Eton sets sights on Dudley, Middlesbrough and Oldham for free colleges

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Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Pupils at the three colleges will have get support from Eton staff, the partnership said Eton College is set to open selective sixth form centres in three towns in England which will not charge fees.
The focus will be to admit large numbers of students on free school meals, from disadvantaged postcodes or who would be the first in their families to go to university, the partners said.
Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Eton College charges fees of more than £44,000 a year but said the new centres would be free They added the colleges' small size would target "a very special academic education" and claimed they would not disrupt existing local post-16 education.
The boys' public school near Windsor, Berkshire, charges fees of more than £44,000 a year and said it would make an ongoing funding commitment to the colleges "in perpetuity".