To no one’s surprise, private schools are losing pupils since the VAT on fees . According to a recently published Independent Schools Council (ISC) survey of 1,150 schools, 81 schools in the UK have closed since July 2024 and nearly 17,000 pupils have left the sector .

What is less expected is that girls’ schools are haemorrhaging pupils at a far faster rate than boys’ schools or co-ed schools. In fact, it’s the boys’ only schools that are faring the least worst, losing 2.7 per cent of their pupils compared to 4.5 per cent among the girls.

Amid talk of toxic masculinity and the sexual harassment in schools exposed by the Everyone’s Invited movement, it might have been anticipated that parents would be doing all that they could to keep their daughters in the safe environs of a p

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