#330 Private School

Private schools in the UK are redoubling their marketing efforts to foreigners. Almost a third of the 68,000 boarding pupils at such schools [1] come from overseas. But now, with many UK residents [2] or unable to afford the fees and a cultural [3] away from boarding, many schools are looking abroad to survive. Overseas students now [4] for about 500m pounds of fee income a year for boarding schools in the UK.