Getting your child into a decent school has long been high on a parent’s list of priorities, and British parents now have to compete with foreign parents for whom £30,000 a year is small change. It is for people like these, Will Heaven explains, that many of our top schools are opening branches as far afield as Seoul, Kazakhstan and Shanghai.
Even if you can afford the fees, getting your child into a good private school is hard, because the best ones are vastly oversubscribed, as Ysenda Maxtone Graham writes. What can you do about it? Lydia Hansell suggests the new ‘super-tutors’, who do far more than your child’s maths homework.
If you have managed to get your child into the school of your choice, then Lara Prendergast is on hand with a run-down of the uniform tribes they might be expected to conform to, while James Delingpole explains what to expect at your next parents’ evening. And if you haven’t, well, it’s not the end of the world. Sebastian Payne tells the story of his recovery from rejection by the school he applied to at the age of ten.
We’ve also included a handy guide to Easter revision courses, Ed Cumming explores the wilder shores of the school trip, Mark Palmer sings the praises of school reunions and Edward Bell and I discuss choir schools. I hope you enjoy reading all this and more, and do keep an eye out for the next issue of Spectator Schools, out in September.
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