A selective school that charges fees, Approximately 2,500 independent schools, including Hulme, teach 7% of the student body. This minority is the focus of one of Labour’s few openly tax-raising programs.
Labour claims that if it wins, it will eliminate the VAT exemption on fees and subject them to a 20% tax. Labour estimates that this move will raise £1.6 billion, which it says will be used to hire 6,500 teachers in the public sector, which teaches 93% of pupils.
Parents of children enrolled in private schools worry that the rise would be passed on directly, driving some youngsters out, but industry groups assert.
Hulme is a more reasonably priced independent school in the UK, with fees that are comparable to the national average and significantly less than those of Eton and the prime minister’s alma mater, Winchester College. Oldham is one of the poorest places in England.
Tony Oulton, a headteacher with experience in both sides of Britain’s educational divide and a state education, claims that Labour’s approach penalizes parents and misrepresents the majority of private schools.
“Eton, Harrow, and Winchester, three prestigious boarding schools primarily located in the south of England, are not the sector.
