Independent School Fee Fixing Scandal
In September 2005, fifty independent schools in the United Kingdom were found guilty of operating a fee-fixing cartel by the Office of Fair Trading. The OFT found that the schools had exchanged details of their planned fee increases over three academic years between 2001-02 and 2003-04, in breach of the Competition Act 1998.
The implicated Independent Schools Council said that the investigation had been "a scandalous waste of public money".
Read more about Independent School Fee Fixing Scandal: Evidence, Schools Involved, Arguments in Support of The Schools, Resolution
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