A free college that was set as much as assist deprived college students get into among the high universities has gotten extra college students into Oxbridge than Eton.
Students at Harris Westminster Sixth Form obtained 57 presents from Cambridge and Oxford, whereas pupils at Eton obtained 51 this 12 months.
The college, which was based a decade in the past, runs lessons on Saturdays and is open from 9.30am to six.30pm through the week.
Last 12 months the free college, which is positioned in London, achieved the identical variety of presents than Eton, which was round 48.
Eton College fees college students nearly £50,000 a 12 months to attend and fogeys additionally need to shell out one other £400 for the registration charge and an additional £3,200 for the acceptance charge.
Eton College (pictured) fees college students nearly £50,000 a 12 months to attend
James Handscombe, government principal of Harris Westminster, stated the pupils had obtained presents to check topics akin to classics, English, historical past of artwork, legislation and chemistry
However £500 of that is refunded when the scholar leaves the school, ‘topic to settlement of his remaining invoice’.
Its well-known alumni embody the king in ready Prince William, Prince Harry, former Prime Ministers David Cameron and Boris Johnson and Dominic West, who performed King Charles in The Crown.
The state sixth type was established in partnership with Westminster School, which fees its college students day charges of £37,500 a 12 months and boarding charges of virtually £50,000.
Nigella Lawson, AA Milne and Sir Peter Ustinov are a few of Westminster School’s most notable alma mater.
Westminster School obtained 96 presents from Oxbridge this 12 months, the best in a decade.
James Handscombe, government principal of Harris Westminster, stated the pupils had obtained presents to check topics akin to classics, English, historical past of artwork, legislation, chemistry, structure and Chinese research.
He additionally studied at Oxford and Harvard himself earlier than deciding to coach as a trainer and have become the founding precept of the free college in 2014.
He instructed The Times: ‘I feel over time the colleges have gotten higher at doing this. They’ve seen what that you must search for with a view to choose college students with potential who have not had personal schooling all through their lives.’
Mr Handscombe made headlines final 12 months as he launched a ban on pupils utilizing the titles ‘sir’ or ‘miss’ to handle lecturers, branding it ‘cultural misogyny’.
Prince William attended Eton College. Pictured: William in 2000 at Highgrove
Students at Harris Westminster Sixth Form obtained 57 presents from Cambridge and Oxford, whereas pupils at Eton (pictured) obtained 51 this 12 months
Former Prime Minister David Cameron additionally attended Eton College
He shared an meeting that he had given to college students, during which he asks them to make use of full names when talking to lecturers.
The meeting was titled: ‘no extra sir, no extra miss’
Last summer time, one fifth of A-Levels taken on the college, which has round 300 pupils in yearly, had been graded at A*.
And 1 / 4 of pupils achieved no less than A*AA.
This comes amid strain for Cambridge and Oxford to simply accept extra college students from state colleges.
State college pupils made up 72.9 per cent of Cambridge’s house pupil consumption in 2022, which is up from the earlier 12 months.
However, Oxford’s quantity has stayed at 68.1 per cent.