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Winchester College, like Eton, received a fifty per cent reduction in its penalty in return for its full cooperation. [82] [83] In 2017 Winchester College suspended its Head of Art History for providing students with information about questions on an upcoming public exam. [84]
Eton College was founded by Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to 70 poor boys who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge, founded by the same king in 1441. Henry used Winchester College as a model
That college, by its second charter of 10 July 1443, had been placed in the same relation to Eton that New College bore to Winchester: i.e. it was to be recruited entirely from Eton. [4] The chief part of Waynflete's duties as Provost was the financing and completion of the buildings and establishment.
Twenty prime ministers were schooled at Eton College, of whom nine were educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, including all three who held office between 1880 and 1902 (Gladstone, Salisbury, Rosebery). Seven were educated at Harrow School and six at Westminster School. Rishi Sunak was the second to be educated at Winchester College.
Master in College is the title of the housemaster of College, which is the oldest boarding house at Eton College and reserved for Eton's seventy King's Scholars. King's Scholars (Collegers) attend Eton on scholarships provided under the original foundation by King Henry VI in 1440 and awarded by examination each year. The school originally ...
The Eton Group is an association of 12 English public schools within the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The Eton Group schools often cooperate with each other, organising events and school matches. For example, the Heads of academic departments meet to discuss curriculum matters of common interest.
Five of the Rugby Group, Charterhouse School, Harrow School, Winchester College, Rugby School and Shrewsbury School, were part of the group of nine schools investigated by the Clarendon Commission of 1864 and were subsequently reformed by the Public Schools Act 1868 (together with Eton College and Westminster School).
The "School" building, 17th century. As the college was a religious as well as educational establishment, it was threatened with closure during Henry VIII's reign. In 1535, a visitation was made to assess the college's assets, after which some of Winchester's valuable land assets near London were seized and exchanged for assets of similar size elsewhere in the country, depriving the college of ...