Editing Eton College (section)

=== Changes to the school ===
Registration at birth, corporal punishment, and [[fagging]] are no longer practised at Eton.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/05/weekinreview/the-world-a-proper-british-upbringing-oh-thank-you-that-hurt.html |title=A Proper British Upbringing; Oh, Thank You. That Hurt. |last=Lyall |first=Sarah |date=5 March 2000 |work=The New York Times |access-date=1 December 2021 |quote=In 1999... [corporal punishment] was finally outlawed in [all] schools.}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url= https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,951513,00.html |title=Eton Bids Farewell to Fagging |date=26 May 1980 |magazine=Time |location=New York |access-date=1 December 2021 |quote=Eton has decided to drop fagging. The practice will be banned as of July 1980}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.thetutoress.com/how-to-get-into-eton-college |title=How to Get into Eton College |date=2021 |website=The Tutoress |access-date=1 December 2021 |quote=...until only a few decades ago, entrance was determined by being entered on house lists upon birth.}}</ref> Academic standards were raised, and by the mid-1990s Eton ranked among Britain's top three schools in getting its pupils into [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]].<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/1995/09/03/young-prince-william-takes-1st-step-toward-becoming-old-etonian/ |title=Young Prince William Takes 1st Step Toward Becoming 'Old Etonian' |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=3 September 1995 |access-date=12 June 2013}}</ref>

The proportion of boys at the school who were sons of Old Etonians fell from 60% in 1960 to 20% in 2016. This has been attributed to a number of factors, including: the dissolution of the house lists, which allowed Old Etonians to register their sons at birth, in 1990; harder entrance examinations as the emphasis on academic attainment increased; a sharp rise in school fees increasingly beyond the means of many UK families; and increased applications from international, often very wealthy, families.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=de Bellaigue |first= Christopher |author-link=Christopher de Bellaigue |url= https://www.1843magazine.com/features/eton-and-the-making-of-a-modern-elite |title=Eton and the making of a modern elite |magazine=[[1843 Magazine]] |date=August–September 2016 |access-date=27 November 2017}}</ref>