 The Canterbury Cathedral and King's School The King's School in Canterbury, Kent, is a co-educational public school with boarding and day pupils. Image File history File links Canterbury_cathedral. ...
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St Peters St, Canterbury, from the West Gate, 1993 Canterbury (Latin: Duroverum) is a cathedral city in the county of Kent in southeast England. ...
A public school, in current English, Welsh and Northern Ireland usage, is a (usually) prestigious independent school, for children usually between the ages of 11 or 13 and 18, which charges fees and is not financed by the state. ...
It is said to have been founded in AD 597 by St. Augustine, making it the world's oldest school; however this claim may be based simply on the fact that St Augustine founded an abbey (within the current school's grounds) where some teaching took place. Events Saint Augustine is created Archbishop of Canterbury. ...
Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, 604 (traditional) or 605 (Thorn)) was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, sent to Ethelbert of Kent, Bretwalda of England by Pope Gregory the Great in 597. ...
St Augustines Abbey, Canterbury, Kent Now a World Heritage Site, the ruins of this important monastic foundation built by Saint Augustine are in the care of English Heritage. ...
Enrolment is 780 pupils (425 boys and 355 girls), 329 in the Sixth Form. The school is located within the Precincts of Canterbury Cathedral and St Augustine's Abbey. Although it charges some of the highest fees of any school in the United Kingdom, recently there has been significant controversy about the pastoral care availiable. Former pupils and teachers have complained that the school is rife with unchecked bullying and homophobia while the Headmaster's quasireligious conservatism has stripped away many fundamental rights. The school rules forbid being in town after 6 p.m. and pupils coming within a two metre radius of members of the opposite sex. Canterbury Cathedral, N.W., ca. ...
More recently, the Office of Fair Trading has found that the school is guilty of participating in a cartel colluding against parents to fix the level of their fees. The OFT stated that "regular and systematic exchange of confidential information as to intended fee increases was anti-competitive and resulted in parents being charged higher fees than would otherwise have been the case." The school, which chages fees of £23,280, now faces massive fines. Meanwhile, the staff fees escalate out of control and the Bursar "earns" several times the national minimum wage. The Office of Fair Trading or OFT is a UK statutory body established by the Enterprise Act 2002, which seeks to protect the consumer from anti-competitive practices. ...
The Office of Fair Trading or OFT is a UK statutory body established by the Enterprise Act 2002, which seeks to protect the consumer from anti-competitive practices. ...
Notable alumni Jaquetta Wheeler model An anonymous portrait, often believed to show Christopher Marlowe Christopher (Kit) Marlowe (baptised February 26, 1564 – May 30, 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. ...
William Harvey (1578–1657) was a medical doctor who is credited with first correctly describing, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. ...
W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ...
Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director, winner of an Academy Award for his film version of the musical, Oliver! (1968). ...
David Ivon Gower (born April 1, 1957) is a famous cricketer, former captain of the England side. ...
Michael Foale C. Michael Foale (born 6 January 1957) is a British-born astronaut with dual UK-US citizenship; he is a veteran of four space shuttle missions and extended stays on both Mir and the International Space Station. ...
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, known as Paddy, (born 11 February 1915, London) is a British author, scholar and soldier, who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Battle of Crete during World War II. He is famous in the genre of travel literature. ...
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Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, born January 11, 1934) is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development of Quicksort, the worlds most widely used sorting algorithm, in 1960. ...
External link - The King's School website
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