Hemdean House School in Reading has announced it will close on 12 July after 165 years as a school.

The principal at Tring Park, an independent school for performing arts, says it isn’t just privileged families that will be affected by rising costs caused by Labour's VAT policy.

Inspired Learning Group has acquired Shebbear College in north Devon from Methodist Independent Schools Trust.

A poll has found that 26% of parents would remove their children from private school if 20% VAT is added to fees.

A Cambridge University scheme designed to help applicants from underrepresented backgrounds such as those “from the lowest socioeconomic groups” may have included children attending feepaying schools,

Independent schools are offering payments or higher salaries to teaching staff in return for their agreement to withdraw from the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

Law firms have warned that independent schools are “being forced” to plan for potential redundancies because of the Labour Party’s tax plans should it win the general election.

The former Ursuline Preparatory School in Wimbledon, Southwest London, has been put on the market, with a guide price of offers in excess of £7 million.

Gordonstoun School in Elgin, Moray has announced plans to invest around £15million on facilities, including a solar farm and a new base for its coastguard service.

Aurora Eccles School in Quidenham, Norfolk, has submitted plans for 72 new overnight rooms.

The independent Lewis Charlton Learning Centre in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, has received a second Ofsted ruling of Inadequate for the second year in succession.

Bickley Park School, an independent preparatory school for boys, is to become co-educational.

The Independent Schools Inspectorate has criticised The Gregg Preparatory School in Southampton over safeguarding procedures following a visit.

95% of independent school leaders expect to increase fees as a result of Labour's tax plans, according to research carried out Censuswide for The Telegraph.

Bromley High School, a girls' independent school located in Bickley, Greater London, announced it is launching an "innovative middle school".

Teachers at Abbey Gate College are going on strike tomorrow following governors’ plans to take them out of the Teachers' Pension Scheme.

Epsom College in Surrey and Prior Park College in Bath have signed up for a ‘Menstrual Cycle Support for Teens’ initiative.

Inspired Learning Group has acquired Derby Grammar School, a selective co-educational independent school for children aged from four to 18.

As a response to Labour’s plans to tax school fees, independent schools are looking further afield to counter the expected drop in UK admissions.

Plans by the Labour Party to impose VAT on independent school fees could lead to unforeseen consequences, according to analysis by the Adam Smith Institute think tank.

The chief executive of the Independent Schools’ Bursars Association has called on Labour to publish specific details of its VAT plans.

Unscrupulous drug dealers have been promoting their ‘high quality’ cannabis for sale via posters on lampposts and trees around Highgate School in north London.

Teachers at The Cathedral School in Llandaff, Cardiff, went on strike last Thursday in a dispute over pay and pensions, and are planning more industrial action this week.

The University of Cambridge will no longer set targets for the proportion of state and independent school pupils it admits to undergraduate degree courses,

The former Belmont School at Holmbury St Mary, near Dorking, Surrey, which closed at the end of last year, has been put on the market with an asking price of £7 million.

Independent education group Wishford Education has acquired Rupert House School in Henley, a nursery and prep school for children aged three to11 years.

Merchant Taylors’ Girls’ School is to merge Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ to create a single, co-educational senior school from September next year.

Most people think it is right for children to attend independent schools and don’t want them to be abolished, a poll reveals.

Drive Preparatory School in Hove has been downgraded to Inadequate following an inspection in November.

Eton College and its state school trust partner Star Academies have published their first joint research report, which focuses on high achievers failing to meet their potential.

Labour’s shadow education minister Helen Hayes has said that the party will not exempt all schools teaching children with special educational needs and disabilities from its VAT plans.

Building works at the new Bedford Greenacre Independent School site at Manton Heights are progressing, following the completion of a multimillion-pound funding deal earlier this month.

St Michael’s School in Bryn, Carmarthenshire, has been named The Telegraph’s best value for money independent school for 2024.

Francis Holland Schools Trust is opening Francis Holland Preparatory School in Chelsea.

A debate yesterday in the House of Commons drew criticism from Conservative members frustrated at Labour’s tax plans for independent school fees.

The prospect of a Labour government levying VAT to school fees could lead to independent schools establishing more satellite schools in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

A plan to save Castle School in Haverfordwest from closure has failed.

ISC's chief executive Julie Robinson says Labour's plans to levy VAT on school fees could threaten the education of children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Newcastle High School for Girls is inviting additional applications for entry into Year 9 after deciding to expand.

The focus on the Labour party’s taxation plans for the independent school sector should it win is increasing as the general election looms closer.

A law firm is urging former pupils abused at Queen Ethelburga’s Collegiate to get in touch to help them launch compensation claims.

Staff at Wellow House School in Nottinghamshire shared concerns about the school’s safeguarding in emails.

Parents of pupils attending Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, London are attempting to stop Nigel Farage from giving a speech at the school.

Philip Britton, head of foundation at Bolton School, has been appointed as the 2025-26 chair of the HMC.

Independent day and boarding school Scarborough College has begun a cricket exchange programme with a top New Zealand school.

All may not be lost for doomed Castle School, a co-educational private school.

Parents who would normally opt for an independent school education are considering a switch to a state supplied grammar school alternative instead.

A former teacher has been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing boys at St Aubyn’s, an independent prep school, in Rottingdean.

Glasgow independent school Hutchesons’ Grammar has become the first Scottish private school to grant union recognition.

Concord College, in Acton Burnell near Shrewsbury, is encountering difficulties with its plans to build a new boarding house,

Castle School, a co-educational private school for children aged three to 16 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire is closing at the end of the academic year,

Wellow House School in Nottinghamshire is failing to meet several requirements according to the Independent Schools Inspectorate.

Children’s services provider Polaris Community has acquired Dale House Independent School and Nursery in Batley, West Yorkshire.

The list of social ills to be vanquished by imposing tax of private school fees has grown yet again.

St Dunstan’s College and Chelsea FC Foundation are partnering to widen access to high-quality sporting experiences across Southeast London.

Sir Keir Starmer had said that funds he will raise from taxing independent school fees will be spent on mental health support for every school in England.

Cathedral schools are “very concerned that if they have to charge 20% on their fees they may no longer be viable".

Eton College has told its 1,350 to stay at home pupils at the start of term because the lavatories have backed up following flooding.

Private schools that have historically enjoyed strong investment will weather the storm of the cost of living crisis, says new report,

The Labour Party will ensure parents will pay VAT on independent school fees, even if they have paid in advance.

The headmaster of private school Ampleforth College has pledged not to pass Labour's threatened tax hike on to parents.

Bill Colley, the former headteacher New School Butterstone, a special needs school that closed in 2018, has launched legal action against the Care Inspectorate.

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Caterham schools has acquired Copthorne Prep School in Sussex,

Belmont School in Dorking, Surrey is closing at the end of this week.

Five men have been arrested and charged in connection with abuse spanning 24 years at Edinburgh Academy.

A 52-year-old teacher from Pembridge Hall School in Notting Hill, West London, has been found dead at a local church.

Private schools in Scotland are more successful than state schools in challenging students’ exam grades.

More than a quarter of all independent schools in England and Wales have withdrawn their staff from the Teachers' Pension Scheme

Special education needs provider Aurora Group has acquired Aurora Ivy Lane School in Wakefield, West Yorkshire,

Almost one in three parents of children attending independent schools struggle to meet the costs.

Olivia Colman has said it is hard to implement domestic violence awareness classes in private schools.

The headmaster of Saint Nicholas School warns parents of children at independent schools face paying thousands more under Labour.

The ISC’s chief executive Julie Robinson says the portrayal of elite schools is damaging the public’s perception of the sector.

Girls’ schools’ leaders have discussed taking on misogyny and the influence of “incel” culture and the “manosphere” community.

Oxford High School’s headteacher Marina Gardiner Legge has encouraged female pupils to “challenge bias” in society.

Angus Bell, who was among pupils suffering abuse at Loretto School, is to sue the school for £1 million.

Labour’s proposals to levy VAT on school fees could hit girls “hardest”, says Girls’ Schools Association's Donna Stevens.

James Dyson has donated £35 million to his alma mater Gresham’s School in Norfolk to build a prep school.

A school bus carrying Warminster School pupils was left on its side following a crash on the A350 east of Trowbridge.

Shareholders of Dulwich College International are in talks for a sale of the school's China-heavy Asia operation.

Former Eton College teacher Jacob Leland has been charged with sexual activity and sexual assault against a pupil.

Merchant Taylors' Girls' School in Crosby, Liverpool has won gold at the European Choir Games.

Eaton House's principal has warned parents that two men in a dark grey van attempted to abduct children last week

Polling shows a majority of the public support the Labour party’s proposal to end the VAT exemption offered to private schools.

Antisemitic graffiti was found yesterday inside a bathroom at Channing School, an independent day school for girls in Highgate, North London

The Economist says taxing private schools "will not fix the biggest issues in schools".

The National Education Union’s General secretary Daniel Kebede has warned that increasing the employer’s contribution to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme is “unacceptable".

Parents of children attending Falcon’s Pre-Preparatory School in Chiswick, West London say they will sue its new owners Inspired Education

Private schools are informing parents that they can save thousands of pounds by paying school fees in advance of Labour introducing them.

A coroner has ruled that a 17-year-old boy at Brooke House College in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, committed suicide.

The Department for Education has announced that the Teachers’ Pension Scheme employer contribution rate will rise by 5% from 1 April next year

Downing-backed Bridges Care and Education, a provider of specialist education and care, has opened two new independent specialist education day schools in Plymouth and Yelverton in Devon.

Antony Oulton, principal of Hulme Grammar School in Oldham has said that Labour’s plans to impose 20% VAT on school fees would “price out” his poorest pupils.

Independent schools will be unable to claim back past VAT receipts under the Labour Party's plans to impose VAT on school fees.

Research with headteachers, bursars and finance managers at UK private schools reveals that 77% are looking to increase their spend over the next two years to invest in facilities and attract the best teachers.

Independent school sector leaders have called on the Labour Party to provide detail of its tax policy.

Teaching unions have warned the Labour Party that charging VAT on school fees could result in some private schoolteachers losing their jobs and schools downgrading their Teacher Pension Scheme offer.

Ofsted has given the go-ahead for Beis Chinuch Lebonos, an independent orthodox Jewish girls’ school in Westcliff-on-Sea,

Not one of the 40 Labour politicians invited to discuss the party's proposed policy on school fees turned up to a fringe event.