"[6] In response to the tribunal's ruling concerning the allegations about Prince Harry, the School issued a statement saying that Forsyth's claims "were dismissed for what they always have been—unfounded and irrelevant.
[8][10] While the tribunal made no ruling on the cheating claim, it "accepted the prince had received help in preparing his A-level 'expressive' project, which he needed to pass to secure his place at Sandhurst.
She wrote to John Vickers, the OFT director-general, saying, "They are not a group of businessmen meeting behind closed doors to fix the price of their products to the disadvantage of the consumer.
"[17] A Freedom of Information request in 2005 revealed that in 2004 Eton had received £2,652 in farm subsidies, under the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy.
[18] The Panorama television programme stated in March 2012 that the subsidies granted to Eton were for 'environmental improvements', in effect "being paid without having to do any farming at all".
[20] According to The Economist, Oxford and Cambridge admitted more Etonians each year than applicants from the whole country who qualify for free school meals.
In May 2013, Eton College was criticised in several newspaper editorials about having asked potential scholarship students in 2011 how, if they were Prime Minister, they might defend the use of lethal force against twenty-five civilians by the Army, after two days of violent protests in which several policemen had been killed.
In response, the school issued the following statement: "This error was discovered within minutes and each family was immediately contacted to notify them that it should be disregarded and to apologise.
We take this type of incident very seriously indeed and so a thorough investigation, overseen by the headmaster Tony Little and led by the tutor for admissions, is being carried out to find out exactly what went wrong and ensure it cannot happen again.
In November 2020, English teacher Will Knowland was dismissed by the Eton Head Master, Simon Henderson, over a video talk entitled 'The Patriarchy Paradox', which questioned "current radical feminist orthodoxy" and “why woke just don’t work”.
On the basis of legal advice he was dismissed from the school for gross misconduct after he refused six times a request by the headmaster to remove it.
[30][31] Some current and old Etonians have petitioned for his reinstatement on the grounds of free speech; others published an open letter calling the video “intellectually feeble, misogynistic and vitriolic”.
[32] Luke Martin, the head of the Perspectives course, resigned from that role after Knowland's dismissal, taking issue with what he described as "so-called progressive ideology" and "indoctrination" being promoted at the school.
Despite withdrawing full support, however, Pinker did not identify any factual inaccuracies in the lecture, said he could "imagine a pedagogical rationale" for it and added "I don't think he should be fired".
"[36] Lord Bellingham wrote to The Times to say that Old Etonians would be withholding over £2 million in donations to the College as long as Henderson remained in post because of his 'woeful handling of this issue'.
Several reliable news sources reported allegations that the girls were subjected to misogynistic language and racial slurs and were booed, and that Eton College pupils had cheered Farage's "worst comments on migrants and Covid".