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The new principal of Harrow College has promised education will not be disrupted its two sixth form campuses are merged.

Tony Medhurst, 45, took over from former head Barbara Field on Monday, April 21, and has said the redevelopment will be one of his biggest challenges.

He said: "There are college projects going on in the country where people have to be moved off the site to temporary buildings away from the campus.

"We are in a fortunate position in so far as we won't have to move anyone.

"That's one of the very attractive things about the project."

Plans to bring the college's two campuses, in Brookshill, Harrow Weald, and Lowlands Road, Harrow, onto one site still need to be agreed by the council's planning committee.

If they go ahead the new campus will be on land surrounding Harrow-on-the-Hill underground station.

Mr Medhurst, who started his career as a teacher in 1982, said he has spent his first few days in the job introducing himself to staff and is planning a number of meetings with other schools, the council and police.

He said: "I know my predecessor had a strong relationship with the police and I think it's a good thing to do.

"I do believe very strongly in community policing and in fact my former college used to have the safer neighbourhood team on site.

"That helped keep the children behaving I can tell you."

He said he is still learning about the area and how it is different from his last school, the College of Northwest London, in Brent, where he was deputy head.

He said: "This college has a slightly different character to my last one because there's a different student population.

"The students at my previous college are generally older as there are more vocational courses.

"The students here tend to be younger but their commitment to achieve is comparable."

11:32am Friday 25th April 2008

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