Durand Academy boarding school gets £17m

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/michael-gove-hands-school-17m-8959740.html

The Independent reports a "decision to hand the Durand Education Trust £17 million “no questions asked” to set up the new boarding school in the village of Stedham, West Sussex, which will take in secondary school age pupils from Stockwell in south London." The paper says the decision has been questioned by Roy Page, chairman of the State Boarding Schools Association and headmaster of the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, who "will attack ministers for a “lack of vision” as to how they can support existing state boarding schools while handing out millions to “an organisation and headmaster with no experience in boarding”".