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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 next year, male and female day pupils will be able to join the school in the Sixth Form, with the ...

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, as it received its final instalment, to the tune of £227m. Luckily, Read is experienced in managing ...

December 30, 2020 CWN Editor's 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 are allowed to Sound Off. If you are a current donor, log in to see the comment form; otherwise pleas...

Share The school's 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 which set up the school in the year in which it was founded, 1802. Peter Turner, 80, formerly Fath...

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