Leader ran businesses from school
SUPERHEAD Sir Greg Martin reportedly earned almost £400,000 in one year while running side businesses from his former school.
He was criticised by the Commons public accounts committee last year for appearing to run an ‘inappropriate’ dating website and a private health club from the site of Durand Academy in South London. MPs heard that Sir Greg pocketed £161,000 as sole director of the leisure centre that operates on the premises of the school.
He also received more than £229,000 in basic salary and pension contributions as executive head in 2012/13. The total is believed to have made him the UK’s highest paid school leader.
Sir Greg retired as executive head last year and is now Durand Academy Trust’s chairman of governors. He is currently battling the Education Funding Agency over its plan to withdraw funding from the academy over concerns about potential conflicts of interest.