The headteacher of Gordonstoun, the independent boarding school, has locked up pupils’ mobile phones as they are “designed to be addictive”.
Lisa Kerr, principal of the school, which counts the King and the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh among its alumni, banned mobile phone use during the school day in 2017.
Now she has taken the restrictions a step further and forced all except sixth-form students to leave their phones in their boarding houses during the day and hand them into staff overnight.
Writing in The Times, Kerr said: “Mobile phone apps are designed to be addictive, to create regular dopamine mini-hits.
