Some Scottish independent schools offer English qualifications, making it more difficult for pupils to move to state schools during exam years
Parents have claimed that children studying these qualifications will be worst affected if they cannot afford uplifted fees and decide to transfer them into Scottish state schools instead, as they will have to catch up with a new curriculum mid-exam cycle.The Government has insisted it will introduce 20 per cent VAT on private schools from 1 January, despite calls from the private sector and education unions to delay the policy until September 2025.
Her son has just started the GCSE year at Merchiston Castle School, an all-boys independent day and boarding school on the outskirts of Edinburgh. Ms Gardiner said her options are either to “homeschool the English system” or send her son south to England, meaning the family would have to move house. Students at Lomond School, a private day and boarding school in Helensburgh, on the west coast of Scotland, study Nationals in years 10 and 11 but the IB in sixth form.
SCIS added that pupils at private schools that follow Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland also face “having their education disrupted” because there are fewer years where it is possible to easily transfer to the state sector. Mr Hutton, of the SLS union, which represents private and state schools, reassured parents saying that transferring between Nationals and GCSEs should not pose a major issue.
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