Alan Davies (headmaster)
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Alan Seymour Davies (born 21 February 1947) is a former headmaster (so-called "superhead") of Copland Community School and Technology Centre Foundation 1988–2009.[1] In 2000, he was made a Knight Bachelor for services to education.
In 2013, Davies was convicted of false accounting (fraud), and given a 12-month suspended sentence.[2][3] Consequently, his knighthood was rescinded in 2014.[4] In 2019 he was ordered to pay back £1.4 Million he obtained through illegal bonuses to the local authority.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ ‘DAVIES, Sir Alan (Seymour)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2013; online edn, Dec 2013 accessed 16 May 2014
- ^ Press Association (3 October 2013). "Former headteacher sentenced for false accounting". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
- ^ "Head teacher Sir Alan Davies avoids jail over fraud". BBC News. 3 October 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
- ^ Copland School ex head teacher stripped of knighthood BBC News, 22 May 2014.
- ^ Lydall, Anthony France, Ross (21 February 2019). "Shamed superhead must pay back £1.4m he stole from council". Evening Standard. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
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