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Accommodation chosen by international students
Remco Weeda
from Scarborough
College talks to 93% BOARDING
us...

“For some time now, the Chinese
and Hong Kong markets have been 2% 1% 4%
in steady decline and UK boarding
schools have found themselves OWN HOMESTAY OTHER
having to diversify. For Scarborough RELATIVES

College, it has not been difficult to

market to different nationalities. As

a school that offers the IB Diploma
Programme at Sixth Form instead
of A-Levels, we naturally receive
enquiries from a wide variety of
nationalities. Marketing the IBDP is
relatively simple because overseas International students by age range 2018/19
agents know the IBDP and they know (2018/19 and 2023/24) 2023/24
its strength. It is much harder to get
these strengths across in countries 50%
like China because the A-Levels
is an established brand.” https:// 40%
scarboroughcollege.co.uk/

30%

Jake Wilson from 20%
The National
Mathematics &
Science College 10% 6%
talks to us... 2% 4% 3% 18% 21% 34% 37% 43% 32%
0%
“More UK boarding schools are Under 11 11-12 13-14 15-16 17-18
attending education fairs etc in years years years years years
non-traditional, newer markets in

an effort to diversify. The Chinese
UK boarding school market collapsed Tuition and accommodation fees for a
during the Covid pandemic. UK grade 11 international student (2023/24)
schools are currently travelling
to North and South America, the LOWEST AVERAGE HIGHEST
Balkans, Middle East, North Africa GB£33,000 GB£44,007 GB£48,750
US$41,985
US$55,989
US$62,023
to explore and develop new student
recruitment markets. Also, some UK
boarding schools are seeing more GB£ 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000
GCSE and Pre-A-Level applications
from 14- and 15-year-olds, and *Converted using currency rates for 01/01/2024
a number of the selective UK
independent colleges have started Thank you to the schools who part in our survey on UK secondary schools for this
offering GCSEs to benefit from this issue. A full list of the schools who took part can be found on our website:

trend.” https://natmatsci.ac.uk/ https://studytravel.network/magazine/issues/853
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