Education

Draft guidance for schools on how to support gender-questioning pupils provides ‘more clarity’, but headteachers may still need legal advice, an education lawyer has said

Nicholas Dobson examines the case of a school ski trip, a confiscated mobile phone & a permanent exclusion

A school ski trip, a confiscated phone and an unauthorised hotel-room entry culminated in a pupil’s permanent exclusion. In this week's issue of NLJ, Nicholas Dobson charts how the Court of Appeal upheld the decision despite acknowledged procedural flaws

Government plans to charge 20% VAT on private school fees are lawful, the High Court has held

From January 2025, independent schools will be subject to 20% VAT, leading to much head-scratching by school bursars. Writing in this week’s NLJ, Liz Brownsell, partner & head of charities at Birketts, and Kieran Smith, VAT partner at Crowe UK, look at a variety of options independent schools might consider to make the best of the situation.

With a raft of unwanted changes on the horizon, Liz Brownsell & Kieran Smith explore some of the options available to charitable independent schools

Launched in 2021, Project Rise is now in full swing at several firms and in-house departments, offering talented aspiring solicitors the opportunity to train part-time

Lizzie Hardy reports on a part-time training initiative shaping full-time inclusion

The Law Society has published guidance for Black or minority ethnic students entering into the profession, to coincide with Black History Month

Law school partners with charity to give free assistance to litigants in need