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The modernisation agenda aims to have the first girl boarders admitted in 2024 9 February 2021 • 7:28pm The issue of whether to teach girls at the £41,709-a-year school has been a matter of debate for over a hundred years   Credit: Christopher Pillitz/Corbis Historical  It is one of the country’s last bastions of all boys’ boarding schools. But Winchester College is to admit girls and day pupils for the first time in its 640-year history, as part of a “modernisation agenda”. From ...

By Lyndsey Cambridge2020-12-04T14:36:00+00:00 Former Nisa CEO Nick Read was tasked with making the Post Office commercially viable. First, he’s had to deal with a legal battle and a global pandemic When Nick Read joined the Post Office as CEO last year, he had a clear mission: to ensure it was commercially viable without government subsidies. That’s no small task. For the majority of its 350-year history, the Post Office has relied on public funding. Last month marked the end of that era, a...

December 30, 2020 CWN Editors Note: In November, the UK Department of Education banned Ampleforth College from accepting new students after an inspection found “very serious” failures related to safeguarding children from sexual abuse. The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.   Sound Off! CatholicCulture.org supporters weigh in. All comments are moderated. To lighten our editing burden, only current donors ar...

Share The schools statement said: The failings of the past have been well documented. We have expressed our profound regret and sorrow and will continue to do so. Our past has been the major driver in a fundamental transformation over the past two years. We are under new leadership, at both operational and trustee level, with a professionalised safeguarding team. It added that the school had new management and had severed organisational ties with Ampleforth Abbey, the Benedictine monastery whic...

One of England’s most famous Catholic boarding schools, which has been surrounded by abuse scandals for years, has accepted it has “very serious” safeguarding failings as it fights to stave off

A VOLUNTEER-LED group is inspiring youngsters to jump from the classroom to the cricket pitch. The Scarborough & Ryedale Cricket Development Group (SRCDG), chaired by John Green, is offering free coaching for six weeks, as part of school curriculum or an after-school programme. The North East Yorkshire World Cup 2019 Legacy scheme, set up by the group in 2019, provides coaching for children to enhance skills, improve health and fitness and build a stronger relationship with the game. Pa...