Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
It would appear that all is not well on the educational front in the UK, even in the expensive independent school sector.
One leading organ reported that second-rate private schools are packing their boarding houses with overseas pupils to fill a growing number of empty spaces.
Struggling schools have ‘houses full of mature Chinese pupils who refuse to join house activities’, the latest edition of The Good Schools Guide suggests.
Increasingly, as fees have slipped out of the reach of many UK parents and the economic downturn affects pupil numbers, some boarding schools are exploiting rich families abroad, the guide says.
Interestingly, the leading British-curriculum schools in the kingdom often state that their strength lies in the diversity of their pupils and annually celebrate that fact with parades of children flying their ‘home’ country flags.
