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Eton College (/ ˈ iː t ən /) is a public school (fee-charging and boarding for secondary school age boys) in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore , [4] [5] making it the 18th-oldest school in the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC).
4 de dez. de 2020 · I was the second year of an initiative in the Eighties by Eton to trial girls being admitted to the college. Twelve of us were chosen from three different schools near Windsor to join for the...
- Katherine Bergen
2 de mar. de 2023 · By Hope Coke. 2 March 2023. Amanda Lewis/Getty Images. Eton College, perhaps the most famous boys’ school in the world, will reportedly become co-educational ‘in due course’, according to Richard Eden in the Daily Mail .
- Hope Coke
3 de dez. de 2020 · 3 December 2020. Getty Images. Eton College, founded in 1440, is a boys' boarding school. Allowing girls to study at Eton College would be a "step forward", the education secretary has...
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Lottery Grant
- Unfair Dismissal of An Art Teacher / Prince Harry's A Level Grades
- School Fees Cartel
- Farming Subsidies
- University Admissions
- Scholarship Exam Question About Killing Protesters
- Mistaken Acceptance Emails
- Examination Security Breaches
- Dismissal of A Schoolmaster
Tallulah Bankhead, an American actress, made her debut on the London stage at Wyndham's Theatre in 1923 and soon became well known, appearing in many plays in London and across Great Britain's theatres throughout the Roaring Twenties. In the 1920s, the Home Office and MI5 were instructed to look into rumours that she was seducing boys at Eton. The ...
In 1995, the National Lottery granted £3 million towards a new sports complex, estimated to cost £4.6m, to add to Eton's existing facilities of two swimming pools, thirty cricket pitches, twenty-four football and hockey pitches, tennis courts, a gymnasium, and so on. The school was to pay £200,000 and contribute 4.5 hectares of land, in return for ...
In October 2004, Sarah Forsyth claimed that she had been bullied by senior staff and had been unfairly dismissed by Eton College. She also claimed that she had been instructed to complete some of Prince Harry's coursework, to enable him to pass his A Level Art examination. As evidence, Forsyth provided secretly recorded conversations with both Prin...
In 2005, the Office of Fair Trading found fifty independent schools, including Eton, to have breached the Competition Act by "regularly and systematically" exchanging information about planned increases in school fees, which was collated and distributed among the schools by the bursar at Sevenoaks School. Following the investigation by the OFT, eac...
A Freedom of Information request in 2005 revealed that in 2004 Eton had received £2,652 in farm subsidies, under the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy. Asked to explain what the subsidy was for, the school told The Guardian it was "a bit of a mystery". It then asked the Rural Payments Agency to explain the payment, but no information was ...
Figures obtained by The Daily Telegraph had revealed that in 2010 thirty-seven applicants from Eton were accepted by Oxford, while most state schools had difficulty obtaining entry even for pupils with the country's most impressive exam results. According to The Economist, Oxford and Cambridge admitted more Etonians each year than applicants from t...
In May 2013, Eton College was criticised in several newspaper editorials about having asked potential scholarship students in 2011 how, if they were Prime Minister, they might defend the use of lethal force against twenty-five civilians by the Army, after two days of violent protests in which several policemen had been killed.
In July 2015, Eton accidentally sent emails to 400 prospective students, offering them conditional entrance to the school in September 2017. The email was intended for nine students, but an IT glitch caused it to be sent to 400 additional families, who did not all have a place. In response, the school issued the following statement: "This error was...
In August 2017, the college's head of economics left after a breach of security in the "pre-U" exams, for which he was the principal examiner for his subject on behalf of Cambridge Assessment International Examinations (CAIE), which set the paper. As a result, CAIE gave Eton's candidates an "assessed mark" for the paper concerned, a procedure which...
In November 2020, English teacher Will Knowland was dismissed by the Eton Head Master, Simon Henderson, over a video talk entitled 'The Patriarchy Paradox', which questioned "current radical feminist orthodoxy" and “why woke just don’t work”. The video was originally meant to be an official school lecture by Knowland but when staff asked him not to...
6 de set. de 2018 · Lucy Jones was the only teen girl living among 1,250 sons of wealth, royalty and power at the prestigious Eton College in England.
18 de nov. de 2022 · Eton College has apologised after it was claimed girls visiting from a nearby state school were subjected to misogynistic language and racial slurs. The school told the BBC a number of its...