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CCSS appoints new Principal

Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies (CCSS) has appointed Stuart Nicholson as its new Principal.

Mr Nicholson has replaced Mr Neil Roskilly, who has recently taken the post of the CEO of the Independent Schools Association, one of the oldest of the independent schools’ organisations in the UK, which has 300 member schools.

Stuart Nicholson has wide-ranging experience in the education sector in the UK, including 18 years variously as teacher, housemaster, and headmaster at schools in Devon, Edinburgh, and Suffolk.

A graduate of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh, Mr Nicholson also holds the National Professional Qualification for Headship and serves as a team inspector for the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate.

His teaching experience at A-level covers physics, business studies, and accounts. Outside the classroom he represented university sides at cricket and squash. Latterly he has taken up jogging and he enjoys driving his 1966 Riley Elf.

Mr Nicholson’s vision for CCSS is to continue providing a high quality education and outstanding pastoral care to all CCSS students and their parents, and to support constant improvements to the services provided to the families and other members of the extended CCSS community.

On his appointment to CCSS, Mr Nicholson commented “I am delighted to be Neil Roskilly’s successor as Principal of The Cambridge Centre for Sixth-Form Studies. CCSS is a special place for students which also makes it a special place to teach and to be Principal. The exceptional results that CCSS students achieve is a great source of pride for all involved, both students and staff. These very impressive performances by CCSS students make it an enticing place to come and be Principal and an exciting place to come and learn”.

Alan Dunckley, Chair of CCSS Trustees, said: “The Trustees are delighted that Stuart has joined CCSS as its new Principal. He brings a wealth of relevant experience and shares our ideals, values and aims.”