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Dudley's Eton College plan should be ditched
Birmingham Mail
|November 01, 2025
CLLR LABELS IDEA 'A VANITY PROJECT', AS MINISTERS STALL DECISION
STALLED plans for an Eton College in Dudley have prompted calls from a leading councillor for the scheme to be scrapped.
Cllr Ryan Priest, leader of the council’s Liberal Democrats, dismissed proposals for an Eton Star Academy in the town centre as vanity which risks further education provision in the region.
Plans for the college, to provide A-level education for around 240 students, were first announced in 2022 when Dudley was one of three towns chosen to benefit from the then Conservative government's Free School Programme.
Dudley was set to provide land for the college in Stafford Street but the scheme was put on hold when Labour took over in Westminster and called for a spending review.
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