Welcome to the Winter 2025 edition of Independent 黑料福利网, packed with useful and inspiring articles for all those working in UK independent schools.
Highlights of this first edition of the year:
- Luke Ramsden from explores how AI can help schools analyse the data they hold on their students in order to improve pastoral care.
- Our writer Zoe MacDougall talks to Robin Fletcher about the work of the and the challenges facing our boarding schools today.
- Alex Hutchinson, chair of the Girls鈥 Schools Association, celebrates the organisation鈥檚 role in promoting and prioritising girls鈥 education and challenges the Government to join a discussion on what comes next.
- Expert Louise Brenlund introduces the key proposed changes to workers鈥 rights and urges schools to consider the implications for employers.
- Independent 黑料福利网 talks to the to find out how they are minimising fee increases by maximising commercial income streams.
- says that there is still much we don鈥檛 fully comprehend about this game-changing development.
- Rachel Hadley Leonard writes about how a 鈥渂ack to basics鈥 marketing approach has benefited , in London.
- Kate Love, director of development at , unpacks how her school approaches philanthropy as a “demonstration of its values in action”.
- Andrew Lewer explains why he believes VAT on fees and other recent measures could reduce social mobility, limit partnership working and make schools more 鈥渆xclusive鈥.
