Sir is now a 'learning consultant'

Teachers will become learning consultants and pupils will be made to wear suits when a West Midlands school becomes a city academy.

Students at Dartmouth High School in Sandwell will also have to refer to their head teacher as the chief executive when it changes next year.

Those behind the idea said it would give pupils a taste of what the business world was like.

However, teaching unions said they were not sure the measures were necessary.

Malcolm Lever from the National Union of Teachers (NUT) said it was the first time he had heard of a school taking the approach.

He said: "Is the whole thing necessary? Teachers are teachers, why do they need to be called learning consultants?"