International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

based on Financial Times article PUBLIC SCHOOL FEES GO UP

The Week Vol. 1, No. 4, 22 January 1964 · p. 6 of the scan · 193 words

The scan: The Week v1 no4.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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based on Financial Times article

Public school fees are going up again. Last week's news of a summer increase in Harrow!'s charges have been followed by Monday's (Jan 13th) announcement that Dradfield's fees will go up in May. And parents sending their sons to “inchester, Clifton or Yestminster this week-end will have to paymore from this term onwards. Othor schools raised their feos a fow months ago — thore was a spato of increases last autumn from ton, Stowe, Fettes and othors, Fees, moroovor, are not the total of a parent's bill, ‘while music, for example, is a genuine extra — about 5 guineas a term — in a fow cases schools make a further charge for comp~ ulsory games. Stowe asks for £10 a term more to covor games as woll as laundry, while Eton parents are expected to find snother £19 for thise.. At Winchester there is one master for every 10 boys, and at Rugby one for evory 1l....In case readers of the Week aro considerinB-Ehdte children to public schools, here are some of the fees: Millfield (£705), Gton (£535), Harrow (£534), Winchoster (€537), «nd for the poor Ampleworth €432)

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