Archive: Independent Schools

Public schools threaten legal action

Public schools currently receive concessions worth over £100 million every year.

The head of the Independent Schools Council (ISC) warned today that it may consider legal action against the Charity Commission's new 'means testing' for charitable status.

Public schools could lose charitable status

Best schools urged to mentor underachievers

Private schools gain momentum

Public schools could lose charitable status

Most independent schools, including Eton, Harrow and Winchester, consider their charitable status to be vital for survival.

Independent schools could lose £100 million in tax breaks and be forced to raise their fees following a landmark ruling by the Charity Commission.

'All MPs should send their children to state schools'

MPs are duty-bound to send their children to state schools, according to the chairman of the Commons education and skills committee.

Rough history: MPs and private schools

Labour MPs and private schools have a hate-hate relationship, but that hasn't always stopped them sending their children there.

Private schools 'will suffer' in recession

Private schools may have to close or merge due to the recession, educators were warned today.

Private schools gain momentum

Private school education even more popular

The drift towards private schools in Britain's education system is quickening, with new research showing more parents would prefer to get their children out of the comprehensive system.

MPs to quiz private school heads over charitable status

Private schools told to defend charitable tax breaks

MPs are to quiz private school heads as independent schools are placed under pressure to justify their charitable status.

Best schools urged to mentor underachievers

Govt wants good schools to sponsor academies

The government wants the most successful schools to help those that are failing, claiming such partnerships can produce "huge leaps" in results at the least successful schools.

Private schools 'growing inequality'

More money means better grades at private school

Independent schools' growing superiority over comprehensive schools is pushing inequality in Britain upwards, academics have claimed.

Private schools could drop 'trendy' lessons

Private schools could drop national curriculum

Private schools could abandon the "fashionable" national curriculum for a return to 1950s-style education.

Kelly defends sending son to private school

It emerges Ruth Kelly has sent her child to a private schools

Ruth Kelly has defended her decision to send one of her children to a private school, saying it was taken on "professional advice".

Tories warn of 'education apartheid'

Tories warn exam changes are creating an education apartheid

England is facing an "education apartheid" as private school pupils increasingly study for different exams than those in the state sector, David Willetts has warned.

Peers reject faith school quota plans

House of Lords rejects attempt to impose quotas on faith schools

Peers last night voted down another attempt to force faith schools to take a quota of pupils from non-faith backgrounds.

MPs criticise Brown's school funding pledge

Gordon Brown's pledge to raise state school funding to private levels is criticised

Gordon Brown has been taken to task by MPs over his pledge to raise the level of funding per state school pupil to that of students in private schools.

Ministers announce faith school quotas

Faith schools will have to take a proportion of non-believers

New faith schools will be forced to admit a quarter of their pupils from different backgrounds and religions, the government announced last night.

50 trust school hopefuls announced

Alan Johnson releases names of first schools hoping to become trusts

The government has today named the 50 schools hoping to become self-governing trusts when the controversial education bill comes into force.

Basics do well at GCSE but language entries fall

GCSE results show rise in English and maths but fall in languages entries

The number of students getting a good pass in their maths and English GCSEs has increased slightly this year, despite business concerns about a decline in basic skills.

City academies get mixed results

PWC publishes its third report into the city academy programme

City academies are popular and their performance is improving, but concerns about exclusions and the effect on other schools remains, a new report finds.

University admissions shake-up unveiled

Students will apply for university after A-level results

Students will be able to apply for university after receiving their A-level results, in a radical shake-up of the system announced by the government today.

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