How city's 'overcrowded' state schools will cope with an influx from the independent sector
More outdoor classes and off-campus teaching amid warnings VAT on school fees will see 2000 Lothians pupils switch from private institutions
It wasn’t the day of reckoning that parents at the Capital’s biggest private school had been expecting.
The prospect of a new Labour Government imposing VAT at 20% on school fees had been causing some anxiety for months, but this had nothing to do with Sir Keir Starmer, writes Euan McGrory.
The news that dropped into their in…
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