He described it as "lancing a boil", which he said had been stressful for staff and parents.

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An Ofsted report on the Sir Robert Woodard Academy in Lancing said the school's effectiveness and capacity for improvement were both "inadequate".

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Dasgupta is a strange writer: uneven, a little formulaic, but also graced with an ironic eye and a gift for sentences of lancing power and beauty.

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