Vat on Independent school fees?

[Manc in London]

University students next up on the Reeves and Starmer hit list.

Well, the culture war BS has made the situation far worse for universities with it being more difficult for overseas students to study here. Someone else now has to make up for the shortfall in income. Some Tories will be happy as it means reducing the chances of oiks getting a university education.

 

[west didsblue]

Don't know what you are seeing but my 2 children and their friends all early 20s seem to be having a great lfe and most things better than they were for me in the late 70s early 80s.

Yep, mine too. The biggest difference between then and now is how difficult it is to get on the housing ladder. Resigned to have to give them a significant advance on their inheritance to enable them to buy somewhere half decent. It’s sad that most people will be forced to spend most of their lives lining a landlord’s pocket.

 

[Jimmieblue]

Don't know what you are seeing but my 2 children and their friends all early 20s seem to be having a great lfe and most things better than they were for me in the late 70s early 80s.

Suppose what I am seeing is, yes, the young ones today all seem to be having great lives, I quite agree. Compared to your generation, which I suspect is our two children’s generation, it seems loads better which in turn was better than our generation.
However today’s 20 year olds have probably already experienced all those things it took it look us years to experience. I haven’t yet made my mind up whether that’s good thing or not. There is so much mental illness around all of which is not due to Covid.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Once overseas students were limited, tuition fees rising for U.K. students was inevitable.

Most student loans aren’t repaid anyway, so it won’t affect many.

It'll affect all of us, because we're the ones that will have to repay it.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

It’s sad that most people will be forced to spend most of their lives lining a landlord’s pocket.

Nah, they'll all be ever so grateful that these plucky investors have 'provided' so much great housing for them to choose from.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Today the Telegraph reports 2,500 kids have applied to join State Schools from fee paying schools.
At the end of June the same paper said that figure would be 224,000.
Do you see how this works?

 

[Manc in London]

Today the Telegraph reports 2,500 kids have applied to join State Schools from fee paying schools.
At the end of June the same paper said that figure would be 224,000.
Do you see how this works?

:)

Would be interesting to know how this differs from the average number of children who go from private to state each year. I would have thought it would likely be higher than 2,500 when you account for changing economic circumstances of families, moving home etc..