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successful partnership with Benenden School has grown from strength to strength over the last nine years. “There are many mutual benefits which come from the strong leadership in both schools, such as Benenden sixth form students mentoring our Year 11 GCSE students, subject leaders meeting to share expertise and resources and the heads of both schools being on each other’s governing bodies working together to monitor and improve teaching and learning in both schools. “I would strongly encourage other state and independent schools to get involved in partnership, where possible, in the interests of the wellbeing and education of their students as there will be many gains and benefits for the students, schools and for society.” In a report at the end of last year entitled “The Impact of Independent Schools on the UK Economy”, a team of
analysts at Oxford Economics established that, in 2017 alone, independent schools (including those not within Independent Schools Council membership) contributed £13.7 billion to the economy, generating £4.1 billion of annual tax revenues and supporting 303,000 jobs, which is more than the total number of jobs across Liverpool. In addition, the report found that independent schools save the taxpayer £3.5 billion every year by providing places for pupils who could otherwise be expected to take up a place in the state- funded sector. This is enough to build more than 20,000 affordable homes. The ISC says that the total tax impact of ISC schools on its own last year would have been sufficient to fund the annual employment of 108,000 nurses on average full-time pay.
Other key findings from the Oxford Economics report include:
• In 2017, schools that are members of
the ISC’s constituent associations saved the taxpayer £3 billion as a result of pupils not taking up a place at a state maintained school, which is equivalent to 3.5% of total state spending on education in England, Scotland and Wales in that year.
• Had all independent fee-charging schools ceased to exist in the late 1940s, then UK GDP would have been £73 billion lower in 2017—a shortfall of 3.6%. • The 1,300-plus schools represented by the ISC’s associations contributed £11.6 billion to the UK economy in 2017, generating £3.5 billion of annual tax revenues (equivalent to £129 per UK household) and supporting 257,000 jobs. Of the £11.6 billion ISC schools contributed to the economy, non-British pupils at ISC schools supported around £1.8 billion of gross value added in the UK, supporting 39,310 jobs and generating £550 million in annual tax revenues.
Westonbirt Girls School near Tetbury Gloucestershire
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