Eton is cheaper in terms of contact time

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No...sorry going with the below logic.

Eton College - 55 hours a week of supervised contact time for students £35,800...36 weeks a year = £18.08 an hour

Any university £9000 a year - 26 weeks a year...11 hours supervised contact time a week = £31.46 an hour.

Why would you expect to pay less for higher education???

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1420787

This makes it sound like a choice between Eton and university. It isn't that people choose to pay for university and yet not Eton because they think university is cheaper or better value. They do it this way because schools are available for free, whereas university (generally) isn't.

Eton shouldn't be comparing itself to universities to demonstrate value. After all, as the last poster said, university is a higher level of education and you might expect it to be more... To demonstrate that Eton is good value you would need to show that it is more worthwhile to pay for Eton than it is to get a state education for free.

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megan789

Original post by Trapz99

Well, my school does have more people getting into Oxbridge and RG unis than private schools do, so I'd say it is better.

The worst school in my area had more getting into Oxbridge then the local private school.

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dozyrosie

Original post by Daftpunker

In terms of hourly rate (based on the average 11 hours a week contact time students have in their courses) it now costs double to attend ANY university then it does to attend Eton College. Unbelievable...probably the most over-priced thing in the history of the UK.