Editing Marlborough College (section)

==History==
[[File:Marlborough_College,_Wiltshire,_c.1891.jpg|thumb|Marlborough College, {{circa}} 1891]]
[[File:Marlborough College Labs.jpg|thumb|right|The listed Science Labs with the tree-covered Mound behind]]
Marlborough was, in 1968, the first major British independent boys' school to allow girls into the [[sixth form]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/284/Marlborough/HMC-ASCL/Marlborough-College-Marlborough-Wiltshire-SN8-1PA |title=Marlborough |author1=Boehm, Klaus |author2=Lees-Spalding, Jenny |work=Guide to Independent Schools |access-date=16 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716004346/http://guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/284/Marlborough/HMC-ASCL/Marlborough-College-Marlborough-Wiltshire-SN8-1PA |archive-date=16 July 2012 |url-status = dead}}</ref> setting a trend that many other schools followed. The school became fully co-educational in 1989, and made a major contribution to the [[School Mathematics Project]] (from 1961) alongside initiating the teaching of its Business Studies programme (from 1968). In 1963 a group of boys, led by the future political biographer [[Ben Pimlott]], wrote a book, ''Marlborough, an open examination written by the boys'', describing life at the boarding institute. The writer and television critic [[T. C. Worsley]] wrote about predatory old masters at the school in his critically acclaimed autobiography ''[[Flannelled Fool: A Slice of a Life in the Thirties]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Worsley |first=T.C. |title=[[Flannelled Fool]] |publisher=Alan Ross |location=London |year=1967}}</ref>

In 2005, the school was one of fifty of the country's most prestigious independent schools which were found by the [[Office of Fair Trading]] to have run an [[Independent school fee fixing scandal|illegal price-fixing cartel]], exposed by ''[[The Times]]'', which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.<ref>{{cite news |last=Halpin |first=Tony |title=Independent schools face huge fines over cartel to fix fees |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article588559.ece |work=The Times |location=London |date=10 November 2005 |access-date=12 May 2010 |archive-date=7 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007080058/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article588559.ece |url-status=dead }}</ref> Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000, and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2006/182-06 |title=OFT names further trustees as part of the independent schools settlement |publisher=[[Office of Fair Trading]] |date=21 December 2006 |access-date=12 November 2016 |url-status = bot: unknown|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140402142426/http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2006/182-06 |archive-date=2 April 2014 }}</ref> Jean Scott, the head of the [[Independent Schools Council]], said that independent schools had always been exempt from anti-cartel rules applied to business, were following a long-established procedure in sharing the information with each other, and were unaware of the change to the law (on which they had not been consulted). She wrote to [[John Vickers]], the OFT director-general, saying, "They are not a group of businessmen meeting behind closed doors to fix the price of their products to the disadvantage of the consumer. They are schools that have quite openly continued to follow a long-established practice because they were unaware that the law had changed."<ref>{{Cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1455730/Private-schools-send-papers-to-fee-fixing-inquiry.html | title = Private schools send papers to fee-fixing inquiry | newspaper = [[The Daily Telegraph]] | location = London | date = 3 January 2004 | access-date = 2011-03-15 | archive-date = 25 June 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130625070958/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1455730/Private-schools-send-papers-to-fee-fixing-inquiry.html | url-status = live }}</ref>

The school is a member of the [[G20 Schools]] group. [[Marlborough College Malaysia]], a sister school, opened in [[Johor]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/education-19361393|title=Marlborough opens international school in Malaysia|website=BBC News|date=25 August 2012|access-date=20 November 2018|archive-date=20 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120183306/https://www.bbc.com/news/education-19361393|url-status=live}}</ref>