Actually they're called public schools as opposed to clerical schools. They were places you could get an education without taking holy orders - ie remain a member of the public.

Well it seems clear as mud now - public - actually i think i got it.

But is still weird that a Public School in U.K., if i have the connation correct is not a public school, open to the general public.

Q- Are Public Schools like that posh Winchester Boys School or whatever - do they get State aid? What would a typical tuition be if no scholarship aid as i assume they give poorer students to claim some kind of diversity.

Q- Are Public Schools like that posh Winchester Boys School or whatever - do they get State aid? >>>>>

It's just called Winchester college - it was founded in 1387 and they didn't educate girls back then.

No they receive no state aid - but they do have charitable status, which annoys lefties no end.

>>>What would a typical tuition be if no scholarship aid as i assume they give poorer students to claim some kind of diversity.>>>>>>>>>

Fees are around £25,000 pa and that covers schooling, bed a nd board. Everything else has to be paid for on top - so add another £5,000 or so to that.

There are scholarships, mainly around music and academic ability (the Choristers get in for free for instance). As to diversity - the whole point of them is that they are completly elitist. Parents paying that kind of money don't want diversity!

They talk funny up north.

Bizarrely, the theoretical line that divides the "bath" from the "baath" pronouncers coincides almost exactly with the boundary between civil and military rule in Roman Britain and the border between the Anglo Saxons and the Danes.

Bloody vikings. What did they ever do for us?