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A former Wisbech Grammar School pupil said he feels “immensely proud and privileged” to become the school’s next headmaster.

A former Wisbech Grammar School pupil said he feels “immensely proud and privileged” to become the school’s next headmaster.

ABOUT 6.5 per cent of British children are educated privately, and those pupils need teachers. But without the automatic protection of the National Agreement on Pay and Conditions of Service — the “Burgundy Book” — those teachers can be especially vulnerable.  When private schools are restructured, jobs can be lost and terms and conditions of employment subject to detriment. While there is a live debate on the left about even the existence of these businesses, the argument is not with the teachers and education support staff who work for them. The NASUWT organises across the inde...

Operating theatre nurses’ national one-day pay strike in France; Port Ravenna dockers in Italy ready to strike to block transport of military hardware for use against Gaza; national warning strikes by retail workers across Germany over pay; Stoppages at some UK schools and Liverpool University

Philip Larkin will be ‘turning in his grave’ over a recent decision to merge his former school with a rival institution, it was claimed last night. The poet, who attended the 476-year-old King Henry VIII (KHVIII) School in Coventry during the 1930s and 1940s, would be ‘astounded’ to learn that it is to be merged with its even older rival, Bablake School, according to a former headmaster. The Coventry School Foundation, responsible for running both co-educational independent schools – which have a combined history of more than 1,150 years and each charge up to £12,000 in annual fees...