Law, finance, HR
Explainer: What are the GDST strikes?
Who is involved in the GDST strikes? The Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) is a group of independent girls’ schools…
16th February 2022
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Law, finance, HR
Teachers at GDST schools to strike next week
Teachers from the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST)’s independent schools will go on strike next week to defend their pensions….
4th February 2022
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Law, finance, HR
Independent schools continue to exit TPS
Almost a quarter of the independent schools within the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) in January 2019 have now left, a…
16th December 2021
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Business
Decision to propose changes to teachers’ pensions ‘not taken lightly’, says GDST CEO
As the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) begins consultation on proposed changes to teachers’ pensions across its 23 independent schools,…
25th November 2021
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Law, finance, HR
TPS: ‘watershed’ moment for independent sector, says NEU
The National Education Union (NEU) has passed a motion on the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS), in response to what its…
13th April 2021
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Features
Fees: under the microscope
The last 12 months have brought unique challenges for independent schools and bursars as they aim to balance the income…
3rd March 2021
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Law, finance, HR
TPS a ‘here and now issue’, says bursars association CEO
The chief executive officer of the Independent Schools’ Bursars Association (ISBA) has said the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) is a…
26th November 2020
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Law, finance, HR
TPS: number of independent schools quitting scheme almost doubled since lockdown
The number of independent schools withdrawing from the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) has almost doubled in the last six months,…
18th September 2020
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Comment
No silver lining in McCloud judgement for independent schools
The 2011 Hutton report (a complete structural review of public sector pensions) recommended that all unfunded defined benefit pension schemes…
20th August 2020
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Teachers’ Pension Scheme and independent schools – summer 2020
If you cast your mind back six months, then the world was a very different place. It was pretty much…
17th July 2020
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