Eton to work with state school

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector Online, 21 May 2008

Eton College has said it will enter a partnership with local state schools to improve education standards for its most able pupils and increase university applications.

State pupils will be able to take advantage of Eton resources and even tuition from its pupils, with particular emphasis on improvements in maths, sciences and languages. Eton is the latest of several independent schools to take action to increase their benefits to state schools, in the wake of new...

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