The Singapore offshoot of a prestigious London school has told parents it has scrapped a planned expansion weeks after an FT investigation detailed allegations of a toxic working culture, safeguarding lapses and health and safety breaches.
North London Collegiate School (Singapore), whose UK parent institution was ranked by The Sunday Times as the third-best secondary school in the UK last year, informed pupils’ parents last week that the expansion had been aborted after it became clear it might “present risks to the ethos of [the] school”.
The new campus was planned to open this summer at 20 Harbour Drive, a S$160mn ($124mn) site owned by a fund operated by Keppel, a Singapore property company part owned by state investor Temasek.