Eleanor Harding
Education Editor at Daily Mail
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1 day ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding
Private school pupil numbers have dipped by 11,000 this year – but Labour still claims its new tax raid on fees has not caused the exodus. Official government figures show numbers at independent schools have taken a disproportionately large hit since fee VAT came in. The data, published yesterday, calls into question Labour’s claim that only 3,000 pupils would leave this year as a result of the policy.
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2 weeks ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Eleanor Harding
Now woke schools teach pupils that Stonehenge was built by black people... while Waterloo and Trafalgar go untaughtBy ELEANOR HARDING Published: 18:28 EDT, 17 May 2025 | Updated: 18:28 EDT, 17 May 2025 Children are being taught that Stonehenge was built by black people and the Roman Emperor Nero married a trans woman as woke narratives increasingly infiltrate schools, according to an education think-tank.
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3 weeks ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding
Average private day school fees have risen by more than a fifth in a year following Labour’s tax raid, new data suggests. Figures from the Independent Schools Council (ISC) show the average fee in January was £7,382 a term – or £22,146 a year. This a 22.6 per cent increase on January last year, when the average termly fee was just £6,021. The dataset, from 1,380 schools, is the first to show the sector-wide impact of Labour’s 20 per cent VAT on fees, which was introduced at the start of this year.
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3 weeks ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding
Childline is reporting a rise in the number of callers with ‘anger issues’ amid ‘growing emotional challenges’ among youngsters today. The charity said it provided 2,895 counselling sessions for children with anger in 2024/25, a six per cent increase on the previous year. Anger issues ranked among the top ten mental health concerns reported by children contacting the service – among boys it was sixth and among girls it was tenth.
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3 weeks ago |
thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding
Britain's largest teaching union has voted to campaign against the Supreme Court ruling on gender, insisting trans women in schools must be allowed to use ladies’ toilets. The Left-wing National Education Union (NEU) resolved on Saturday to advocate for trans teachers to continue to choose toilets according to ‘gender identity’. The judgement, which states a woman is defined by biological sex, effectively means a male-born trans person can be excluded from female-only spaces.
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