Eton Group

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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

Notes

  1. Rupert Uloth, Why Eton is so special, Country Life, 20 September 2007.
  2. Jonathan Clavert and Robert Winnett, Private schools in row over fee fixing, Sunday Times, 27 April 2003.
  3. Robert Winnett, Top public schools found guilty of fee-fixing cartel, The Sunday Times, 23 October 2005.
  4. OFT issues final decision and imposes penalties in independent schools investigation, Office of Fair Trading], 23 November 2006.
  5. Rupert Uloth, Why Eton is so special, Country Life, 20 September 2007.