THE HUNT is once again on to find an `exceptional' permanent principal for Nuneaton's flagship academy.
Five months after the shamed chosen head of the academy, Martin Caine, sensationally quit his post, the Nuneaton News can reveal that the search has re-started to find a new leader.
Marion Plant, OBE, principal and chief executive at North Warwickshire and Hinckley College, which sponsors the academy, said that this time around they will be using a new recruitment process Lessons have been learned since the first appointment and they will widen their net to find the perfect person to lead the school.
"Governors have taken the decision to commence another recruitment process for the permanent principal and recruitment process will include the fact that whoever we recruit will be receive the support of the executive principal, Carol Reid," the college chief said.
"It's great to know that this will happen as this gives us the continuity we need and I am anxious that we have a wider field of applicants. Last time we looked at the most experienced applicants but we will broaden that, this time we are looking for an exceptional person who maybe does not have as much experience.
"We will begin to recruit very, very shortly with this slightly different approach."
Carol Reid, who is currently the executive principal overseeing the academy, added that the new recruitment process could lead to an `exceptional' deputy head or new headteacher being given the role under her experienced and outstanding educational wing.
"The best people learn on the job," she said.
"This is an exciting model, it will broaden the field and we think it will attract the right people."
The news comes as the Nuneaton Academy officially opens today for all pupils on both the Radnor Drive and Beaumont Road sites.
As featured in the News, Year Ten and Year Seven students were the first to attend the Radnor Drive site on Tuesday but, as of this morning, all year groups were due into the classrooms in the former secondary school buildings.
