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Eton College (/ ˈ iː t ən / ⓘ EE-tən) [3] is a public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys aged 13–18, in Eton, Berkshire, England.It has educated prime ministers, world leaders, Nobel laureates, Academy Award and BAFTA award-winning actors, and generations of the aristocracy, and has been referred to as "the nurse of England's statesmen". [4]
In July 2015, Eton accidentally sent emails to 400 prospective students, offering them conditional entrance to the school in September 2017. [24] 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.
Fagging was sometimes associated with both consensual sexual service and sexual abuse. [4]: 215–244 [5] Christopher Tyerman, writing about the history of Harrow School, stated that in some situations, fagging could either encourage or conceal sexual activity between students, and that, at Harrow, fagging began to decline around the same time as the school started actively discouraging ...
Old boys of Eton College in England, known as Old Etonians. The abbreviation OE is used at the school. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, he expanded Eton's online learning platform EtonX to state pupils and opened the school's accommodation to Key workers. [1] He stated his interest in widening the school's intake to those of different backgrounds, saying "we want talented boys to be able to come to Eton whatever their ...
The £44,000-a-year private school has partnered with Star Academies for the scheme, and will bid in the next wave of the Government’s free school programme, with the colleges expected to ...
[2] 17-year-old Horatio Chapple, a former pupil of Eton College, was killed in the attack. [3] Four others were hurt, three seriously, and all were flown to Tromsø on mainland Norway for treatment. [4] The bear was shot dead by one of the expedition's leaders, Michael "Spike" Reid, who himself suffered severe head and facial injuries. [5]
Lord Snooty starred a wealthy Eton schoolboy [6] named Marmaduke, the bored Earl of Bunkerton who often sneaked out of his home to bond with the working-class children on the other side of town. His friends knew he was a wealthy child and affectionately nicknamed him "Snooty", [ 1 ] but he donned a disguise to hide from his family and the ...