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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Richard Adams Education editor

Smart money: family offers £180,000 a year for tutor to get one-year-old into Eton

Three Eton school boys seen from behind
‘In time, the family hope their son will be accepted at a top-flight school such as Eton, St Paul’s, Westminster or Harrow.’ Photograph: Andrew Michael/Alamy

Getting paid £180,000 a year to tutor a single child might sound like a dream job but there’s a catch: the child is only one-year-old and you need to get him into Eton.

A wealthy family near London is “searching for a tutor to provide a comprehensive British cultural environment” for their infant, according to an advertisement published by Tutors International, which calls itself “the handcrafted Bentley” of private tutoring.

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