It "made rich students exhibit more egalitarian preferences, and be substantially more generous towards other students" How much relevance could this have for future reform to British private schools? A PEPF research explainer by Prof. Francis Green 👇 https://t.co/LxgjAA2Ls1

"The growing costs - which still have to be met by Stockton Council - have risen way above amounts provided to mainstream schools to run units educating children with SEND" @garethlightfoot in @TeessideLive How can this be resolved? https://t.co/r7DYIFslw4

"Smith said the fact one in five of all secondary state schools in the UK will take part represented an "amazing take up" and a "step in the right direction"." @TimothyAbraham in @BBCNews How can the govt, ECBs, charities and schools improve access? https://t.co/GQHbVMnl4g

‘Labour can’t say if private school tax raid has funded any new teachers’ claims @GuidoFawkes. Is this a fair point, or is it too soon to be drawing conclusions given the amount of time needed for training etc? https://t.co/x3ztmkYUSb

"Rather than causing parents to pull children out of private schools midstream [...] the tax may primarily deter would-be new entrants to the sector." @AmberDellar in @instituteforgov How should this change the debate over the impact of VAT? https://t.co/ytGyByExFq

The Curriculum review "will mean that increasingly the study of foreign languages will be centred in private schools and the children of middle class parents who can afford tutors" @EleanorHarding in @DailyMail How should this issue be resolved? https://t.co/Csl5PhKdeK

The @DailyMail claims that the ‘threat of criminals using public schools as money laundering hubs has existed for years’. Are they right, and could schools have done more to avert this? https://t.co/DECy4MdK5t

"A much more complicated story" @stell_garrett for @heraldscotland on why the true impact of the addition of VAT to private school fees is so difficult to calculate [PAYWALL] Should both sides of the debate proceed with caution in drawing conclusions? https://t.co/7MOPKxDwft

"The explosion in private tutoring fuels an increasingly one-sided education arms race, enabling privileged families not only to retain but also [...] to justify their unassailable positions at the top of society." @Lem_Exeter for @LSEblogs Thoughts? https://t.co/7JXHY0HxTc

"The staff might be lovely, lovely people, but you are not there with someone who unconditionally loves you,” she says, “and as a child, that is what you need" Julie Henry in @Telegraph [£] What role should boarding schools play in educating our nation? https://t.co/hzSEBiMJPH

@guardian The tutor would 'harness their child's "innate curiosity and capacity for absorption" to immerse him in "British culture, values, and subtleties"' Indicative of underlying cultural assumptions at British private schools more broadly? Report in @SkyNews: https://t.co/BctZf2yDg5

"It is important that [his] education, even at the early years stage, starts to prepare him for this kind of life" Richard Adams in @guardian How much does this reveal how private education can be used to provide a 'kind of life', beyond an education? https://t.co/8KLcpXZSCR

"Labour’s private school VAT raid is on track to raise more revenue than forecast after schools burdened middle-class families with higher fee rises than expected" @pietersnep in @Telegraph Does this suggest that VAT's impact has been overstated? https://t.co/y0mc7RtD5h

‘Smaller faith schools would be particularly vulnerable to the education tax’ claims the Catholic Church in the @Telegraph (paywall) Genuine concern for education or self interest, given the resources of the church? https://t.co/ndOmEBJTx4

"We committed to a strategy aimed at increasing enrolment including extended hours, an enriched curriculum, and enhanced marketing efforts." @JamesMcCarthy97 in @BelfastLive How much do private schools overstate the role of VAT in such statements? https://t.co/hVqJRw2XRA

The @suttontrust “has warned of a “double disadvantage” for children with SEND from poorer families, who “are less able to navigate the system than more affluent parents”.” @samanthajbooth in @SchoolsWeek How do we bridge this divide most effectively? https://t.co/hDP90gc65T

"A pupil in Cambridgeshire, meanwhile, travelled 48 miles to and from school every day in an ambulance at a cost of £66,500 a year" @poppyeh in @Telegraph Do such stories underline the need to prioritise improving SEND provision in local state schools? https://t.co/R1qOycKjX7

‘We’ve been inundated’ claim European boarding schools following VAT on UK private school fees. Is this a risk to the sector, or will it encourage the opening of more branches of UK private schools overseas? https://t.co/98AMqYefVq

Tax expert @DanNeidle has questioned these figures, calling them "bogus" What do you make of his analysis? Is he right? https://t.co/ZN4XWmeeCR

The MoD "paid £1,019,000 in day school allowance in north Wales for 83 children of service personnel in 2024-2025 and £942,000 for 79 children in 2023-24" to allow students to be taught exclusively in English. Alun Jones in @BBCNews A good use of money? https://t.co/BNwlk3TueJ