THE principal of a redundancy-threatened independent school has insisted it will remain in the city for centuries to come.
Hans Broekman, principal of the city’s renowned Liverpool College, has spoken out to stem fears that a dwindling number of older students could threaten the future of an establishment which has been in the city since 1840.
The £8,600-a-year college is restructuring its Upper School amid falling pupil numbers, expected to drop from 533 to 420 within three years.
Pupils per teacher could increase at the Mossley Hill school from 10 to 11 over the next year.
But a defiant Mr Broekman said he hoped redundancies could be avoided and any job losses would be no more than “a handful”.
The falling roll, he said, was not significantly hitting its coffers – pointing to a surplus last year – and any loss in 2009 would be negligible.
