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Private Education Policy Forum (PEPF) is a think tank focused on reducing inequalities relating to UK private schools and fee-paying education. [email protected]
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Joined September 2019
@StaufenbergJ @rosamundmtaylor @prospect_uk “There is plenty of room for cost savings across the private sector. They have enormous resource advantages over state schools, and there would be plenty of scope for reducing those.”. Our board member Prof Francis Green also quoted here. Is he right?.
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“We don’t have enough media coverage that covers both sides in a balanced way". Our founder @StaufenbergJ quoted by @rosamundmtaylor for @prospect_uk [PAYWALL]. What have you made of the media coverage of the addition of VAT to private school fees?.
prospectmagazine.co.uk
With VAT pushing up school fees, some parents face a stark dilemma about their children’s futures
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“Scarily prevalent”. Weight loss injections are rife at girls' boarding schools, writes Sophia Money-Coutts for @Telegraph [PAYWALL]. Is this a more prevalent problem than in other educational settings?. If so, is it a failure of safeguarding, or culture?.
telegraph.co.uk
Children are now using weight-loss drugs – either by swiping their parents’ credit cards or raiding the fridge. It’s a troubling new trend
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Given the resources they posses, do private schools underperform academically?. Do they infer other, more important advantages?.
The amount private schools achieve with huge advantages has always seemed completely pathetic to me. The amount of e.g. modern and ancient languages, science and maths, programming etc you could teach given very high ability intakes and multiples of state school spend per pupil.
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Is the addition of VAT to fees being used as an excuse for "poor management" of private schools which are closing?. Or has the tax served as a decisive final straw?. If the likely reality is a nuanced combination of the above, how should the policy's impact be evaluated?.
You utter bullshiiting liar. They had a million pounds debt before Labour got in. Badly run , poor management .
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@Journo_Jose @DailyMail "As of the end of July, the level of debt and lack of a realistic path to financial viability mean we have no alternative but to proceed into administration" . @ashac_patel in @BBCNews . How should private schools prevent closure in the current climate?.
bbc.co.uk
Mount St Mary’s College and Barlborough Hall School have closed with immediate effect.
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"From 2015, the schools have faced increasing financial pressures, in line with the wider challenges affecting the independent education sector". @Journo_Jose in @DailyMail . After pressures since 2015, how much weight should be placed on the VAT policy?.
dailymail.co.uk
Mount St Mary's College in Spinkhill, Derbyshire, has closed with immediate effect, saying it can no longer remain financially viable in the face of rising costs and government policy changes.
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The school shut after "mounting financial pressures, including rising operational costs, reduced enrolment, unpaid fees, and the impact of wider economic challenges". @__cunningham in @BBCNews. How should the financial models of private schools change?.
bbc.co.uk
The school says it enters voluntary liquidation over "mounting financial pressures".
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“Parents who are driving to the private schools are going to be people who can afford to pay”. @JamesTaylorLut labels Oxford's proposed congestion charge 'elitist' as it wouldn't limit private school traffic [@MJCEvans1995 for @TheOxfordMail]. Is he right?.
thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
An Oxford City councillor has sparked a debate with a private school near Magdalen Bridge in the city.
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"More like a private schoolboy drinking club than serious professional people". @CHinchliffMP complains about the culture of Westminster [@horton_official for @guardian]. To what extent is 'private school culture' an issue in British politics?.
theguardian.com
Chris Hinchliff says language used is indicative of ‘private schoolboy drinking club’ culture within government
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@poppyeh @jamesbaxterd @bienbutcher @Telegraph How can these statistics shape the debate over private schools catering for students with special needs?.
🧑🎓 Some key stats in the world of private special schools: . - Top-up funding to ind schools up from £900m to £2.4bn in a decade.- Number of private special schools has doubled.- Avg. pupil cost 4x that of state. Great story by @poppyeh. .
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"The private schools get most of their income from British taxpayers, an estimated cost of more than £2.4bn/year". @poppyeh, @jamesbaxterd, and @bienbutcher in @Telegraph [PAYWALL]. How should the government limit profiteering from special needs schools?.
telegraph.co.uk
U2 frontman in line to make money from private equity investment in education
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"The drop in pupils "remains firmly within historical patterns" and "shatters the myth" of a private school exodus.". @KateMcGough and @HarrietAgerholm in @BBCNews . How should this data be interpreted in relation to the impact of the VAT policy?.
bbc.co.uk
Latest school census data says the number of private school pupils has dropped by 1.9% in the last year.
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"Those children have been found places within the district". State school places have been found for 88 children following the closure of Wakefield Independent School after the addition of VAT to fees, report @WakeExpress . Encouraging news?.
wakefieldexpress.co.uk
State school places have been found for 88 children following the closure of a fee-paying independent school, a meeting heard.
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"They will increasingly become the exclusive preserve of the seriously rich". @DailyMail's Tom Utley argues that addition of VAT to private school fees is turning the 'old lie' that they are full of rich kids into a reality. Were they so inclusive before?.
dailymail.co.uk
ON the day 19 years ago when I accepted a job offer from the Daily Mail I took the youngest of our four sons aside and told him that I could at last afford to send him to Dulwich College
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"All this policy has done is target middle-income families". @Telegraph's @pietersnep writes of the "devastating" impact of the addition of VAT to private school fees [PAYWALL]. Do you agree with this assessment of the policy?.
telegraph.co.uk
Shut schools, displaced children and lost communities are immediate results of a damaging policy
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Ofqual have now withdrawn these figures, saying they "significantly overstated the number of students receiving access arrangements". Report: @RichardA for @guardian . Were private schools wrongly undermined by these erroneous statistics?.
theguardian.com
Regulator for England withdraws statistics for students receiving assistance in A-Level and GCSE exams going back to 2014
‘The exams regulator “will take action” if it finds that the higher proportion of private school pupils being given extra time in exams is due to unfairness’. @Eleanor_Busby for @Independent . Is Ofqual right to draw attention to this imbalance?.
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“Ofqual said it would “take action” if it found that the higher proportion of private school pupils being given extra time in exams was due to unfairness.”. @Eleanor_Busby in @PA . How should this be resolved?.
uk.news.yahoo.com
The exams regulator is withdrawing its statistics on access arrangements for GCSE and A-levels from 2014 to 2024 after data issues were found.
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"The next major barrier to opportunity". Private schools are three times more likely than state ones to have a clear strategy on AI, new @suttontrust research suggests. @ruthlucas_ for @SchoolsWeek . How might this new form of inequality be addressed?.
schoolsweek.co.uk
Private schools are three times more likely to have an AI strategy than state, research from the Sutton Trust has found
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