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At first glance, Mike Fairclough’s domestic set-up looks much like the cheerful chaos that will be familiar to many families. His three-year-old twin daughters Luna and Star charge around, endlessly changing dressing-up costumes and asking a million questions a minute. His sons Iggy, 16, and Tali, 22, wander around blaring loud music. The difference is … Read more
Headmaster, 41, of £18,000-a-year London private school will come out as gay to his pupils and staff in online assembly tomorrow and says ‘my only regret it not doing it earlier’ Headteacher Nicholas Hewlett plans to tell students and staff at St Dunstan’s College in Catford that he is gay during an online assembly tomorrow … Read more
Headmaster sends parents an angry letter saying they should retrain as TEACHERS after dozens criticised home learning and told staff ‘how to do their jobs’ All schools in Britain are now closed except for the children of key workers The majority of the country’s schoolchildren are now learning online remotely A headmaster said parents had … Read more
A hoodlum who beat up his former headmaster after harbouring a 20-year grudge against him over his school days was back behind bars for drug dealing today. Jermaine Bullen, 37, was locked up indefinitely for public protection in 2010 after setting about Kieran Heakin in an Indian restaurant. He served four years before being freed … Read more
Eton pupil is sent home after sending headmaster letter saying ‘parents, staff and boys have been shocked by your arrogance’ and demanding he RESIGNS Pupil accused the head of ‘arrogance, laziness and utter disregard for the school’ Letter was in response to the dismissal of Will Knowland over provocative video In video lecture, English teacher … Read more
Meet the headmaster of Reykjavik’s Elfschool, where you can learn all about elves and ‘hidden people’ – magical beings that are real for 54% of Icelanders Historian and folklore expert Magnus Skarphedinsson runs the Elfschool Elves, he says, are not an illusion for Icelanders, or for a great many foreigners Mr Skarphedinsson he’s met more … Read more
Body of retired headmaster is exhumed NINE days after being buried by the wrong family after mortuary mix-up Relatives gathered at St Mary’s Church near Carlisle to grieve the wrong man Another Cumbrian man believed to be in his late 80s had been buried instead North Cumbria Integrated Care Foundation said an investigation is underway … Read more
Eton College’s headmaster is leading calls from some of the top private schools in the country to scrap the controversial A-level algorithm that decided A-level results. Simon Henderson said that several of pupils had seen their teacher-assessed grades downgraded by the standardising process, sometimes by more than one grade, ‘and in a way which on … Read more
Former Eton headmaster Eric Anderson, who taught three future Prime Ministers including Boris Johnson, dies aged 83 The former Eton College Head Master Sir Eric Anderson has died at age of 83 Pupils including Boris Johnson and David Cameron taught there during tenure Also worked at the top schools in Scotland – Gordonstoun and Fettes College … Read more
Disgraced headmaster who sent dozens of ‘inappropriate’ Instagram messages to a female student is to open a £12,500-a-year online school Toby Belfield was sacked by Ruthin School in Denbighshire, Wales, in February He had sent Instagram posts to Cat Hughes, 15, giving the pupil ‘nightmares’ Belfield admitted that some of the messages he sent to … Read more