Alan Davies (headmaster)

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convicted of false accounting (fraud), and given a 12-month suspended sentence.[2][3] Consequently, his knighthood was rescinded in 2014.[4]

References
  1. ‘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
  2. Press Association (3 October 2013). "Former headteacher sentenced for false accounting". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  3. "Head teacher Sir Alan Davies avoids jail over fraud". BBC News. 3 October 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  4. Copland School ex head teacher stripped of knighthood BBC News, 22 May 2014.
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