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UK private schools rush to expand overseas as profits soar

12-03-2023 16:00

Forty schools took in record £29m in 2020-21 from satellites, including in developing countriesEnglish private schools are rushing to open lucrative satellite academies abroad, including in some of the world’s poorest countries, to funnel back millions of pounds in profits to pay for their charitable obligations.Cambodia, Bangladesh and Vietnam are among the latest targets for English private schools aiming to expand overseas, in many cases in partnership with property developers loo

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How UK private schools’ overseas satellites can bring in large sums

12-03-2023 16:00

Foreign partnership arrangements are common at many charitable private schools Haileybury and Imperial Service College, to give the school its full title, grew out of the East India Company with a mission to train the soldiers and functionaries of Britain’s empire. But in a modern twist, Haileybury’s latest mission is to “provide a rigorous and highly regarded British education in Bangladesh” when it opens a satellite boarding school there later this year, to go with two

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Somali ‘rehab’: re-education camps where children are locked up, beaten and abused

12-03-2023 12:00

Westernised children of Somalis are being forcibly detained for years ‘back home’ in unregulated, brutal dhaqan celis sites where sexual abuse is rifeIt was not until Fadumo* was sitting in an unfamiliar room on Mogadishu’s outskirts, and the smile vanished from her mother’s face, that the 16-year-old realised she was not going on holiday to Dubai.In retrospect, there had been clues before they left England, when her mother suddenly announced, in 2022, that the two of the

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School heads in England prepare for new strike ballot as pay talks stall

12-03-2023 09:00

NAHT blames education secretary Gillian Keegan’s refusal to negotiate until teacher stoppages are called offHeadteachers may soon be reballoted for strike action to escalate pressure on the government, as their union described the chances of talks over pay as a “false hope”.All four education unions expressed disbelief and exasperation after education secretary Gillian Keegan turned down their request for negotiations mediated by the official conciliation service Acas to end th

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One in five students at top universities consider dropping out over cost of living

12-03-2023 07:00

A quarter are regularly going without food and other essentials, a new Russell Group Students’ Unions study revealsOne in five students at Russell Group universities are considering dropping out because of the cost of living crisis, and a quarter are regularly going without food and other essentials, the Observer can reveal.In the largest study of its kind, new research by the Russell Group Students’ Unions – which represents 24 of Britain’s most elite higher education in

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