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. The Headteachers and the Bursars also meet from time to time.
Unlike the older Rugby Group, which contains only boarding schools, the Eton Group includes both boarding schools outside of London and London schools taking day pupils.[1]
The 12 Eton Group schools are:[1]
Bryanston School, Dorset
Dulwich College, London
Eton College, Berkshire
Highgate School, London
King's College School, London
Marlborough College, Wiltshire
Sherborne School, Dorset
St Paul's School, London
The King's School, Canterbury, Kent
Tonbridge School, Kent
University College School, London
Westminster School, London
In 2003, following an investigation by The Sunday Times into the Eton Group and other schools, the Office of Fair Trading launched an investigation into alleged fee-fixing at independent schools.[2]
The bursar of Eton College, Andrew Wynn, was quoted as saying: "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."[3][4]
The Independent Schools Council said independent schools were following long-established practice and were not aware that the Competition Act 1998 (on which they were not consulted) had removed their previous exemption from anti-cartel rules.[5]
The OFT concluded in 2005 that 50 schools, including seven in the Eton Group, had exchanged detailed information about planned fee levels in a survey coordinated by Sevenoaks School.[6][7]
The case was settled in 2006, with the schools admitting that such exchange of information "involved a distortion of competition and infringed competition law", but not admitting to any effect on fees. The schools each paid a £10,000 penalty, and agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling £3 million to a trust to benefit pupils attending the schools in the relevant years.[8]
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^Calvert, Jonathan; Winnett, Robert (21 September 2003). "Focus: Ripped off?". The Times. London. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
^Winnett, Robert (23 October 2005). "Top public schools found guilty of fee-fixing cartel". The Times. London. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
^Wilkinson, Nick (2005). Managerial Economics: A Problem-Solving Approach. Cambridge University Press. pp. 325–327. ISBN 978-1-139-44358-6.
^"Private schools send papers to fee-fixing inquiry". The Daily Telegraph. London. 3 January 2004. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
^"OFT issues statement of objections against 50 independent schools" (Press release). Office of Fair Trading. 9 November 2005. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013.
^Elliott, Caroline; Konara, Palitha; Wei, Yingqi (2016). "Competition, cooperation and regulatory intervention impacts on independent school fees". International Journal of the Economics of Business. 23 (2): 243–262. doi:10.1080/13571516.2016.1144011. S2CID 55259320.
^"Independent schools agree settlement" (Press release). Office of Fair Trading. 19 May 2006. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013.
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