Taxes
Private Schools Threaten to Cut Low-Income Pupil Aid Over Labour’s Tax Plan
Some schools say they’ll have to cut bursary programs that help low-income families should the party follow through on charging schools a value-added tax.
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David Morton, the headmaster of King’s School Gloucester, credits a full bursary in the 1980s with setting him up in life — helping him get the grades he needed to study at the University of Cambridge and ultimately become a teacher.
“I have clearly benefited from the independent school system myself and I know how transformational it can be — it had life-changing benefits,” said Morton, 51, whose father was a self-employed architect and mother a nurse, and who attended another of the seven King’s schools — institutions established or re-endowed by Henry VIII in 1541.