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.

Education provider Inspired Learning Group (ILG) has acquired Sunninghill Preparatory School in Dorchester.

Dr Helen Wright warns private girls’ schools will be forced to close or accept boys if Labour charges VAT on fees

Independent schools may have to pay less tax then feared if a Labour government imposes VAT on fees

Labour’s shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson has revealed she hasn’t carried out any “official” visits to independent schools

Rachel Reeves steered away from any mention of taking away charitable status from independent schools in a rabble-rousing speech delivered to Labour's annual conference

Headteachers, bursars and finance managers at UK fee paying private schools are concerned about a potential rise in children leaving their schools because parents can’t afford the fees.

335 private schools have left, or announced they plan to leave, the Teachers’ Pension Scheme since 2018.

Oakley Capital-backed Thomas’s London Day Schools has acquired Richmond Hill campus in West London from the American Institute for Foreign Study.

ighfield and Brookham School has opened a dedicated wellbeing hub.

The Labour Party has abandoned its plans to abolish charitable status for private schools

A 15-year-old schoolgirl on her way to The Old Palace of John Whitgift School, in Croydon, South London was stabbed to death this morning.

The Old Palace of John Whitgift School, a selective independent girls’ school in Croydon, London is to close in August 2025

Falcons Pre-Preparatory School in Chiswick, west London, has informed parents that the school may close.

Headington School and Rye St Antony School, both in Oxford, are merging to become Headington Rye Oxford.

Independent girls' day school The Kingsley School in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, is to go co-educational from September 2025.

Katharine Birbalsingh says private schools are scrapping GCSEs because “they are failing to meet the standards they should”¸

Nord Anglia Education has officially launched Oxford International College Brighton, a new independent day and boarding school,

Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, London, is to drop all GCSEs apart from English and maths

A former deputy headteacher has been banned from teaching after using inappropriate and excessive force towards pupils.

Edinburgh Academy has apologised for “brutal and unrestrained” historic abuse at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.

The Thurlow Educational Trust, which runs Rosemead Preparatory School in Dulwich, south London has been fined £80,000 after a ceiling collapsed.

Partnerships between independent school and the state sector offer little benefit for the state schools involved, a report has claimed.

Eton College is partnering with state school trust Star Academies to open free sixth form colleges in Dudley, Middlesbrough and Oldham

A 14-year-old girl died after falling ill a Christian sports camp at Repton School, a day and boarding school in Derbyshire

Special educational needs provider Northease Manor School in Rodmell, East Sussex is under threat of closure.

Diplomats’ children’s school fees cost £13m

Row over private school fee and holiday cost comparisons

The Welsh government says it intends to amend the current regulations governing independent schools in Wales

Alexander Charles Rallshas been convicted of more than 40 sexual offences against pupils.

Kingswood School has been fined £50,000 after exposing seven children and two staff members to high levels of radioactive radon gas.

Bicker Preparatory School and Early Years closed this week.

Witherslack Group is planning to open a school for primary and secondary pupils near Tonbridge.

Labour’s deputy Angela Rayner declared that private schools are a waste of money and that youngsters can do just as well attending a local comprehensive.

The National Secular Society has warned the Welsh Government that some independent schools are omitting education which conflicts with religious teachings.

The Methodist Independent Schools Trust, which owns Culford School, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, has filed a serious incident report to the Charity Commission.

Demand from buyers and investors at the premium end of the independent school market remained strong in the first half of 2023

Up to 40,000 pupils could be forced to move out of their independent schools if Labour follows through on its plans remove tax exemptions.

Residents of Cornish seaside village Polzeath are preparing to take drastic action to tackle anti-social behaviour from private schoolchilden this summer.

Two eight year-old girls have been killed and seven people, including five children, hurt after a Land Rover crashed into The Study Prep primary school in Wimbledon

UK-based premium private schools operator Dukes Education has acquired Notting Hill Prep in West London.

Teachers at Hutchesons’ Grammar School in Glasgow are taking a further six days of strike action.

Property consultancy Knight Frank’s Education & Charities has been mandated to launch the sale of former Bruton School for Girls.

Teachers at the London Welsh School (Ysgol Gymraeg Llundain) have expressed “worry” for its future after the school roll dropped to just eight.

Teachers at a North London private school have taken strike action and are threatening more disruption if their demands are not met.

Progress Schools Thrapston has retained its Inadequate status following a second Ofsted inspection

Education provider Inspired Learning Group (ILG) has acquired Yateley Manor School.

Russell Tillson, 73, a former head of sixth form at Tonbridge School in Kent, has gone on trial accused of six sexual offences against three pupils.

Teachers at The King’s School Canterbury, went on strike for a day last week, with further industrial action planned, in a dispute over pensions.

Newbury Independent School in Aston, Birmingham, has been criticised by Ofsted after its second inspection in a year.

Officials at The Independent Schools Council described the shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson as “very chippy” in private messages.

Teachers at two private schools in Coventry are taking strike action in a dispute over pay,

Inspired Education has acquired schools operator Alpha Plus Group from DV4, a fund managed by asset manager Delancey.

Dukes Education has received a growth investment from Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), Macquarie, Nomura and a perpetual capital vehicle from KKR.

Three people, including two students, have been hospitalised with multiple serious injuries following an assault at Blundell's School.

Think Tank EDSK has warned in a research paper that there are flaws in Labour Party’s assertion that £1.6 billion could be raised by its policy of removing charitable status and imposing VAT on the independent school sector.

Kilgraston School in Perthshire might be saved from closure after parents and supporters raised £1.2 million.

Kilgraston School in Perthshire will close permanently later this month.

The Independent Schools Council's (ISC) 2023 census has revealed that in January 2023 the average day school fee had reached, £16,656,

Yorston Lodge Preparatory School in Knutsford is closing next month almost 120 years after it opened.

The Boarding Schools’ Association has announced the winners of its annual Supporting Excellence Awards

The Independent Schools Inspectorate has published its new inspection framework and handbook for inspection from September.

Teenager Caitlyn Scott-Lee has been found dead at Wycombe Abbey School, an independent girls' boarding and day school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire,

Eltham College and Blackheath Prep in southeast London are to merge from September.

Glebe House School and Nursery in Hunstanton, Norfolk has been issued with a warning notice by the Department for Education.

Halstead Preparatory School for Girls and St. Andrew’s School are forming a partnership to create a co-ed school.

Private equity firm Oakley Capital has acquired a minority stake in Thomas’s London Day Schools.

Chinese investors are in discussions with Ruthin School in Denbighshire and are believed to be within two to four weeks of completing its purchase. North Wales Live has reported.

Aspects of the Labour Party’s plan to levy VAT on private school fees and make independent schools fully liable for business rates, are being reassessed.

Private schools operator Dukes Education has bought The Institute of Education, a Dublin-based international schools group.

Redcliffe Gardens School in Chelsea is closing at the end of the summer term due to a severe shortage of pupils,

Inspired Learning Group (ILG) has acquired Rookwood School in Andover, Hampshire, which caters to children aged from two to 18 years old.

EIS members at Hutchesons' Grammar School in Glasgow indicated their willingness to take strike action over the school's proposal to remove them from the Scottish Teacher's Pension Scheme.

Research by the Independent Schools Council indicates that Labour's tax plans for independent school fees would leave parents “scrambling” for top state places

Teachers at Hutchesons’ Grammar, an independent school in Glasgow are set to ballot for industrial action over a pension scheme dispute.

Bristol Grammar School’s headmaster Jaideep Barot has been elected chair of HMC for the 2024/25 academic year.

Independent school Charterhouse in Surrey is to open Charterhouse Lagos in Nigeria

Shrewsbury School in Shropshire is partnering with Jagran Social Welfare Society to establish a full co-educational boarding school for pupils aged 11 to 18 in India. 

Loreto Preparatory School in Altricham, Greater Manchester, is to close at the end of the academic year.

Research by the Private Education Policy Forum shows that private schools with charitable status are making record-breaking profits from overseas subsidiaries and satellites,

Berkshire independent boarding school for girls, Downe House, has widened its music scholarship programme with new awards created.

The trustees of the Fosse Bank School in Hildenborough, Kent have announced that the school will close on 24 March.

Richard Eden writing in the Daily Mail has claimed Eton College in Berkshire is considering admitting girls.

Physics teacher Jan Pringle has resigned from independent Eltham College in South London following an incident where he was found to have pushed a pupil.

Cambridge college Gonville & Caius has cut its private school pupil admissions from almost a half to a quarter after changing its admissions policy.

Members of the NASUWT-The Teachers’ Union at the Coventry School Foundation, which includes BKHS Bablake Senior, BKHS Bablake Prep, BKHS King Henry VIII Senior and BKHS King Henry VIII Prep are staging a strike today and tomorrow.

The Serious Fraud Office is seeking to seize a £92,500 donation given by mortgage fraudster Achilleas Kallakis to his daughter’s school, Francis Holland near London’s Regent;s Park.

The head of independent school Epsom College in Surrey was found dead yesterday along with her husband and seven-year-old daughter in a property on school grounds