This week our Personal Finance expert Gaynor Pengelly answers your questions and joins forces with Kim Faulkner, Independent Financial Adviser at Keighley based Thompson Faulkner.
Posts Tagged ‘private schools’
Ask Gaynor: This week – How testing for the breast cancer gene can affect your insurance policy, saving for a rainy day and investing for private school fees.
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Big homes, nice cars, luxury holidays… what their friends don’t know is that they’re Britain’s new MIDDLE CLASS POOR
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Like so many middle-class people, I slid into poverty when fees for my work froze or plummeted and the cost of living soared.
Stella McCartney: I’ll pull my children out of private school if they get too posh
Monday, July 19th, 2010The 38-year-old daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney was sent to the local comprehensive in rural East Sussex by her parents who wanted their children to be down to earth.
Private schools must offer free places to poor
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Private schools have been forced to offer free places to poor children for the first time amid fears of closure by the State, it has emerged today.
Middle earners priced out of private education as fees soar
Friday, June 18th, 2010A boom in the number of families on six-figure salaries and a growing tendency for parents to make financial sacrifices for their children’s education is thought to be fuelling the fee rises.
Private pupils are ten times as likely to gain top GSCEs
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Just one in 45 pupils educated at a comprehensive gains five A* grades at GCSE – the benchmark increasingly demanded by Oxbridge universities.
Meet the mother who took her daughter out of top girls’ public school Roedean because she’d spent the fees on plastic surgery
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Rachel’s mother Nileen has spent £200,000 on 53 cosmetic procedures in her desire to look like Egyptian queen Nefertiti.
The cost of raising a child is now £200,000… and that doesn’t include private school fees
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Childcare remains the biggest single expenditure, with parents forking out £55,000 on nursery fees, afterschool clubs and holiday clubs during each child’s youth.
