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direct-grant school

noun

  1. (in Britain, formerly) a school financed by endowment, fees, and a state grant conditional upon admittance of a percentage of nonpaying pupils nominated by the local education authority
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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He attended Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Elstree – “I thought it was going to be like Tom Brown’s School Days, but it was a direct-grant school then, and still very mixed” – after which he went to Bristol University.

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