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Financial sustainability and community integration: Leadership imperative for independent schools
When financial pressure intensifies, should smaller schools retreat – or should they look to redefine access? At St John’s Priory School, Oxfordshire, a new community partnership revenue model has been launched, seeing 25 new part-scholarship places for local state school pupils to attend the school full-time created. Designed as a proactive response to the current climate, Proprietor of the school, Kane Andrews…
Inclusion or illusion? Children must be at the heart of this SEND reform
With the recent release of the SEND White Paper, Octavia Lemon, SENCo, at Demetae Academy, Staffordshire, offers her thoughts on the planned reforms and why it’s important to not lose sight of the children who it will impact most. The government’s White Paper has triggered immediate reaction across UK news and is dominating discussion across social media. But beneath the political argument of SEND reform lies a simpler truth…
Keeping independent schools safe under Martyn’s Law
Under Martyn’s Law, or the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, operators of public events are required to adopt standardised anti-terrorism safety practices. Martyn’s Law for schools will require senior leaders to reassess and, potentially, enhance existing safety plans…
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The Independent Schools Magazine (ISM) is published nine times a year. It is aimed at decision-makers and opinion-formers throughout the fee-paying independent education sector. It is a mix of news, opinions, ideas and information of interest to professionals in the field.
Read by decision-makers – Governors, Heads, Bursars, Departmental Managers – and reflects news, ideas, influences, and opinions in the independent education sector. A personal copy is mailed to heads and other key personnel in fee-paying independent schools plus opinion formers in governments, political parties and educational associations.
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