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Francis Holland school gets a fail over poor safeguarding of girls
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Private schools Safeguarding
  • Apr 22, 2022
Hemel Hempstead teachers sent dismissal letters in pension row
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Teachers' pension Private schools Teachers' Pension Scheme Staff dismissal
  • Apr 12, 2022
Private schools could be forced to raise fees
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School fees Private schools
  • Apr 7, 2022
Private school pension deal ends strike
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Private schools Strikes Teachers' pension
  • Mar 16, 2022
NEU pension dispute at Girls' Day School Trust
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Teachers' pension Private schools Girls' schools Strikes
  • 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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Private schools School fees Russia Sanctions Charitable status
  • Mar 8, 2022
Teachers at top girls' school in Wales hold third day of strike action over pensions dispute
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Wales Private schools Girls' schools Teachers' pension
  • Mar 2, 2022
Nottingham Girls' High: Further strike at private girls' school
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Girls' schools Private schools Strikes Teachers' pension
  • Mar 1, 2022
Teacher strike continues after pension deal rejected
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Teachers' pension Private schools Girls' schools Strikes
  • Mar 1, 2022
Northampton High School: More strike action over pensions
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Strikes Teachers' pension Private schools Girls' schools
  • Feb 28, 2022
Russian pupils at UK private schools ‘terrified’ of being ostracised by classmates after Ukraine invasion
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Russia Private schools Ostracism Ukraine Conflict Discrimination
  • Feb 26, 2022
Scotland: SNP to issue private schools with new rules on child protection
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Scotland Private schools Child protection Safeguarding Historical abuse
  • Feb 20, 2022
Dirty cash pays fees at top private schools
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Private schools School fees Embezzlement Money laundering
  • Feb 19, 2022
Labour plan to end private schools’ charitable status ‘would flood state sector with pupils’
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Private schools Charitable status
  • Feb 10, 2022
Girls’ Day School Trust hit with first teacher strike over pensions
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Teachers' pension Strikes Private schools Girls' schools
  • Feb 10, 2022
Expansionist private schools need a lesson in morality
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Private schools International campus Expansion
  • Jan 30, 2022
Independent school teachers back pension strike action
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Private schools Girls' schools Strikes Unions Teachers' pension
  • Jan 28, 2022
Girls’ private schools could strike for the first time over pensions
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Girls' schools Teachers' pension Strikes Private schools
  • Jan 26, 2022
Girls' private schools could strike for the first time over pensions
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Girls' schools Teachers' pension Strikes Private schools
  • Jan 26, 2022
Teachers at 23 private schools vote to strike over pensions
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Strikes Teachers' pension Private schools
  • Jan 26, 2022
GDST vote yes for strike action
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Private schools Girls' schools Teachers' pension Strikes
  • Jan 26, 2022
White British cricketers from private schools 34 times more likely than young Asians to reach elite level
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Private schools Cricket
  • Nov 20, 2021
Nazi Germany was inspired by ‘Fuhrer-like’ British public schools like Eton
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Private schools Germany
  • Nov 17, 2021
Nazis based their elite schools on top British private schools
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Germany Private schools
  • Nov 17, 2021
Nazis used UK public schools like Eton and Harrow as 'model' for education system
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Germany Private schools
  • Nov 17, 2021
Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
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White privilege Public schools Private schools
  • Nov 13, 2021
Scotland: Private school teacher lied about death for a week off
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Scotland Private schools Employment tribunal Bereavement
  • Nov 9, 2021
Westminster School abandons plans for sister sites in China amid concerns about communist curriculum
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Private schools International campus China
  • Nov 3, 2021
Westminster School axes plans for sister college in China
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International campus Private schools China
  • Nov 3, 2021
Westminster School outposts ditched after China crackdown
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Private schools International campus China
  • Nov 3, 2021
Westminster School pulls out of China after Communist Party insists lessons are approved by Beijing
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Private schools International campus China
  • Nov 2, 2021
Spending gap between private and state schools doubles as they spend £6,500 more per pupil
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Education spending School fees School funding Private schools State schools
  • Oct 8, 2021
The pandemic ought to be the turning point in the debate about private schools
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Educational inequality Private schools State schools
  • Sep 30, 2021
Citizenship reforms, digital skills and careers advice: Starmer sets out his plan for schools
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Kier Starmer Private schools
  • Sep 26, 2021
Keir Starmer to pledge end to private schools VAT exemption
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Kier Starmer Private schools Charitable status
  • Sep 25, 2021
Prep teachers stressed by 'intrusive' lockdown parents
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Private schools Parents Remote education
  • Sep 24, 2021
How posh schools work hard to remove any trace of pupils’ Scottishness
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Speech Private schools Scotland
  • Sep 20, 2021
Private school pupils clean desks to tackle Covid
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Covid safety Private schools
  • Sep 6, 2021
Letters: Parents, not fees, give private pupils the edge
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Parents School funding State schools Private schools
  • Aug 29, 2021
Cash is why private schools do best, says state head
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Private schools Educational inequality School funding
  • 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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Grade changes Parents Private schools
  • Aug 14, 2021
Private schools are set to take the lion's share of top A-Level grades this year
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A-levels Grading Results Private schools
  • 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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Private schools China
  • Aug 1, 2021
Private schools pay agents in China £10,000 for each child sent to UK
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China Private schools
  • Aug 1, 2021
Schools lobby Oxbridge for private pupils
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Oxbridge Private schools University admissions
  • Jul 25, 2021
Learn wherever you like, says school
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Private schools
  • Jul 12, 2021
Entrepreneur pays £80,000 so student can go to private school in Wales
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Wales Private schools Disadvantaged pupils
  • Jun 22, 2021
St Paul’s Girls’ School ditches ‘binary’ head girl
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St Paul's Inclusion Private schools
  • Jun 19, 2021
Everyone’s Invited : ‘Matter of concern’ 8 times more private schools listed on anti-sexual harassment site
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Private schools Sexual harassment Sexual abuse Rape culture
  • Jun 15, 2021
‘No frills’ private school racks up £170k loss
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Private schools School finances
  • Jun 11, 2021
Coroner warns private school after two pupil suicides
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Private schools Suicide Safeguarding
  • May 13, 2021
Tes Independent School Awards 2021: the winners
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Independent schools Private schools Boarding schools Awards
  • Apr 30, 2021
Private school teacher took pupils to strip club during ‘educational’ trip to Costa Rica
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Private schools Misconduct
  • Apr 23, 2021
Private schools to cash in on remote lessons
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Private schools Remote education
  • Apr 23, 2021
Roy Liddle: Lay off private schools, Gavin. There’s bad behaviour in comprehensives too
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Gavin Williamson Private schools Behaviour
  • Apr 11, 2021
Musa Okwonga: ‘Boys don’t learn shamelessness at Eton, it is where they perfect it’
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Eton Private schools Independent schools
  • Apr 10, 2021
Dulwich College turns boys into sexual abusers, former pupil claims
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Sexual abuse Misogyny Private schools
  • Mar 28, 2021
How UK schoolgirls finally found voice to tell of sexual abuse
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Sexual harassment Sexual abuse Private schools State schools
  • Mar 28, 2021
Whitehall investigation launched into Britain’s elite schools amid ‘rape culture’ scandal fears
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Rape Sexual abuse Private schools
  • Mar 28, 2021
Call for probe into claims of 'rape culture' at independent schools
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Sexual assault Rape Private schools
  • Mar 27, 2021
Everyone's Invited: Sex abuse claims 'not limited to private schools'
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Sexual abuse Sexual harassment Private schools Girls
  • Mar 27, 2021
Calls for state inspection of private schools after abuse scandals
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Sexual assault Misogyny Private schools
  • Mar 27, 2021
The Chinese are buying into our private schools and we should be grateful
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Chinese Investment Private schools
  • Mar 24, 2021
Private school opens 'female fight club' to teach pupils boardroom skills
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Workplace skills Private schools
  • Mar 20, 2021
Private schools say anonymous reports of sexual abuse put them in 'difficult' position
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Private schools Independent schools Sexual harassment
  • Mar 19, 2021
Private schools chase inner-city ‘drive’
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Private schools Disadvantaged pupils School admissions
  • Mar 19, 2021
Wimbledon private school is a hotbed of sexual violence, letter to head claims
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Private schools Sexual violence Sexual assault Sexual harassment
  • Mar 18, 2021
Scotland: Leading private schools admit failings over abuse of pupils
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Scotland Private schools Historical abuse Safeguarding
  • Mar 17, 2021
'A community of equals': the private school with no fees, set up by a south London teacher
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Private schools School fees
  • Mar 13, 2021
Going private is putting our children’s Oxbridge chances at risk, parents fear
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Private schools Oxbridge
  • Mar 13, 2021
Number of private school tutors paid more than £100,000-a-year soars
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Teachers' pay Private schools
  • Mar 7, 2021
Private pupils shunned by Oxbridge are being driven overseas
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Oxbridge Private schools
  • Feb 28, 2021
Winchester College is to admit girls for first time in its 640-year history
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Private schools Single-sex schools Co-educational schools School admissions
  • Feb 10, 2021
Private schools planning a longer summer term
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School terms Private schools Independent schools
  • Feb 7, 2021
Private schools call for delay to plans to strip them of charitable tax breaks
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Private schools Charitable status Scotland
  • Feb 7, 2021
Winchester College is accused of condoning underage sex
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Private schools Sex education Sexual consent
  • Feb 5, 2021
Surge in British private schools opening in China
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Private schools International campus China
  • Jan 26, 2021
IGCSE exams taken in private schools still going ahead
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Private schools IGCSE HMC Pearson
  • Jan 8, 2021
Private heads 'fuming' after 'buck passed'
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Private schools Assessments Exam cancellations Lockdown
  • Jan 7, 2021
Eton fixed my appeal, says sacked teacher Will Knowland
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Eton Disciplinary action Private schools
  • Jan 7, 2021
Private schools 'bewildered' by Covid test costs U-turn
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Coronavirus Covid testing Private schools School closures
  • Jan 4, 2021
Private school pupils twice as likely to get on to civil service fast track
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Private schools Civil service
  • Jan 3, 2021
Mixed race wife of sacked Eton teacher slams the school's 'wokery'
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Eton Private schools
  • Dec 22, 2020
'Not deliverable': Private schools' Covid test warning
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Coronavirus COVID-19 Private schools Covid testing
  • Dec 21, 2020
'Not deliverable': Private schools' Covid test warning
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Private schools COVID-19 Coronavirus Covid testing
  • Dec 21, 2020
Old Etonians threaten to withhold millions in row over sacked teacher Will Knowland
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Eton Free speech Donations Private schools
  • Dec 21, 2020
DfE's spin on private schools' A-levels gain revealed
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A-levels Grading Results Private schools
  • Dec 14, 2020
Opinion: Private schools - Catherine Bennett on Eton and old Etonians
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Private schools Eton
  • Dec 13, 2020
Roedean 'decolonises' its history syllabus to challenge 'white western narrative'
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Roedean Girls' schools Boarding schools Private schools Black Lives Matter Black history History
  • Dec 12, 2020
Roedean decolonises its lessons
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Roedean Black Lives Matter Black history Decolonisation History Private schools
  • Dec 12, 2020
Home learning frustrations drive parents to private schools
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Home learning Private schools Online learning
  • Dec 11, 2020
London private school head boosts bursaries to admit pupils regardless of their wealth
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Private schools School admissions Bursaries Disadvantaged pupils
  • Dec 1, 2020
800 Etonians in revolt after teacher is sacked for questioning radical feminist dogma on 'toxic masculinity'
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Political correctness Woke Eton Free speech Private schools Boarding schools
  • Nov 29, 2020
Eton students turn on headmaster over teacher's dismissal
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Eton Free speech Misconduct Boarding schools Private schools
  • Nov 28, 2020
Ampleforth College banned from taking new pupils by DfE
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School admissions Safeguarding Ampleforth Private schools Enrolments
  • Nov 27, 2020
Ampleforth College ordered to stop admitting new pupils over safeguarding failures
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Private schools School admissions Safeguarding Ampleforth
  • Nov 27, 2020
Private schools record biggest rise in top A-level grades in England
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Coronavirus Private schools Grading Results A-levels Teacher assessment
  • Nov 26, 2020
Private schools got biggest top A-levels boost after grade U-turn
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Private schools Grading Teacher assessment Predicted grades Coronavirus A-levels
  • Nov 26, 2020
Lockdown has given privately educated children a sporting advantage over state schools
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Coronavirus Lockdown Private schools Sports
  • Nov 15, 2020
Elite private school faces racism claims as ex-pupils allege annual 'slave auction' took place
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Private schools Racism
  • Nov 10, 2020
Private school with ‘culture of racism’ held mock slave auctions, claim former pupils
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Private schools Racism
  • Nov 10, 2020
Give all pupils a laptop, top private schools tell DfE
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Private schools Laptops DfE Online learning
  • Oct 26, 2020
Private schools must do more for low-income families
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Private schools Catchment area Attainment gap Scotland Disadvantaged pupils
  • Sep 30, 2020
Ireland: Private schools ‘subject to bias' in Leaving Cert grade calculations
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Private schools Ireland Leaving Certificate Grading Results Algorithm
  • Sep 13, 2020
Subject-by-subject breakdown suggests private school children were biggest winners from GCSE grade inflation
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GCSEs Results Grading Grade inflation Private schools
  • Aug 20, 2020
The private schools racket is falling apart | Max Hastings
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Private schools
  • Aug 20, 2020
'Drill and kill' for England's state schools while private sector goes progressive
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State schools Private schools Teaching
  • Aug 18, 2020
A-level: Top private schools want teacher grades U-turn
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Private schools A-levels Grading Results Teacher assessment Predicted grades Moderation
  • Aug 17, 2020
A-level results 2020: Private schools see biggest boost in top grades
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A-levels Results Grading Private schools Pupil performance
  • Aug 13, 2020
Demand for private school places leaps after lockdown
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Private schools Coronavirus School places
  • Jul 27, 2020
Demand for private school places surges by 30%
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Private schools School places
  • Jul 26, 2020
Anxious middle-classes look to private schools after coronavirus disruption
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Private schools Social mobility Coronavirus COVID-19 Secondary schools Attainment gap Disadvantaged pupils
  • Jul 26, 2020
Only a zealot would oppose: should the UK nationalise struggling private schools?
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Private schools
  • Jul 18, 2020
Private schools see a surge of interest as parents look for more structured learning
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Private schools School applications
  • 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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School reopening Private schools GCSEs
  • Jul 5, 2020
Private schools could be shut over racism
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Private schools Racism
  • Jul 5, 2020
Private schools accuse ministers of ignoring their offers to provide summer catch-up courses for local children
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Private schools Gavin Williamson
  • Jun 28, 2020
Pandemic promises to be unlikely saviour of ailing private schools
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Coronavirus Private schools
  • Jun 26, 2020
Bullying worse in private schools, new research shows
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Bullying Private schools
  • Jun 25, 2020
Top private schools want to 'decolonise' their curriculum by altering history lessons
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Private schools Decolonise Curriculum Anti-racism
  • Jun 22, 2020
'It’s a basic equality issue': home learning gap between state and private schools
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Home learning Disadvantaged pupils Educational inequality State schools Private schools
  • Jun 19, 2020
More than 250 former pupils accuse top private school of racism
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Racism Private schools
  • Jun 18, 2020
Private schools offer to open up classrooms to state educated children for 'catch-up' lessons this summer
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Coronavirus School reopening Private schools Catch up tuition Summer camp
  • Jun 17, 2020
Private school grounds offered for summer catch-up
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Coronavirus School reopening Private schools Summer schools Catch up tuition
  • Jun 17, 2020
Private schools are offering their buildings and grounds for summer catch-up lessons for 'disadvantaged' state pupils
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Coronavirus Private schools Disadvantaged pupils Catch up tuition Summer schools
  • Jun 17, 2020
Private schools plan to ignore Government advice and open at the start of September 'come what may'
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Coronavirus School reopening Private schools
  • Jun 17, 2020
Private schools set to ignore Government and open in September 'come what may'
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Coronavirus School reopening Private schools
  • Jun 16, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: parents rush to private schools
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Coronavirus Scotland Private schools Home learning Secondary
  • 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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Curriculum Private schools Decolonisation
  • Jun 15, 2020
As 30 private schools face closure - why are some thriving and others failing?
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Coronavirus Private schools School closures School finances
  • Jun 9, 2020
Private schools could be forced to close for good as pandemic impacts funds
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Coronavirus Private schools
  • Jun 6, 2020
Ex-private school director ‘unable’ to repay £150k loan
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Private schools School finances Leaders Accounts
  • Jun 5, 2020
Coronavirus: Private school closures will put pressure on state
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Coronavirus Private schools School closures School finances School fees
  • Jun 5, 2020
Black pupils warn of n-word abuse in UK private schools
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Racism Private schools Racial equality Diversity
  • Jun 2, 2020
When will private schools reopen and can they set their own rules?
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Private schools Independent schools School reopening Coronavirus Prep schools
  • May 22, 2020
When will private schools reopen and can they set their own rules?
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Coronavirus School reopening Private schools
  • May 22, 2020
Fears 30% of private schools will go bust
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Private schools Coronavirus
  • May 8, 2020
Collapsed private school attended by Sarah Ferguson 'demands parents pay £3,900 summer term fees'
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Coronavirus School closures Private schools School fees Administration
  • May 5, 2020
Scotland: Business rates rise for private schools put on hold
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Scotland Coronavirus Private schools Business rates
  • May 4, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: Private schools get reprieve from rates hike to see off crisis
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Coronavirus Scotland Private schools Business rates School finances
  • May 4, 2020
Britain’s private schools warned against fee collusion
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Coronavirus Private schools School fees Collusion Price fixing
  • Apr 29, 2020
ISC response to the Competition and Markets Authority
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Coronavirus Private schools School fees Collusion Price fixing
  • 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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Coronavirus Private schools School reopening
  • Apr 29, 2020
Competition watchdog warns private schools over fee-fixing collusion during coronavirus outbreak
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Coronavirus School closures Private schools School fees Collusion Price fixing
  • Apr 29, 2020
Covid-19: Private schools warned over fees 'collusion'
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Coronavirus School closures Private schools Collusion School fees Price fixing
  • Apr 29, 2020
Why private schools could reopen sooner than state-funded schools
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Coronavirus School reopening Private schools
  • Apr 29, 2020
School's in for summer!
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Coronavirus School closures School holidays Private schools
  • Apr 21, 2020
Private schools accused of exploiting loophole by setting new mock exams to boost predicted grades
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Coronavirus Private schools Mock exams Predicted grades Grading Ofqual
  • Apr 16, 2020
The private schools working to narrow the underprivileged attainment gap this spring
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Coronavirus Private schools Attainment gap Disadvantaged pupils
  • Apr 14, 2020
Crisis offers chance to rethink the role of public schools
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Private schools Sir Anthony Seldon
  • Apr 13, 2020
Pupils held to ‘ransom’ by private school's demand of fees for grades
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Coronavirus Private schools School fees Predicted grades Grading
  • Apr 12, 2020
Private schools’ land targeted for families without gardens
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Private schools Coronavirus
  • Apr 12, 2020
Coronavirus: Chinese private school 'feeding frenzy'
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Coronavirus Private schools Chinese School closures
  • Apr 9, 2020
UK’s elite private schools reject upfront fee cuts
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Coronavirus School closures Private schools School fees
  • Apr 8, 2020
UK private schools feel pandemic squeeze
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Coronavirus School closures Private schools School fees
  • Apr 7, 2020
The three reasons you'll still be paying summer term fees at your private school
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Coronavirus School closures Online learning Private schools School fees
  • Apr 6, 2020
‘Will our pupils ever come back?’ ask private schools
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Coronavirus School closures Private schools School fees School finances
  • Apr 3, 2020
Hundreds private schools 'bust by Christmas'
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Coronavirus Private schools School closures School fees
  • Apr 3, 2020
Coronavirus: Private schools 'wrestling' with fee cuts
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Coronavirus School closures Private schools School fees
  • Apr 1, 2020
Private schools in UK struggling as coronavirus costs bite
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Coronavirus Private schools School fees School finances
  • Apr 1, 2020
Fears that fees will dry up grips the private sector
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Coronavirus School closures Private schools School fees
  • Mar 24, 2020
Private schools may offer parents partial refunds and freeze fees
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Coronavirus COVID-19 Private schools School fees School closures
  • Mar 22, 2020
Coronavirus: Private schools' plea to parents over fees
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Coronavirus COVID-19 Private schools ISC
  • Mar 22, 2020
Private schools’ £100m rates relief at risk
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Private schools Charitable status Independent schools
  • Mar 14, 2020
Help us nationalise more private schools, head tells DfE
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Private schools
  • Mar 11, 2020
More private school teachers to strike over pensions
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Private schools Teachers Strikes Pensions TPS
  • Mar 3, 2020
Strikes hit private schools as teachers down chalks over threat to pensions
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Private schools Teachers' pay Teachers' Pension Scheme
  • Mar 1, 2020
Podcast: The private schools hoarding millions
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Private schools School finances Surpluses Podcast
  • Feb 28, 2020
Private schools with the highest surpluses revealed
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Private schools School finances Surpluses
  • Feb 28, 2020
Carshalton Beeches bowlers can see Seaton House School girls undressing, court told
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Safeguarding Private schools
  • Feb 27, 2020
More private school teacher pensions strikes
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Private schools Teachers Strikes Pensions TPS
  • Feb 11, 2020
Want to survive, private schools? Then improve society
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Private schools
  • Feb 11, 2020
Scottish private schools to pay full business rates
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Private schools Business rates 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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Private schools China Health Quarantine
  • Feb 3, 2020
Will the Tories turn on 'elitist' independent schools?
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Independent schools Private schools Conservatives
  • Feb 2, 2020
Was my son rejected by Oxford because he went to a private school?
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Oxford University University admissions University offers Private schools
  • Jan 30, 2020
Why would private schools get to dictate who is ‘suitable’ to go to university? | Nathalie Olah
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University admissions Private schools University access Widening participation Disadvantaged
  • Jan 30, 2020
Education less elitist, but we still have a way to go...
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Elitist University admissions University access Widening participation Private schools Disadvantaged
  • Jan 29, 2020
ISC statement: 'Transforming opportunity in higher education' report from the OfS
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University admissions Private schools Disadvantaged students Widening participation University access
  • Jan 29, 2020
Top unis agree disadvantaged pupils admissions targets
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Disadvantaged students University admissions Private schools Widening access Discrimination
  • Jan 29, 2020
Plans to boost disadvantaged university students could ‘discriminate’ against better-off pupils, private schools say
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Disadvantaged students University admissions Private schools Widening access
  • Jan 29, 2020
Education experts warn of bid to boost numbers of disadvantaged students getting to Oxbridge
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Widening access University admissions Private schools Discrimination
  • Jan 29, 2020
Private schools criticise plans to get more poor students into university
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Private schools Disadvantaged students University admissions Widening participation Discrimination
  • Jan 29, 2020
Middle-class pupils will be squeezed out of Oxbridge, says Office for Students
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University admissions Disadvantaged students Private schools
  • Jan 29, 2020
Concerns Labour put off 'baddie' private school parents
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Jess Phillips Private schools
  • Jan 20, 2020
Review reveals scale of abuse scandal at London private school
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Sexual abuse Historical abuse Private schools
  • Jan 13, 2020
Private school fees 2020: the cost of sending a child to an independent school in Scotland
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Scotland Private schools School fees
  • Jan 7, 2020
Private school teacher pension strike threat
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Pensions Private schools Strikes Unions Teachers' Pension Scheme
  • Jan 6, 2020
Top schools defend rejecting bursary for white boys
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Donations Private schools Racism
  • Dec 31, 2019
Private schools defend refusal of £1m donation to help poor white boys
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Private schools Donations
  • Dec 30, 2019
Elite schools refuse to accept £1m gift after donor says it can only be spent on white boys
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Donations Private schools
  • Dec 30, 2019
£1m scholarship donations for white pupils ‘snubbed by English private schools’
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Private schools Donations
  • Dec 30, 2019
Steep rise in warning notices for private schools
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Private schools School performance Warning notices
  • Dec 16, 2019
Should private schools breathe a sigh of relief?
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Private schools
  • Dec 13, 2019
Scottish private schools and rates relief
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Scotland Private schools Business rates
  • Dec 11, 2019
The private school parents who are paying twice over in the new educational arms race
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Private schools School fees Private tutoring
  • Nov 29, 2019
More small private schools receive top Ofsted grades, but 1 in 10 still 'inadequate'
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Small schools Private schools School performance Ofsted rating
  • Nov 27, 2019
Bust 'rich boys in top hats' myth, private schools told
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Private schools Elitism
  • Nov 25, 2019
Labour’s radical education plan could swamp state schools with 135k pupils
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Politics Election Private schools Pupil numbers State schools
  • Nov 22, 2019
Labour hasn't thought through its private school policy
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Private schools Politics Election
  • Nov 22, 2019
Labour Party manifesto savaged by leading British analysts - ‘Unrealistic empty promises’
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Politics Election Private schools
  • Nov 15, 2019
Chaplain at top Methodist school quits after saying gay and lesbian people should stay single
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Chaplain Private schools Homophobia
  • Nov 13, 2019
School chaplain resigns after suggesting gay people should stay single
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Chaplain Homophobia Private schools
  • Nov 12, 2019
Pre-U exams used as A-level alternatives are being scrapped
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£45k-a-year private school warned over ‘serious regulatory failings’
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Chinese investors buying UK private schools will help keep sector afloat, says ex-Harrow head
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Scots private schools face £37m bill in move to axe tax breaks
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Scotland: Private schools to be hit with £37m bill amid plans to remove charity tax relief
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Scotland: ‘Vindictive’ rate reforms set to cost private schools millions of pounds
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Ofsted removed LGBT concerns from published report
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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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IGCSE exam board denies tests are 'easier' than GCSEs as they say private school pupils tend to do better
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Cambridge International insists iGCSEs won’t change name amid ‘legal’ threat
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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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Further claims of historic abuse at Scottish private school
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Scotland: Private school head faces abuse allegations in UK
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Superyachts and private schools: Britain's dirty money problem
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Elite UK school fees paid via tax haven firms, leak reveals
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Scotland: Claims of historic sex abuse at top Glasgow Catholic college
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Private schools should be an 'eccentric choice', says Michael Gove
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Ex-education secretary Michael Gove wants to abolish private schools by making state ones better
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The squeezed one-percenters: are they right to feel worried?
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Review of ‘Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem’
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Scotland: Economists issue dire warning over future of Edinburgh private schools
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Private schools face £100m raid by Government to fund teacher pensions which could lead to fee rises
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UK public pays high price for private schools | Letter
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What to do about Britain’s private school problem?
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We stand by our book: private education should be reformed
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‘No frills’ private school founder insists it’s a ‘success story’, despite having 12 pupils
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Parents sending kids to private school are now caught up in a bitter divide
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Private schooling at the public’s expense | Letters
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Critics take aim at subsidies given to private schools
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Scotland: Headteacher quits Glasgow private school after three years
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Private school watchdog School Inspection Service closes
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The 7 per cent problem – how to address the domination of private schools
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The damage that private schools do to their pupils and to society | Letters
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Ex-public schoolboys including Prince William ‘adopt mockney accents to appear less posh’
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Private pupils talk mockney to seem less posh: Harrow's ex-head
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Eton and ’Arrow boys have gone mockney
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Private school bursaries are being used to top up fees of middle class children, leading head says
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Scotland: Private schools contribute £125m to Edinburgh economy, report finds
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Private school head has 'very brave' advice for parents whose kids are punished
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Britain’s private school problem: it’s time to talk
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Why private schools are opting out of GCSE and A-level exams | Letters
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Cut scholarships and fund less well-off pupils instead, says head of £32,000-a-year school
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Brexit: Top schools eye European growth as financial firms quit London
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British schools explore EU expansion after Brexit
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Former private school chaplain to stand trial for indecent assault
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Labour demands inquiry into private schools evading GCSE reform
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Private schools are accused of 'cheating the system' by having pupils sit 'easier' International GCSEs
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Private schools accused of 'cheating the GCSE system to rig their results'
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Private schools `cheating GCSE system to boost results´
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Private schools accused of 'cheating system' with 'easier' GCSE tests
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Exam reforms boost private pupils in race for universities
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Private schools accused of ‘cheating GCSE system to get better results’
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Kate Middleton wants to send Prince George to her old school rather than Eton, friends say
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Minority media students fight to get a foot in the door: 'I want my voice to be heard'
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Scotland: Don’t blame private schools for an unfair appeals system
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Exam appeals ‘tilted in favour of private schools’
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Private school fees: how much does it cost to send your child to an independent school in Scotland
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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
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What did I learn at private school? They should be abolished
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Caroline Henshaw: Will Brexit hurt UK private schools?
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Don’t diss private schools over Oxbridge entries
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Bohemian private school in area of child poverty divides residents
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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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Private schools are 'socialism in action', conference told
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Eight top private schools dominate Oxbridge admissions
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HMC boss: 'Our schools are a bit like socialism in action'
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'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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Police urge private schools to run Google checks on 'suspect' parents
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Police urge private schools to run Google checks on 'suspect' parents
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You must partner state sector to survive,' private schools told
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'You must partner state sector to survive,' private schools told
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Private school caps value of Christmas gifts for teachers
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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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Top public school plans to cut fees and urges others to follow
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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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Private schools are now ‘often more diverse than top state schools', top headteachers claim
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Bursaries mean private schools 'more diverse' than grammars
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Almost 1 in 4 private schools fail to meet standards, Ofsted finds
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Ofsted: 1 in 10 small private schools still failing on safeguarding
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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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Taskforce warns of risk to children from 'county lines' gangs
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Private school pupils being groomed by ‘county lines’ drug gangs, report warns
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Private school pupils at risk of ‘county lines’ exploitation, warn agencies
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DfE finally takes action against failing private school
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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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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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Colonel conned army out of £100k in school fees, court martial is told
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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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Ofsted wants to take part in surprise private school inspections
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Ofsted demands greater power to check on private school inspectorates
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Private schools 'delayed from taking pupils in care’
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Warning notices issued to 148 private schools
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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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Private school anger at dirty money claim
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ISC statement outlining schools' duties under money laundering legislation
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'Private schools, take pupils in care or risk tax'
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DfE unable to say why Eton cheating case removed
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Scotland: Former pupil sues Strathallan School over ‘bullying to brink of suicide’
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Private schools told to let local primaries use their swimming pools
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Public schools told to open their swimming pools to local kids
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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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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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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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Teachers plan new sixth form for middle classes unable to afford private education
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Teachers set up 'affordable' private school for the middle class
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Chinese firm buys United Learning's Bournemouth Collegiate
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Eton head teacher sparks backlash from teachers after banning pupils from using phones
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Private school cuts pay if pupil numbers dip
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Claims on school funding face investigation
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Private school fees in minister's funding claims
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Private schools 'save taxpayer £3.5 billion'
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‘Lay off’ parents who scrimp to send their children to private school, says top headteacher
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Lay off parents who choose private school, head says
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Private school parents are unfairly criticised by 'virtue flagging' friends, leading headmaster says
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Private schools 'can help UK through crippling uncertainty'
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'Huge demand' for British private schools sees more than 70 now operating abroad
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More private schools rush to open branches abroad
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Working together, state and private schools can save education
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  • Sep 30, 2018
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Top schools call for universities to end unconditional offers
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State school students underrepresented in top UK graduate schemes, report finds
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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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Ireland: Fertile market for fee-paying schools
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'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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Private schools lure state maths teachers to foreign offshoots
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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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Schools warned over laundered money
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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
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School sorry for ‘buy Dad a Jaguar’ advert
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Private school head says sorry for ‘misguided’ Volvo vs. Jaguar advert
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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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Independent schools shun KS2 Sats tests
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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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Head resigns at leading private school where rapper filmed explicit pop video
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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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Eton Private schools Headteachers Exams Malpractice Education Committee
  • 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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London private school at centre of sex abuse claims after second arrest
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Private Jewish school fails third Ofsted inspection for not teaching LGBT issues
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Middle-class parents contributing to teen addictions by 'handing over bottles of vodka', warns top therapist
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Private schools given £520m tax break
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Private schools to save £522m in tax thanks to charitable status
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More than half of MPs went to comprehensive schools
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900,000 children from ‘just about managing’ families hit by Tory free lunch cuts
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Tories pledge school cash from cutting free infant meals
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Tories say at least 100 private schools must sponsor academies
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Labour manifesto pledges £25bn package for education
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Highgate School’s plans for gender neutral uniform should be taken up by all schools, charities urge
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London private school may let boys wear skirts
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Boys could wear skirts at top private school under plan for 'gender neutral' uniform
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Vivienne Durham named as Girls' School Association chief
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Full list of schools policies in leaked Labour manifesto
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Corbyn plans to hike corporation tax to 26% to fund spending spree on schools and grants for college students
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Jeremy Corbyn promises to halt Tory school cuts and reduce class sizes in £20bn education manifesto
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Scotland: no tax breaks for state schools, says Swinney
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