The Spectator

Uncommon entrances

issue 14 March 2015

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.

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