When every little helps
IN 1945, the then master of Dulwich College devised the ‘Dulwich Experiment’: a grand plan to have the school comprise 50% fee-paying students and 50% boys on local-authority awards. Fast forward some 75 years and the current master, Joseph Spence, is doggedly resurrecting that same mission to make it a school of access.
‘We want every bright boy in London to think that Dulwich is possible for them,’ Dr Spence says of his 1,600-strong powerhouse, set in 70 acres, yet only a 12-minute train ride from the capital’s centre. ‘My aim is to become “needs blind”, meaning any child that would benefit from a place could have one, irrespective of their family income. It’s a phrase I’ve
