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Private schools in the UK are redoubling their marketing efforts to foreigners. Almost a third of the 68,000 boarding pupils at such schools oftenalreadyyetnever already come from overseas. But now, with many UK residents uncapableeagerafraidunwilling unwilling or unable to afford the fees – top boarding schools are edging towardsalongawaydown towards £30,000 ($49,759) a year – and a cultural transferchangeswitchshift shift away from boarding, many schools are looking abroad to survive.

Overseas students now countaccountallocateportion account for about £500m of fee income a year for boarding schools in the UK. They come from Hong Kong, China, Germany, Russia and Spain, as well as from Africa, South Korea and other parts of Europe. Catholic schools sell into South America and Spain. At Roedean, the renowned school for girls, 40 per cent of the children are foreign.