he Division for Training has given the inexperienced gentle for Holland Park College to affix the nation’s greatest academy chain regardless of a serious marketing campaign in opposition to the transfer.
The college, generally known as the Socialist Eton, will be part of United Studying after a closing resolution was taken by faculties minister Baroness Barran.
In a letter to folks seen by the Night Commonplace, regional faculties director Kate Dethridge stated United Studying would “deliver to bear vital useful resource and capability” to assist the troubled west London faculty which was just lately downgraded to “insufficient” by Ofsted.
A gaggle of Holland Park mother and father have been campaigning in opposition to the transfer, a judicial assessment has been launched over the session and lecturers have staged a sequence of strikes in protest in opposition to it.
Close by faculty Kensington Aldridge Academy had provided to assist Holland Park College, and Kensington and Chelsea council provided £1million in assist of the bid.
However in her letter Dame Kate stated: “I do know there was assist for Kensington Aldridge Academy (KAA) as an possibility, nevertheless, though KAA is an impressive faculty it doesn’t at the moment have expertise of enhancing a faculty with an ‘Insufficient’ Ofsted judgement. I wish to acknowledge the wonderful work that KAA do.”
Holland Park has repeatedly been within the headlines after whistleblowers revealed a “poisonous” tradition final summer time, sparking a board shakeup, authorities intervention and damning impartial probe.
Dame Kate’s letter doesn’t spell out the date for the switch to United Studying, however says the belief will present assist “from September.”
It stated: “This has been a turbulent yr for college kids at HPS, following on from two years of disruption because of Covid. All of us need the most effective for the scholars at HPS and I hope that as we method the brand new educational yr, we are able to work collectively to return HPS to a peaceful and secure footing and be sure that the scholars at HPS get the wonderful training they deserve.”
A spokesman for Holland Park College stated: “Though we perceive that some stakeholders can be disenchanted by this resolution, we hope that every one can now come collectively to assist the varsity in the most effective pursuits of the scholars.”
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