Eton prepares you for life? Yeah, right

2 months ago

A quarter of parents lie to get their child into desired school

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4 months, 1 week ago

After private-school tax raid Eton tells parents: We can't afford to drop our £63,000-a-year fees

Daily Mail

The new Provost of Eton College has admitted the historic school has faced multiple calls from parents to lower fees since it told them it was levying Labour’s full ‘private-school tax’ on them. Eton is one of the few leading public schools to pass the full burden of Labour’s controversial 20 per cent VAT raid on fees onto parents. Eton, …

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$Dad cheating on Mum cost me my privileged private education - but, in a strange way, I owe my success to his fracturing of the family$

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Dad cheating on Mum cost me my privileged private education - but, in a strange way, I owe my success to his fracturing of the family

Daily Mail

Aged 12, I sat hunched at the top of the stairs, listening to my parents argue late into the night. The next day, as Dad drove me to school – a selective private girls’ school 20 minutes from our house – he told me that he and Mum had grown apart. I’d always loved drama and campaigned to get our …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Eton College music teacher banned from school after searching ‘gay little boys’ on work laptop

The Independent

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Classroom ban for ex-Eton teacher who searched for indecent images of children

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Eton 'to impose Labour's 20 per cent VAT rise in January's fees' with costs of attending 584-year-old school set to rise to £63,000 per year

Daily Mail

Eton College will add the full 20 per cent VAT cost on to school fees when Labour’s policy is introduced, it has announced. We recognise the concern that will be felt by many parents following this announcement.’ Eton College will charge the full 20 per cent VAT on its school fees from January after Labour's policy is introduced Chancellor Rachel …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Education background of Starmer’s cabinet is most representative ever of UK society

The Independent

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9 months ago

Want your child to go to Eton? Get ready to pay $13,000 more each year

CNN

London CNN — Private schools in Britain conjure up images of rolling lawns, pristine tennis courts, and dormitory rooms, serving as gilded hothouses of privilege. “In our state secondary schools, we’ve got thousands of teachers missing in the subjects that we need,” Labour leader Keir Starmer said on Sky News television earlier this month. “Let’s take maths: too many students… …

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1 year, 3 months ago

How did Eton become the ultimate four-letter word and not fit for a king?

The Independent

It is hard to think of a more powerful four-letter word in the English language than Eton. It, therefore, might come as little surprise that it looks likely – although unconfirmed – that the Prince and Princess of Wales look set not to send Prince George to his father’s old school, but rather to Marlborough, where his mother apparently thrived. …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Eton given green light to open selective sixth forms in education ‘cold spots’

The Independent

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2 years, 4 months ago

Eton College apologises after claims visiting schoolgirls were subjected to misogynistic and racial slurs

The Independent

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2 years, 8 months ago

Don't mention private school - any toff worth the family pile is now playing down their privilege

Daily Mail

I noticed it when the builders started work on my flat. Certain Old Etonians have also long referred to going to school ‘near Slough’ in an effort to play down their education. Certain old etonians have long referred to going to school ‘near slough’ But since 2019, the perilous situation has worsened as a government of posh boys lurches from …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Zahawi: Pupils not in strong academy trusts are missing out on life chances

The Independent

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3 years ago

Eton to give £1m extra to selective sixth forms in education ‘cold spots’

The Independent

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3 years, 1 month ago

Minister met with Ofqual over reports private schools boosted A-level grades

The Independent

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3 years, 7 months ago

The number of children being homeschooled could soon become a serious problem

The Independent

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4 years, 2 months ago

Senior Tory brands government handling of schools ‘shambles’ as minister confirms cancellation of GCSEs and A-levels

The Independent

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4 years, 4 months ago

The famous alumni of Eton College

Daily Mail

Simon Henderson has been the headmaster of the indepdent boarding school since 2015 Eton College is a prestigious independent boarding school near Windsor in Berkshire. Viewed as the ultimate in privilege and exclusivity, the 580-year-old school has taught princes, Prime Ministers and other notable alumni, including Prince William, Prince Harry and Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The £42,000-a-year school was founded …

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4 years, 7 months ago

British Govt's Policy to Determine Results Amid Pandemic Brings to Fore Deep-rooted Class System

News 18

All the mess over school results in Britain this year has produced a result that has long been known, but never declared quite as institutionally as now. Outbreak of the novel coronavirus ruled out exams this year, so the government devised a formula to determine results based on a combination of teacher assessments and average performance of a school over …

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5 years, 6 months ago

Labour conference: I was educated at a private school – but here’s why I agree they should be abolished

The Independent

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6 years, 3 months ago

50 years ago, my university days were tough – and the elitism is getting worse, not better

The Independent

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6 years, 10 months ago

Employers should offer jobs to alumni of underperforming state schools over public school graduates, suggests Justine Greening

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7 years, 8 months ago

State schools outshine Eton in science A-levels

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7 years, 8 months ago

Bright, poor students are being let down in academy chain schools, suggests study

The Independent

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8 years, 9 months ago

Head of Eton threatens to quit Tories over social mobility agenda

The Independent

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9 years ago

Every school will be forced to become an academy, Government to announce

The Independent

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9 years, 1 month ago

Eton College launches investigation into claim its beagling club took part in illegal hare hunt

The Independent

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9 years, 5 months ago

Former head of Eton calls for major expansion in number of state boarding schools

The Independent

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9 years, 8 months ago

Eton College wrongly sends acceptance offers to hundreds of boys

The Independent

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9 years, 10 months ago

New book reveals the perils of public schools

The Independent

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11 years, 10 months ago

Academies and free schools in rush to open state-funded boarding schools

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12 years, 4 months ago

Two more successful state schools under threat of closure as a result of academy expansion plans

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12 years, 7 months ago

David Thomas: Come and share my Eton playing fields

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13 years, 3 months ago

The London school using i to explore the world

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14 years, 6 months ago

Life lessons are just as important as academic ones at Abbotsholme School

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16 years, 1 month ago

'My 10 days at an Eton summer school was a real shock to the system'

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18 years, 9 months ago

Dominic Lawson: I went to Eton - and absolutely hated it

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