug 17, 2018
Frances Ryan: Private schools don’t act like charities, so let’s strip them of the benefits
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Aug 16, 2018
Private school sports coach jailed for indecent assaults
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Aug 10, 2018
Minister says more private boarding schools should give places to children in care, after Eton and Rugby agree to take youngsters in homes
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Aug 9, 2018
Private schools must boost care places to protect against Labour closures, Tory minister says
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Aug 8, 2018
Private schools should give places to thousands of children in care to fend off attack from Jeremy Corbyn, warns Tory Education Minister
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Aug 8, 2018
Wealthy Russians pull out of Britain’s public schools
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Jul 30, 2018
There is a way to achieve diversity among our leaders – kill off private schools
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Jul 23, 2018
DfE releases 15 more private school warning notices
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Jul 19, 2018
Brexit, austerity, economic woe: it’s time to make private schools pay | Melissa Benn
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Jul 17, 2018
Private school fees in Scotland set to rise by nearly 4% next year
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Jul 17, 2018
Private school overseas 'franchises' are on the rise, report finds
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Jul 16, 2018
Scotland: Private schools put fees up 4% and warn of more rises
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Jul 16, 2018
Ten of the best value private schools in the UK
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Jul 13, 2018
How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik — the case for getting rid of them
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Jul 8, 2018
John McLellan: Closing private schools makes inequality worse
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Jul 7, 2018
Christ's Hospital School teachers guilty of sex abuse
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Jul 5, 2018
Judiciary is still preserve of the privately educated
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Jul 5, 2018
Leading private school brings in make-up experts to teach girls how to apply cosmetics after one pupil said she was suffering from anxiety over her skin
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Jul 1, 2018
Private pupils taking easier GCSEs get more top grades
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Jul 1, 2018
Review: Posh Boys: How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik
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Jun 30, 2018
Twenty-six more private school warning notices published
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Jun 28, 2018
Angry parents slam closure of top private Hindu school and say ‘it's like a smack in the face’
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Jun 28, 2018
‘Low-cost’ private school gets government green light
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Jun 26, 2018
Scotland: Retailers and private schools cry foul after rates reform is brought forward
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Jun 26, 2018
Fears state students could be 'shut out of top universities' after being forced to take new tougher GCSEs
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Jun 24, 2018
Mr and Mrs Posh are still winning the class war
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Jun 24, 2018
Private schools shun tough GCSEs
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Jun 24, 2018
Top girls school ridiculed for Austerity Day lunch that served up baked beans and potatoes
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Jun 22, 2018
£8,000-a-term school criticised for `austerity day´ lunch of baked potatoes
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Jun 22, 2018
Ten of the best value private schools in the UK
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Jun 22, 2018
St Paul's Girls' school slammed for austerity day lunch
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Jun 22, 2018
Top private school holds 'austerity day' with baked potatoes and beans for lunch
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Jun 22, 2018
Civil servants will be quizzed on what school they went to in a drive to increase diversity
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Jun 18, 2018
State-educated judges replace the old school
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Jun 11, 2018
Ireland: Private schools sent ‘identical’ letters to get sport grants
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Jun 11, 2018
Toxic air filters bought by rich private schools as state schools turn to parents to stump up cash
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Jun 9, 2018
Scotland’s private schools eye international expansion as market booms | Chris McCall
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Jun 7, 2018
Scotland’s private schools eye international expansion as market booms
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Jun 6, 2018
What’s the difference between grammar, private and state education and what is Theresa May’s free school expansion?
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Jun 5, 2018
Private schools 'abuse charity status' by giving discounts to richer families
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Jun 3, 2018
What’s the difference between grammar, private and state education and what is Theresa May’s free school expansion?
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May 29, 2018
DfE releases 26 more private school warning notices
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May 24, 2018
I’m against private education but the local Steiner school looks the best option for my son.
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May 24, 2018
Scotland: Private pupils classed as deprived for university
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May 24, 2018
Private schools boss condemns ‘anti-privilege mood’
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May 18, 2018
Private school headteacher sets up fairground in the playground for stressed pupils
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May 17, 2018
Disadvantaged students: DfE to work with private schools
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May 16, 2018
Campaigners say that private schools in Scotland should follow state schools and report all bullying episodes
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May 13, 2018
New private 'grammar school' will cost parents just £52 a week and offer no-frills 'traditional academic education
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May 12, 2018
Private schools will report annually on their work with state schools
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May 11, 2018
DfE drops threat to remove private school tax breaks
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May 11, 2018
Private Christian school under governance investigation
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May 9, 2018
Privileged students should face greater scrutiny despite A-grades
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May 5, 2018
'Greening's comments about Eton show how misunderstood our independent schools are'
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May 4, 2018
‘Choice’ is code for inequality – and it has polluted our education system | Frances Ryan
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May 3, 2018
National Education Union demonstrates against edu-business Pearson’s support for Low-Fee Private Schools
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May 2, 2018
Former boarding school pupils are dominating the top jobs
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May 1, 2018
Justine Greening: Employers should discriminate against Etonians
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May 1, 2018
This isn’t class war. It’s right to treat CVs from old Etonians differently | Gaby Hinsliff
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May 1, 2018
Employers should offer jobs to alumni of underperforming state schools over public school graduates, suggests Justine Greening
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May 1, 2018
Employers should discriminate against Etonians, Greening suggests
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Apr 30, 2018
Anti-Eton activist blasted David Cameron's schooling despite kids' own private education
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Apr 29, 2018
Stowe school cuts fees by £7,000 per year so it's not overrun by oligarchs sons
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Apr 29, 2018
Kent private school seeks unpaid intern for one year’s work
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Apr 28, 2018
Safeguarding, fire safety and segregation: DfE releases 28 new private school warning notices
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Apr 27, 2018
Private school fees reach £17,000 per year on average
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Apr 27, 2018
Private school fees soar to £5,700 a term
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Apr 27, 2018
Average private school fees rise above £17,000 a year for first time
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Apr 27, 2018
Cold war extends to private schools as number of Russian children sent to UK almost halves
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Apr 27, 2018
Private school fees soar to £5,700 a term
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Apr 27, 2018
School fees have doubled in 15 years
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Apr 27, 2018
Private school fees rise again, and 5 more findings from the ISC Census
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Apr 27, 2018
Parents 'forced' to send girls to £10k school because they could not get offers near home
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Apr 23, 2018
Charity Commission steps up safeguarding scrutiny at private schools
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Apr 20, 2018
Scotland: School worker avoids jail for having child rape films
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Apr 19, 2018
Besotted teacher at £32,000-a-year private school who bombarded pupil with messages gets classroom ban
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Apr 16, 2018
Private schools' 'corporate greed' is pricing out middle-class families, former St Pauls' headmaster says
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Apr 14, 2018
DfE spending £100m on sending pupils to independent schools and arts centres
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Apr 10, 2018
Government extends private art school grants, but unions demand funding ‘for all pupils’
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Apr 10, 2018
Private school teachers tire of pushy parents’ unrealistic demands
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Apr 10, 2018
Teachers at private schools are feeling overworked by 'entitled parents'
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Apr 9, 2018
Private school parents think they are 'buying' exam success for their children, teachers' leader says
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Apr 9, 2018
Parents' 'sense of entitlement' at private schools causing 'insane' teacher workload
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Apr 9, 2018
‘Omerta’ code hides private school abuse in Scotland, says author
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Apr 3, 2018
Indian Summer School review – five terrible teens are sent to India’s equivalent of Eton
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Mar 29, 2018
More secret private school warning notices published for first time
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Mar 29, 2018
Forget private school, it’s all in the genes
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Mar 26, 2018
Top Edinburgh school removes ex-head’s portrait amid sex abuse inquiry
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Mar 25, 2018
New partnership deal for two Scottish private schools
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Mar 22, 2018
Owner of school tried to gouge out pupil’s eyes
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Mar 21, 2018
What's it like to work in the civil service if you're working class?
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Mar 16, 2018
Failing private schools to get three months to improve or close
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Mar 14, 2018
Civil service fast stream favours private school applicants, says MP
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Mar 13, 2018
Need to know: Independent school inspections under scrutiny
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Mar 12, 2018
Private schools should adopt a Ucas-style application system, leading headmaster says
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Mar 10, 2018
Private school teacher banned for using racist language
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Mar 9, 2018
Northamptonshire 'racist' teacher banned from profession
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Mar 9, 2018
Academy and private school fined for failing to pay minimum wage
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Mar 9, 2018
British parents 'happier than most about quality of teaching at their child's school'
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Mar 9, 2018
Scotland: ‘Bullied’ pupil’s parents must pay school fees
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Mar 9, 2018
Inspectorate for top private schools broke its own rules, Ofsted warns
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Mar 8, 2018
Private school inspectors are rubber-stamping failing leaders
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Mar 8, 2018
Saving for school fees
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Mar 6, 2018
Skive off school and enjoy sledging, says headmaster
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Mar 1, 2018
Government confirms 638% hike in small private school inspection fees
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Feb 22, 2018
Secretive private school warning notices published for the first time
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Feb 22, 2018
Mollycoddled youth lack grit, says head at elite private school Gresham’s
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Feb 21, 2018
Headteacher sparks backlash after accusing generation 'snowflake' of being 'mollycoddled'
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Feb 20, 2018
Headteacher slams snowflake millennials as ‘entitled, spoilt and molly-coddled’ – and they aren't happy
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Feb 20, 2018
Number of 'inadequate' private schools continues to rise
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Feb 20, 2018
Their parents pay 35k for their education — so why are Rugby School pupils off to prison?
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Feb 15, 2018
Why it pays for a trainee to be posh
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Feb 15, 2018
Gwen Byrom profile: ‘The stereotype of what an independent school is doesn’t help anybody
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Feb 10, 2018
Heller on a National Teaching Service - Freedman on a punitive tax on private schools
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Feb 7, 2018
Two tier charity warning over private schools' rates relief cut
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Feb 7, 2018
State schools often better managed than private schools
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Feb 5, 2018
Are private schools better managed than state schools?
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Feb 1, 2018
Research round-up 29 January 2018
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Jan 29, 2018
Edinburgh private schools criticised for cutting back on means-tested bursaries
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Jan 28, 2018
Head rejects Toby Belfield’s ban on pupil relationships at Ruthin School
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Jan 25, 2018
Ruthin School bans pupils from having relationships
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Jan 24, 2018
Toby Belfield, Britain’s strictest head, targets romance, smoking and Welsh
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Jan 24, 2018
Headteacher at £34,500-a-year public school warns pupils he will give them 'worse references' for university if they have boyfriends or girlfriends
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Jan 23, 2018
Headteacher of leading public school says he will expel pupils who have a boyfriend or girlfriend
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Jan 23, 2018
Headmaster says pupils in relationship will get 'worse university references'
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Jan 23, 2018
Lessons for higher education from private – and quasi-private – schools
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Jan 22, 2018
Top London school plans new wing in underground car park
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Jan 22, 2018
Scotland: Kelvinside school for innovation may fall foul of ‘registered teacher’ rule
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Jan 22, 2018
Poll: Scots want private school charity status axed
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Jan 19, 2018
Scotland: Private schools ‘should lose charity status’
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Jan 19, 2018
I wish I could have afforded to keep my kids at private school
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Jan 18, 2018
Scotland: Private school exodus fear dismissed
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Jan 18, 2018
Private school fee hikes “have not put off parents”, research finds
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Jan 17, 2018
Independent school fees treble but social mix is unchanged
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Jan 17, 2018
Creativity can be taught to anyone. So why are we leaving it to private schools? | Rufus Norris
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Jan 17, 2018
Private school fees treble in 30 years but parents are still paying up
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Jan 17, 2018
Private school fees treble but middle classes get help to pay
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Jan 17, 2018
Head of unregistered private school banned from teaching over safeguarding concerns
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Jan 15, 2018
Private schools find ‘tutor-proof’ selection test
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Jan 14, 2018
Fraudsters are intercepting school fee payments, warns Charity Commission
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Jan 11, 2018
Theresa May's reshuffle increases the proportion of privately educated Cabinet ministers
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Jan 9, 2018
Private school pupils fall for the lure of Harvard
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Jan 8, 2018
Scotland: Tax plea from private schools hit by decline in oil industry
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Jan 8, 2018
Tatler publishes state schools guide for 'people like us'
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Jan 2, 2018
New GSA President Gwen Byrom on how challenging gender stereotypes has helped her family
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Jan 1, 2018
Leading private school uses Greek philosophers to teach pupils how to spot 'fake news'
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Dec 29, 2017
Warning after parents are conned out of thousands by hackers who send fake school bills using a Google app
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Dec 21, 2017
Hackers con parents with fake school bills
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Dec 21, 2017
Social Mobility: stereotypes help no-one, says new GSA President
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Dec 19, 2017
Daily roundup 19 December: Free school meals, private school, and youth zone delay
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Dec 19, 2017
Girls' school bursaries for poorer families are shunned because parents fear daughters won't fit in, says leading headmistress
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Dec 19, 2017
Shed elitist image, private schools told
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Dec 19, 2017
Poorest families are not applying for private school bursaries as they fear children will not fit in, incoming Girls’ School Association president says
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Dec 18, 2017
Private headteacher condemns scrapping of rates relief
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Dec 17, 2017
Scots private school headteacher ‘betrayed’ by SNP rates hike
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Dec 17, 2017
Leader: Taxing private schools won’t raise standards
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Dec 16, 2017
Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman receives 'venomous' threats
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Dec 16, 2017
Ofsted chief receives threats over private faith school criticism
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Dec 16, 2017
Girls should be taught to ask for a pay rise, says school chain boss
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Dec 15, 2017
Ofsted changes inspection report ‘six times’ in fight with dyslexia school
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Dec 15, 2017
Business rates relief for Scottish private schools axed by SNP government
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Dec 15, 2017
Scottish budget 2017: Business rate rise for private schools ‘will be passed to parents’
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Dec 15, 2017
Scotland private schools face splashing £5million a year more in taxes
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Dec 14, 2017
Scottish Budget 2017: Private schools hit with £5m rates hike
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Dec 14, 2017
Leader comment: Axing of private schools’ charitable status a bad move
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Dec 14, 2017
Gyles Brandreth to host the Tes Independent School Awards
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Dec 12, 2017
Scotland: Gordonstoun school insists that Prince Charles liked being there
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Dec 12, 2017
Government infrastructure tsar Lord Adonis calls for levy on private schools
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Dec 9, 2017
Tax private schools to pay state teachers, says Lord Adonis
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Dec 9, 2017
Lord Adonis calls for ban on expelling pupils unless they break the law
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Dec 8, 2017
Ten ways to cut the cost of a private school education
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Dec 8, 2017
Westminster School to set up branches in China to teach Chinese curriculum
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Dec 7, 2017
Westminster School to teach Chinese curriculum in China
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Dec 7, 2017
Westminster to open six schools in China
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Dec 7, 2017
Westminster School to open in China
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Dec 7, 2017
Scotland: Exam remarking fees ‘put private pupils at advantage’
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Dec 6, 2017
Exam appeals system 'loaded in favour of pupils in private schools', says Labour
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Dec 5, 2017
School 'failed to provide toilet paper, soap or drinking water'
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Dec 5, 2017
George Heriot’s head teacher: Foulkes is wrong, our school helps needy
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Dec 5, 2017
Edinburgh private school head accuses George Foulkes of ‘vendetta’
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Dec 5, 2017
Levy on independent schools 'should be set up to bring in more disadvantaged pupils'
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Dec 3, 2017
Private schools ‘must fund poor’
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Dec 3, 2017
Lord Foulkes: Why private schools harm our education system
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Dec 2, 2017
No-frills private school delayed AGAIN
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Dec 2, 2017
Tom Peterkin: Tax hike on private schools will alienate middle class
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Nov 30, 2017
All post-16 pupils should study a vocational course, former Eton head says
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Nov 29, 2017
Former pupils tell inquiry of sexual abuse by priests at Ampleforth College
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Nov 29, 2017
Eton headmaster admits his teachers helped set seven exams sat by his own pupils
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Nov 29, 2017
Eton masters set national exams sat by their pupils
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Nov 29, 2017
Eton teachers help set seven exams taken by its pupils, says headmaster
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Nov 28, 2017
Assessment: The 'worrying' rise in exam malpractice – and four other trends discussed by experts today
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Nov 28, 2017
Eton headmaster admits his teachers help devise 7 exams sat by pupils during inquiry into exam cheating
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Nov 28, 2017
Private schools take 1% of pupils from very disadvantaged backgrounds
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Nov 28, 2017
Scotland: George Watson’s College ‘deflected’ complaints in bullying row
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Nov 27, 2017
Eton headteacher to face MPs' questions over exam malpractice
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Nov 24, 2017
'Sharp decline' in standards at private faith schools, Ofsted finds
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Nov 23, 2017
Growing proportion of private faith schools fail Ofsted inspections
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Nov 23, 2017
Ofsted: Small private schools in ‘stark decline’ – but special schools buck the trend
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Nov 23, 2017
Teacher at London girls' school resigns after claims of sexual abuse
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Nov 23, 2017
Scottish private boarding school unveils Chinese expansion
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Nov 22, 2017
Scotland: MSP Andy Wightman and George Watson’s College escalate bullying row
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Nov 22, 2017
Schools should stop addressing pupils as 'girls' and 'boys', headteachers told
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Nov 21, 2017
Foreign aid bosses slammed by furious MPs for spending taxpayer cash on tablets in African private schools
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Nov 21, 2017
Northern cities beaten to Oxbridge by 12 schools in south
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Nov 21, 2017
Pupils at girls' schools 'more confident' to call out sexual harassment, says president
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Nov 20, 2017
Schools should be wary about using 'neuroscience nonsense' in classroom, academic says
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Nov 20, 2017
Private girls’ schools 'should embrace apprenticeships’
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Nov 20, 2017
East London state primary beats every private school in England to the top of the league tables
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Nov 19, 2017
For now, things may be politically peaceful for independent schools, but trouble lies ahead…'
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Nov 18, 2017
I’m against private schools, but could a new cheap ‘no frills’ option sway me?
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Nov 17, 2017
Private schools to face further hike in inspection fees
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Nov 17, 2017
Scotland: George Watson's College headmaster rejects bulling claims
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Nov 16, 2017
Scotland: Top Edinburgh private school sanctioned after ‘bullied pupil sustained lifelong injuries’
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Nov 16, 2017
Top private school denies welfare risk over bullying
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Nov 15, 2017
Top private school rapped for failing to safeguard pupil against bullies
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Nov 15, 2017
St Paul's Girls' School reveals former pupils have alleged 'sexual abuse'
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Nov 14, 2017
The pushy parents and unmanageable workloads at private schools
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Nov 13, 2017
Small private school leaders don't know how to improve teaching
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Nov 12, 2017
English private schools on alert as Scotland raises tax
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Nov 12, 2017
Holyrood tax on private schools ‘will only make them more elitist’
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Nov 10, 2017
Plans for new ‘network’ of low cost private schools for Scotland
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Nov 9, 2017
£52-a-week new private school ‘based on Easyjet’
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Nov 9, 2017
‘Latin can be saved if private schools share
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Nov 8, 2017
Private schools should join multi-academy trusts, says ISC chair
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Nov 7, 2017
Who’s Who study sheds new light on power of old boy network
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Oct 30, 2017
Boys’ public school dominance over British elite has 'diminished significantly' over time, study finds
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Oct 30, 2017
Former pupils from just nine schools maintain grip on corridors of power
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Oct 30, 2017
Dig is directed at Sarwar over private schools and family firm
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Oct 29, 2017
Ex-CBI chief's backing for £52-a-week Scots private schools
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Oct 21, 2017
Private school scraps end-of-year prizes to avoid upsetting 'sensitive students'
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Oct 21, 2017
No-frills teaching at Scottish private school will cost just £52 a week
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Oct 21, 2017
Are William and Kate planning to shun Eton for George?
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Oct 15, 2017
New Dublin school will charge €24,000 a year
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Oct 15, 2017
Prince George may break royal tradition of single‑sex school
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Oct 15, 2017
'Schools should be exempt from £163m business rates bill'
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Oct 13, 2017
Group of top girls' schools scraps the 11-plus because the exam puts too much stress on children
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Oct 10, 2017
Private schools deceive parents with their 'slick marketing machines', Eton headmaster suggests
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Oct 10, 2017
Headmasters' chairman: Don't sneer at private schools
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Oct 2, 2017
Private schools are vital to state education, says head
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Oct 2, 2017
Heads gathering to discuss 'unreliable' exam grading
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Oct 2, 2017
End 'hostilities' against independent schools, urges HMC chair
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Oct 2, 2017
School allows teenage girl to sleep in boys' boarding house
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Oct 1, 2017
Gender-fluid girl boards with boys
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Oct 1, 2017
Headmistress stops calling pupils ‘girls’ in bid to improve gender inclusivity
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Sep 24, 2017
Head of London girls' school does not call pupils 'girls'
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Sep 24, 2017
Private school in rare move to re-brand as ‘grammar school’
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Sep 24, 2017
Thousands of St Paul’s alumni quizzed on sex abuse
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Sep 24, 2017
Amanda Foreman: public schools shun classic novels
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Sep 24, 2017
Scotland: Pupils switch to private schools over subject limits
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Sep 22, 2017
Private and state schools slump on creative arts GCSEs – but why?
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Sep 21, 2017
Private schoolgirls use ‘emotional barometer’ app to track wellbeing
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Sep 20, 2017
Private school pupils should be taught how lucky they are, says London headteacher
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Sep 19, 2017
Scotland:Boy expelled after just one week at school for turning up to mass high on pills
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Sep 19, 2017
Scotland: Pupils brawl in bare-knuckle ‘fight club’ at £14,000-a-year private school
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Sep 18, 2017
Private schools repeatedly fail school standards but stay open
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Sep 18, 2017
Schools visit homes to prevent the rich from taking bursaries
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Sep 18, 2017
Queen Anne’s School, Caversham, tests 11am start for sleepy teenagers
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Sep 17, 2017
Bullying: our daughter was hounded out of a top boarding school
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Sep 16, 2017
'Posh' BBC removes qualifications from CVs of job applicants
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Sep 15, 2017
Plans to scrap private schools' charitable status ditched
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Sep 14, 2017
U-turn over threat to charitable status of private schools
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Sep 13, 2017
Private schools will keep charitable status
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Sep 13, 2017
The Guardian view on musical education: it needs social harmony | Editorial
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Sep 8, 2017
Scotland: State pupils beat private peers to top medical grades
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Sep 6, 2017
State schools medical students outperform private school peers, study finds
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Sep 5, 2017
Medical students from state schools do better than those who were privately educated
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Sep 5, 2017
This is why private schools in Wales chose to put pupils through England's GCSEs
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Sep 5, 2017
Scotland: It makes little sense for private schools to pay business rates
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Sep 5, 2017
Prince George will be taught to “be kind” at new £17,600-a-year private school
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Sep 4, 2017
Private day school bill hits £150,000
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Sep 3, 2017
Private special schools ‘threatened’ by business rates proposal
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Sep 2, 2017
Guy Evans: how many teachers at top schools are cheating their way to better exam results?
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Sep 2, 2017
School exam rules to be reviewed after cheat row
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Aug 31, 2017
Ofqual to review rules in wake of exam leak allegations
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Aug 31, 2017
Private schools face ‘serious consequences’ from rates blow
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Aug 31, 2017
Ofqual to review rules on teachers setting exams amid Eton cheating scandal
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Aug 31, 2017
Just three independent schools removed from register in three years
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Aug 31, 2017
Former Conservative minister says private schools should lose charitable status
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Aug 30, 2017
Leading private school forces pupils to hand in mobile phones in effort to wean them off 'addiction'
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Aug 30, 2017
School fees for civil servants in jobs abroad cost taxpayers £100m
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Aug 30, 2017
First ‘low-cost’ private school delays its opening
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Aug 29, 2017
Top private school sets up portacabins for £31,000-a-year boarding pupils to live in
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Aug 29, 2017
Taxpayers' £1m-a-year bill to send foreign aid staff's children to top private schools
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Aug 29, 2017
Cardiff Sixth Form College keeps its place as the UK’s top private school for A-levels
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Aug 28, 2017
Let’s stop this ritual procession to university
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Aug 28, 2017
Eton teacher leaves school after leaking exam questions
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Aug 27, 2017
Private schools call in lawyers to teach lessons in sexual consent
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Aug 26, 2017
Top private schools tell pupils to take up a trade
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Aug 26, 2017
Gap for top marks at A-level narrows between state schools and private schools
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Aug 26, 2017
Top schools push pupils away from universities
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Aug 26, 2017
Exam results gap between state schools and private schools is narrowing, figures show
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Aug 25, 2017
Scottish private school heads attack business rates plan
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Aug 23, 2017
Scotland: Private schools rail against rates plan
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Aug 23, 2017
Private schools attack moves to make them pay £5m in business rates
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Aug 23, 2017
Scottish private schools face £5m business rate tax hike
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Aug 22, 2017
Private schools should pay business rates, says Scottish government review
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Aug 22, 2017
Private schools should pay business rates, says Scottish government review
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Aug 22, 2017
Private schools and universities 'should be liable for business rates'
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Aug 22, 2017
Revealed: The rising cost of a Scottish private school education
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Aug 21, 2017
Private schools ‘game the system’ to win Oxbridge places
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Aug 15, 2017
A-levels: Private schools outperform similar state schools on pupil progress
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Aug 14, 2017
State school pupils have 'reduced chance' of winning Oxbridge places as they apply to oversubscribed courses
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Aug 14, 2017
A-level maths is more useful for top university places than private school
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Aug 13, 2017
ISC & GSA response to Tom Richmond’s ‘Comparative analysis of leading private and state schools’
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Aug 11, 2017
ISC response to new report: 'A comparative analysis of leading private schools and state schools'
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Aug 11, 2017
Top comprehensives 'outperform' leading independents on A-level pupil progress
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Aug 11, 2017
Let’s restrict the number of privately educated people in Britain’s elite | Ellie Mae O’Hagan
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Aug 7, 2017
Diversity drive at top universities is failing, as official figures reveal largest ever gap between state and private school students
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Aug 3, 2017
John Prescott: Class ceiling should be on a-gender too
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Jul 30, 2017
Councils open special free schools applications, as more pupils go private
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Jul 27, 2017
Labour frontbencher attacks BBC over privately-educated journalists
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Jul 26, 2017
Private school using a Royal Park as a 'playground' will open for London's super-rich in September
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Jul 21, 2017
Fit for an oligarch: school for the super-rich opens in London's Mayfair
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Jul 21, 2017
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Jul 20, 2017
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Jul 20, 2017
Only two Scottish Tory MPs privately educated as party claims it is open to all
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Jul 17, 2017
Only two of Scotland’s 13 Tory MPs went to fee-paying schools
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Jul 17, 2017
The Guardian view on the 1%: all gain, no pain | Editorial
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Jul 16, 2017
Four former teachers at top private school charged with historic child sex offences
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Jul 13, 2017
Schools that segregate girls from boys will face new inspections, Ofsted tells court
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Jul 13, 2017
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Jul 12, 2017
Public ranks comprehensive schools as best for social mobility
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Jul 12, 2017
Public overwhelmingly backs comprehensives over grammar schools to improve social mobility
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Jul 12, 2017
Lucy Powell MP: Putting social mobility at the heart of government policy means grammar schools need to change
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Jul 11, 2017
Head teacher whose portrait hung at Stewart’s Melville College was abuser
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Jul 10, 2017
Portraits of shame: the abusive heads that ran Edinburgh’s private schools
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Jul 9, 2017
State schools outshine Eton in science A-levels
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Jul 6, 2017
International school jobs will look 'shinier' due to UK education cuts, says expert
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Jul 5, 2017
Private faith school fails Ofsted inspection after putting pupils 'at risk'
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Jul 3, 2017
Free school meal take-up lowest on record, and 4 more census findings
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Jun 29, 2017
London private school at centre of sex abuse claims after second arrest
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Jun 29, 2017
Private Jewish school fails third Ofsted inspection for not teaching LGBT issues
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Jun 26, 2017
Middle-class parents contributing to teen addictions by 'handing over bottles of vodka', warns top therapist
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Jun 26, 2017
Old girls’ club will give private pupils a leg-up
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Jun 26, 2017
Five years’ time?
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Jun 23, 2017
Private religious schools flout equality laws – but remain open
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Jun 23, 2017
Queen's Speech: Your guide to the education policies that survived and those that bit the dust
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Jun 21, 2017
Employers must judge potential over polish
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Jun 21, 2017
The self-serving myths peddled by selective and private schools | Letters
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Jun 19, 2017
I was a poor kid at a wealthy private school. It gave me social mobility, but also a sense of shame
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Jun 17, 2017
Private schools given £520m tax break
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Jun 12, 2017
Private schools to save £522m in tax thanks to charitable status
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Jun 11, 2017
More than half of MPs went to comprehensive schools
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Jun 10, 2017
Influx of new MPs means fewer privately educated members than in previous Parliament
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Jun 9, 2017
32% of male MPs in new Parliament are privately educated, compared with 24% of female MPs
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Jun 9, 2017
Private school with £35,000 yearly fees looks for £3.50-an-hour apprentice to tend grounds
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Jun 9, 2017
What a racket — state pupils miss out on tennis subsidies
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Jun 4, 2017
Senior IOE academics comment on the General Election manifestos
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Jun 1, 2017
Councils set to commit to universal free school meals until 2025
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Jun 1, 2017
Top private school pupils more likely to end up with drug and alcohol addictions, new research reveals
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Jun 1, 2017
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May 30, 2017
Leading schools put touch typing on the timetable to make pupils more employable
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May 29, 2017
Educational disparity in the playground | Brief letters
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May 23, 2017
900,000 children from ‘just about managing’ families hit by Tory free lunch cuts
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May 21, 2017
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May 20, 2017
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May 19, 2017
Tories pledge school cash from cutting free infant meals
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May 18, 2017
Tories say at least 100 private schools must sponsor academies
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May 18, 2017
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May 16, 2017
Labour manifesto: the full list of schools policies
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May 16, 2017
ATL comment on the Labour Party’s manifesto
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May 16, 2017
Highgate School’s plans for gender neutral uniform should be taken up by all schools, charities urge
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May 15, 2017
London private school may let boys wear skirts
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May 15, 2017
School plans to allow boys to wear skirts as more and more pupils question gender identity
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May 14, 2017
Boys could wear skirts at top private school under plan for 'gender neutral' uniform
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May 14, 2017
Skirts for boys as pupils query identity
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May 14, 2017
AP-NORC poll: Most know little about charter schools
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May 13, 2017
Low-cost private schools ‘just waiting’ to enter English market
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May 13, 2017
Vivienne Durham named as Girls' School Association chief
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May 11, 2017
Full list of schools policies in leaked Labour manifesto
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May 11, 2017
Labour and Lib Dems promise billions of pounds for schools
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May 10, 2017
Labour unveils plans for national education service
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May 10, 2017
Corbyn plans to hike corporation tax to 26% to fund spending spree on schools and grants for college students
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May 10, 2017
Labour pledges £25bn schools spending under new National Education Service
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May 9, 2017
Jeremy Corbyn promises to halt Tory school cuts and reduce class sizes in £20bn education manifesto
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May 9, 2017
Top graduate jobs at law firms, banks and consultancies go to pupils from 10 private schools
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May 7, 2017
My elite private education changed me – but not in the way you'd think
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May 6, 2017
Corbyn fails to dish up evidence on free meals as councils admit there is none
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May 5, 2017
Hundreds more disadvantaged children set to go to boarding school after charity merger
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May 4, 2017
Pressure on private school pupils to get good grades is causing self-harm, psychologist says
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May 3, 2017
Mobility in the manifestos
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May 3, 2017
Private schools tout for business with free flights
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May 1, 2017
Private schools now educate more international students abroad than in Britain
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Apr 29, 2017
Scotland: no tax breaks for state schools, says Swinney
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Apr 29, 2017
Private school fees rise again, and 3 more ISC census findings
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Apr 28, 2017
Pupil numbers at British independent 'franchises' rocket – overtaking the number sent to board in the UK from overseas
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Apr 28, 2017
John Swinney urges state and private schools to work together
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Apr 27, 2017
Private schools should offer parents 'thank-yous', says ex-Eton head
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Apr 26, 2017
Academy trusts could engage parents by offering discounted flights, former Eton head suggests
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Apr 26, 2017
Private schools do nothing to improve social mobility | Letters
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Apr 25, 2017
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Apr 24, 2017
Private schools can help social mobility | Letters
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Apr 24, 2017
Dubai: Caveat Emptor - the perils ahead for those investing in for-profit private schools
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Apr 23, 2017
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Apr 21, 2017
Now Malala Yousafzai is a UN Messenger of Peace, she must be an advocate for private schools
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Apr 18, 2017
Free school breakfasts boost progress, study finds
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Apr 10, 2017
Diane Abbott mocked for privately educating her son as Labour plans private school tax
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Apr 7, 2017
‘State sector must learn lessons from private schools to improve’
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Mar 28, 2017
Georgie Elliot: prince to learn ballet
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Mar 26, 2017
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to send Prince George to £5,600 per term London school
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Mar 25, 2017
Former trust boss’s new private school closes after six months
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Mar 25, 2017
Prince George to go to Thomas's School in Battersea
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Mar 24, 2017
Prince George to attend Thomas's Battersea school in London
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Mar 24, 2017
Prince George to attend Thomas's School in Battersea
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Mar 24, 2017
'You went to a grammar school!' commons erupts as PM destroys hypocritical Corbyn
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Mar 22, 2017
Corbyn accuses May of breaking Tory pledge on education funding
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Mar 22, 2017
Theresa May attacks Labour frontbenchers for sending their kids to private school
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Mar 22, 2017
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Mar 20, 2017
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Mar 20, 2017
Bear Grylls: school didn’t give me life skills
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Mar 19, 2017
Private school closes 9 days early for Easter due to cashflow issues
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Mar 17, 2017
A moment that changed me: refusing a place at private school | Maurice McLeod
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Mar 17, 2017
More grammars 'will open up jobs in professions'
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Mar 16, 2017
Mother who couldn't afford private school fees had council worker forge forms to get daughter into top state school, tribunal hears
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Mar 13, 2017
Teacher was sacked after forging documents to help a child gain a place at a primary school
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Mar 13, 2017
Why is there so little social diversity in medicine? | Zara Aziz
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Mar 13, 2017
We must not prejudice disadvantaged students who are privately educated
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Mar 7, 2017
Private school pupils to take 'empathy lessons' after head accuses them of failing to care
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Mar 5, 2017
Private special school places cost £480 million per year
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Mar 4, 2017
Rich foreign families rush to send children to UK private schools since Brexit thanks to falling pound
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Mar 3, 2017
Council launches investigation into benefits of private schools
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Mar 3, 2017
Scotland: private nurseries 'ignored' in trials, campaigners warn
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Mar 3, 2017
Public back subsidising private school places for the poor, poll suggests
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Mar 3, 2017
Bristol University gives a third of scholarships for 'disadvantaged' teens to private school pupils
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Mar 2, 2017
Sex education to be made compulsory in secondary schools
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Mar 1, 2017
Bristol University criticised after 'disadvantaged pupils' scheme offers third of places to private school students
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Mar 1, 2017
Private school head warns he will expel students because school is oversubscribed as he lists misdemeanours pupils will be excluded for
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Feb 28, 2017
Leading private girls' schools to share physics teachers with state sector
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Feb 27, 2017
ISC response to Michael Gove's comment in The Times
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Feb 24, 2017
Gove: Private schools are 'welfare junkies'
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Feb 24, 2017
Private schools 'should have to pay tax' to boost standards of state education, says Michael Gove
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Feb 24, 2017
Private schools 'should have to pay tax' to boost standards of state education, says Michael Gove
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Feb 24, 2017
Businesses snub government pleas to sponsor academies
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Feb 24, 2017
Parents want last single sex state school to admit boys
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Feb 24, 2017
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Feb 24, 2017
Britain’s first cut-price private school will charge parents just £52 a week
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Feb 21, 2017
Proposals for pioneering ‘low cost’ private school in England revealed
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Feb 17, 2017
Private schools rule the roost
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Feb 9, 2017
Boarding school trial for vulnerable pupils scuppered by 'low aspirations'
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Feb 3, 2017
Cambridge intake no longer most privately educated
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Feb 2, 2017
60 private schools to be investigated by child abuse inquiry
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Jan 31, 2017
Eton College seeks to hire clinical psychologist to toughen up boys with resilience programme
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Jan 20, 2017
Private school children are tougher than their state educated peers, study finds
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Jan 18, 2017
Number of Scottish private school pupils at 30 year low
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Jan 12, 2017
Private school sector ‘robust’ despite Brexit uncertainty
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Jan 11, 2017
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Jan 9, 2017
Pupils at £25k-a-year private school 'went on cocaine and alcohol binge' during Tenerife field trip
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Jan 6, 2017
Private schools ‘should lose tax breaks and charitable status’
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Jan 4, 2017
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Jan 4, 2017
Private school’s proposal offering up to 10,000 free places
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Dec 13, 2016
There’s a better way for private schools to help the state sector
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Dec 11, 2016
Private schools offer 10,000 low-income places
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Dec 9, 2016
The state has helped poor pupils into private schools before – did it work?
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Dec 9, 2016
Private schools want £55m funding to offer 10,000 places for low-income pupils
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Dec 9, 2016
Independent schools ask taxpayer to help them fund 10,000 free places for 'lower income' families
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Dec 9, 2016
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Dec 9, 2016
Private schools in England propose 10,000 free places
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Dec 9, 2016
Private schools plan to offer 10,000 free places to children from low-income backgrounds
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Dec 9, 2016
Private schools plan 10,000 free places for low-income pupils
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Dec 9, 2016
What can state schools learn from Eton?
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Dec 1, 2016
Academy chain AET appoints private school boss as CEO
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Nov 30, 2016
TES Independent School Awards: the winners revealed
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Nov 29, 2016
Private school teachers face workload 'burn-out'
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Nov 26, 2016
Stella Creasy: England football team struggling because it has too many privately-educated players
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Nov 22, 2016
State schools 'could ask parents for £500 every year' to boost funds
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Nov 22, 2016
'Old boys' network helps men from private schools gain advantage over women - regardless of qualifications
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Nov 21, 2016
Private schools downplay GCSE grade 9 to ease pressure on 'perfectionist' pupils
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Nov 18, 2016
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Nov 17, 2016
Academic success doesn’t guarantee top earnings for fortysomethings, study finds
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Nov 17, 2016
Private schools 'should receive state cash to educate poor pupils' if grammar schools expand
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Nov 9, 2016
Top Scottish private school appoints first female principal
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Oct 25, 2016
Labour 'rank hypocrisy' - two more MPs against grammars sent children to private schools
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Oct 16, 2016
Private schools spend three times more on each pupil
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Oct 14, 2016
Shami Chakrabarti is an utter hypocrite, blasts Ann Widdecombe
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Oct 12, 2016
Shami Chakrabarti has undermined the education system she argues for | Frances Ryan
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Oct 10, 2016
Private schools can't help comprehensives with guns pointed to their heads, says leading headmaster
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Oct 3, 2016
Joe Spence: Theresa May must allow private schools to act independently to help poor children
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Sep 30, 2016
Secondary school charging £22,500 a year opens in Mayfair
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