The 'modernisation agenda' aims to have the first girl boarders admitted in 2024 9 February 2021 • 7:28pm The issue of whether to teach girls at the £41,709-a-year school has been a matter of debate for over a hundred years Credit: Christopher Pillitz/Corbis Historical It is one of the country’s last bastions of all boys’ boarding schools. But Winchester College is to admit girls and day pupils for the first time in its 640-year history, as part of a “modernisation agenda”. From next year, male and female day pupils will be able to join the school in the Sixth Form, with the aim that the first girl boarders will be admitted in 2024.