The deputy head of Eton College has promised its new selective sixth form in Oldham will be a "good neighbour" as he revealed a number of local schools had agreed to join a partnership with the famous boarding school.
The private college where world leaders and royals have been educated is waiting to see if it can progress with its plan for three selective sixth-form free schools, one in Oldham and two others in Middlesbrough and Dudley.
The proposal is designed to open up Oxbridge and other elite universities to students in the towns, all of which are education 'cold spots' identified in the Government's Levelling Up paper.
