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Saint Felix School near Southwold, which has become part of Inspired Learning Group - Credit: Saint Felix School A private school near Southwold is to receive a multi-million pound investment as part of a new partnership with an independent schools group. Saint Felix School, in Halesworth Road, Reydon, will join Inspired Learning Group (ILG) on April 30, it has been announced.  As part of the agreement, ILG has promised to upgrade the schools facilities to continue the schools "rich traditi...

Hundreds of independent schools left in dire financial straits by the coronavirus pandemic are being targeted by Chinese investors, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Experts anticipate a feeding frenzy as firms, including some run by high-ranking members of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, seek to expand their influence over Britains education system. Seventeen schools are already owned by Chinese companies, but that number is set to rocket. Amid rising concern about Beijings tentacles reachin...

It was badly damaged during the 2011 floods and it will always play a part in the future of the high school

Premium Content Subscriber only ON plans for any new project or new building at Ipswich State High School there are always two blue marks. They represent where water would have reached in the 1974 and 2011 floods. For principal Simon Riley, the disaster ten years ago is not so much always at the back of his mind but right at the front. Ipswich State High School principal Simon Riley surveys the damage caused by the 2011 flood. “Our masterplan has been configured because of it,” he s...