Headmaster confiscates pupils' home computers

A head teacher has raised standards at his school by confiscating computers and television sets from the homes of under-performing pupils.

Duncan Harper, the head of New Woodlands school in Bromley, south London, visits the homes of pupils who are tired or grumpy in lessons and seizes electronic equipment from their bedroom.

Mr Harper, who first asks parents' permission to remove the articles, says that academic results and behaviour have improved markedly since he introduced the "seizure policy".