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".
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