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  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    UK private schools face VAT charge from January 2025

    Treasury says tax will be applied to payments made from Monday on terms starting next year

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  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Education
    Councils ‘struggle to cope’ with rising cost of special educational needs

    Attainment of children with disabilities in England has flatlined or fallen over past decade, according to study

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  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    UK private schools warn of ‘race to the bottom’ over VAT policy

    Labour estimates cutting tax perk will raise up to £1.5bn to fund state institutions

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    State schools have enough space for exodus of private pupils

    Labour’s VAT school plan would not overstretch state class sizes in England, data show

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  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Will the election leave you better off?

    Both Labour and the Tories have released their manifestos — which will have the biggest impact on your personal finances?

  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
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    Labour urged to clarify when parents would pay VAT on private school fees

    Opposition party’s failure to lay out a proposed timetable is ‘hugely frustrating’, says independent sector

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  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    More effort needed on financial literacy in the UK

    The education system is falling short in teaching this vital life skill

    View of a primary school child’s hands  using coloured cubes to study maths in a school
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    UK primary school children should have better financial literacy education, say MPs

    Calls for review of current maths curriculum to expand ‘the provision and relevance’ of financial education

    Pupils work on a maths problem  in a classroom
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    In education, some targets are better than others

    Focusing on fewer goals may drive excellence more effectively than pursuing a lot of them

    Illustration of a student standing in front of a classroom blackboard with white concentric circles drawn on it. A teacher is using a ruler to point at the blackboard
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    FT readers respond
    FT readers respond: private school fees

    Commenters discuss the latest plans to tax fee-paying schools in the UK — join the debate

  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Private schools bolster advance payment schemes ahead of Labour tax changes

    Experts say HMRC could challenge some advance fee schemes

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  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    Low T-levels uptake in England prompts calls for urgent reform of qualification

    Flagship skills qualification drew only 1% of 16- to 17-year-old students in 2022

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  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
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    Labour to impose VAT on boarding as well as private school fees

    Move by main opposition party will dash hopes of many tax advisers who had been hoping for exemption

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  • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
    Funds axed for teacher recruitment scheme triggering backlash

    Teachers and MPs hit out at decision to defund Now Teach in midst of staffing ‘crisis’

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  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    Shriti Vadera
    Shakespeare helps brush up on important skills in schools

    Arts organisations badly need a model for donors to understand what works in education — we now have one

    RSC’s approach to teaching Shakespeare in the classroom
  • Monday, 15 April, 2024
    Financial literacy
    Only 1% of UK primary schoolteachers think pupils have ‘adequate’ financial literacy

    Campaigners warn that confidence in basic numeracy is at a low level among youngsters

    A primary school maths class
  • Sunday, 7 April, 2024
    News in-depthEducation
    Looming rise in student numbers sparks calls for skills reform in England

    Experts warn provision of technical qualifications must be expanded to accommodate jump in school-leavers

    An apprentice works on pressurised piping at the Bridgwater & Taunton college
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    Financial literacy
    Financial education in England’s schools a ‘pyrrhic victory’, Martin Lewis says

    Consumer champion tells MPs resources were pulled from private providers after subject’s 2014 addition to curriculum

    Screen grab of Martin in black and white pullover
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    David Thomas
    Maths underachievement is a blight on social mobility

    Tens of thousands of children are veering off-track during their transition from primary to secondary school

    Schoolchildren sit an exam. Maths graduates can expect a £500,000 lifetime earnings premium relative to other graduates
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Labour’s school fees VAT threat sends a chill through parents

    600,000 UK children are educated privately. How would families cope with a 20 per cent tax?

  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    News in-depth
    English private schools focus on recruiting overseas as Labour VAT hit looms

    Independent school leaders move to shore up their finances ahead of general election

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  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Private school fees: how would you react to Labour’s VAT charge?

    FT Money seeks readers’ views

    Students carry bags and books at Royal High School Bath
  • Sunday, 7 January, 2024
    Education
    Ministers aim to create register of ‘missing children’ in England before election

    New bill to be put forward to tackle sharp decline in school attendance

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  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
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    Labour explored retroactive tax on private school fees

    Headmasters say some parents are paying for years of education upfront to avoid being caught by potential measure

    Students raising their hands in class at Royal High School Bath
  • Tuesday, 2 January, 2024
    Aveek Bhattacharya
    How to heal the great education divide in UK politics

    There are deep differences in identity and social values

    Students sit and write on paper in neat rows of desks
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