Spectator Schools: autumn 2025
In this week’s Spectator Schools supplement, Ysenda Maxtone Graham interviews Sir Nicholas Coleridge as he completes his first year as Provost of Eton. He speaks to her about the changing face of the school, Labour’s ‘pernicious’ tax on learning and the possibility of admitting girls (‘Never say never’). In The Spectator’s Oxbridge files, we reveal a league table showing how well state schools – grammars, sixth-form colleges and others – compete with independent schools when it comes to Oxford and Cambridge offers. Elsewhere in the supplement, Lara Prendergast turns her eyes to the heavens at Marlborough’s observatory, Lara Brown investigates how boarding schools are dealing with the smartphone menace and Harry
