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Eton College told it could refer dismissed Master under Prevent duty School contacted Local Authority Designated Officer to report concerns about Will Knowland's controversial lecture Will Knowland was dismissed from Eton College earlier this year Eton College received legal advice that a dismissed Master could be referred under the Prevent duty for advocating male superiority and the glorification of violence, The Telegraph can reveal.  The £42,500-a-year school contacted the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead’s Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) to report its concerns about ...

47 shares A spokesperson for Eton College told MailOnline: 'We are sorry some Old Etonians have taken this position, but the school must act in the best interest of current pupils and staff and this includes complying with regulations which Mr Knowland's video breached.  'Many other Old Etonians have sent the school strong messages of support, telling us that we have done the right thing.' Earlier this month Mr Knowland lost his appeal over his dismissal after the governing body upheld the decision to sack him.   He told MailOnline that he was 'disappointed, but not surprised' over the ve...

It began, remembers Rachel Knowland, with a Viking raid. Her husband, the sacked Eton English master Will Knowland, had recommended the classic Norse saga 'The Long Ships' to students at the school's Huxley Book Club. He thought its buccaneering young hero Orm Tostesson might fire their teenage imaginations and they'd learn some history, geography and anthropology along the way. But Knowland was rapped over the knuckles when a colleague complained, not about the book itself, but about the The New Statesman magazine review he'd added to pique their interest. 'A banquet of adventure by sea and ...

Eton Head Master's row with beaks led to intervention of bishop under 600-year-old rule An Eton housemaster wrote to the Bishop of Lincoln, Eton’s “Visitor” under rules dating back to its foundation in 1440 18 December 2020 • 9:00pm  Bishop Christopher Lowson descended on the famous school in 2018 A dispute between Eton’s Head Master and the “beaks” led to one of the country’s most senior bishops intervening under a 600-year-old rule, The Telegraph has learned. A housemaster at the famous school wrote to the Bishop of Lincoln, Eton’s “Visitor” under rules dating back to...

SIR – Your Leading Article (December 16) is absolutely right. Trust in people’s common sense. The vast majority will do what is right. The usual suspects will be irresponsible regardless. John Taylor Purley, Surrey SIR – They break the rules; you bend the rules; I have a very good reason for what I am doing. Kate Wylie Carrick   SIR – You report that two leading medical journals have criticised the Government’s stance on Christmas. Readers should understand that the Health Service Journal is actually a magazine for NHS managers. The British Medical Journal, meanwhile, is partly a...