Eton Group
The Eton Group is a collection of 12 independent schools whose heads meet each year to discuss the curriculum.[1]
Fee-fixing
On 7 February 2003, bursars from the Eton Group schools met at Dulwich College in South London, to outline fees for coming year, the Sunday Times reported:
- Andrew Wynn, of Eton, admitted: "We do meet and talk about fees to get some idea of what other schools are thinking. We are a co-operative bunch, and we are not out to slit each other's throats."[2]
In June 2003, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) launched an investigation into public school fee-fixing in the wake of the Sunday Times coverage.[3] A number of Eton Group members were among 50 public schools found guilty of fee-fixing in a November 2006 OFT decision.[4]
Members
Eton College | Bryanston | Dulwich College | Highgate | King's College School Wimbledon | King's Canterbury | Marlborough College | St Paul's | Sherborne | Tonbridge | University College School Hampstead | Westminster[5]
External Resources
- Jonathan Calvert and Robert Winnett, Private schools in row over fee fixing, Sunday Times, 27 April 2003.
- Jonathan Calvert, Parents may sue on school fee rise ‘cartel’, Sunday Times, 4 May 2003.
- Dan Rosenheck, Who's paying Lord Snooty's fees?, New Statesman, 21 July 2003.
- Nick Compton, The public school maffia, Evening Standard, 1 August 2003.
- Robert Winnett, Top public schools found guilty of fee-fixing cartel, Sunday Times, 23 October 2005.
Notes
- ↑ Rupert Uloth, Why Eton is so special, Country Life, 20 September 2007.
- ↑ Jonathan Clavert and Robert Winnett, Private schools in row over fee fixing, Sunday Times, 27 April 2003.
- ↑ Robert Winnett, Top public schools found guilty of fee-fixing cartel, The Sunday Times, 23 October 2005.
- ↑ OFT issues final decision and imposes penalties in independent schools investigation, Office of Fair Trading], 23 November 2006.
- ↑ Rupert Uloth, Why Eton is so special, Country Life, 20 September 2007.