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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]
Oppidan Scholarships are currently awarded based upon receiving Distinction in a certain number of Trials (the internal examinations held twice a year): a boy will be considered for the scholarship after receiving four Distinctions (or three consecutively).
The Newcastle Scholarship is an annual prize awarded at Eton College in England for the highest performance in a series of special written examinations taken over the course of a week. It was instituted and first awarded in 1829 and is the college's most prestigious prize.
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Eton College will open three selective sixth form free schools in education “cold spots” identified by the Levelling Up paper, it was announced on Thursday.
At Eton College, a King's Scholar (known as a "Colleger" or colloquially as a "tug") is one who has passed the College Election examination and has been awarded a Foundation Scholarship and admitted into a house known as "College", the premises of which are situated within the original ancient purpose-built college buildings.
Its close relationship with Eton College has led to the school being dubbed 'the Eton of the East End' by the national media. [3] LAE is a flagship of the government's academies programme. It was visited by Michael Gove in February 2014, who called it a "superb new free school". [4]
It is widely regarded as the "Eton College" of all-girls boarding schools in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The school incorporates dance studios, music classrooms, a 320-seat theatre, a heated indoor swimming pool, a golf course, a private tunnel to the beach, a farm and a chapel, as well as a range of workshops, studios, laboratories and ...