The headmistress of the oldest private girls’ school in London has launched a staunch defence of single-sex education saying all-girls’ schools are not a “relic of the past”.
Alex Hutchinson, head of the £21,000-a-year James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich, said it was not inevitable that all schools will become fully co-educational.
She also warned that the debate about single-sex education risks becoming one of “binary rights and wrongs”, whereas it is down to individuals to decide what school is right.
It comes after Westminster School said it is preparing to admit girls to all year groups for the first time in its more than 400-year history.
