Eton College is the latest to ban pupils from taking smartphones to school – opting instead for a rather archaic option. New year nine pupils, who turn 14 during the school year, will be given Nokia ‘brick’ phones which only make calls and send texts.

From September, the school will issue boys with a Nokia handset that is not connected to the internet and can only be used to make calls and send texts

Prestigious UK boarding school Eton College tells parents of first-year students to leave smartphones at home

Eton College is to ban new pupils from taking smartphones to school and will provide them with Nokia “bricks” instead. The £49,000-a-year school has written to the families of a new cohort of pupils about the policy,