Summary
When choosing a boarding school in the UK, apart from rankings, you should also pay attention to the ratio of international students to boarding students. But how do you define the boundary? Welcome to Maxway Education for more information.
First of all, you need to understand the British secondary school system . It is a 7-year secondary school system, and the last 4 years are for 2 public examinations: GCSE and A level. Therefore, choosing the appropriate time to go to school in the UK : Year 7 (11 years old), Year 9 (13 years old) and Year 12 (16 years old) will give you more choices of British boarding schools. The application time for British boarding schools is the summer vacation of the year before school starts. Registration is in October, and the entrance examination is in November, followed by an interview.
Because the UK starts primary one a year earlier than Hong Kong, the age of the UK secondary school system is one year faster than that of Hong Kong. Hong Kong students have the opportunity to skip grades, that is, after finishing Form 4 in Hong Kong, they can go to the UK to study A level (Form 6, Form 7), skipping Form 5 (Year 11). Do you want to know the course options for students from Form 1 to Form 5 in the UK? Welcome to learn more about: UK course options .
There are more than 500 boarding schools in the UK, but 75% of them have less than half of their students living on campus. In London, less than 3% of their students live on campus, and most of them are day students. There are three types of boarding in UK boarding schools: Full, Flexi, and Weekly boarding.
• Full Boarding means living on campus 7 days a week.
• Flexi Boarding means that parents can reserve boarding time for their children each semester as needed.
• Weekly Boarding means that students live on campus from Monday to Thursday and go home on weekends.
As students get older, 90% of students in Year 12 and 13 in UK boarding schools are full boarders. If you choose a UK secondary school with a high proportion of full boarding students or students living on campus, your children will have more fulfilling weekends and will be less homesick.
To be honest, the cost of boarding schools in the UK is not something that ordinary working families in Hong Kong or the UK can easily afford. Tuition, accommodation, and guardians add up to 450,000 to 500,000 Hong Kong dollars a year. We have been to many industry conferences for British boarding schools, and most of the participants are agents from China, Hong Kong, and a small number of Germany and Russia. This reflects that the price of British boarding schools is only for a small group of people. These small groups must have a shortcut to increase their wealth in order to afford the high cost and the 4% annual fee increase.
According to statistics from the UK's Independent School Council (ISC), 10 years ago, the average number of international students in UK boarding schools was 30%; now it is 40%! Moreover, 44% of international students in UK boarding schools are from China and Hong Kong. Germany ranks third, but only has 7% of students.
• UK secondary school rankings : We classify UK secondary schools from 11 different perspectives to facilitate students with different needs to choose schools, so that you can fully understand the cost-effectiveness of UK boarding schools.
• Tuition fees for studying in secondary schools in the UK : Understand the speed and extent of fee increases and why additional fees are required?
• UKiset : Want to know which UK boarding schools allow UKiset to take their own entrance exams ?
• UK curriculum options details the UK secondary school curriculum options available for UK boarding schools at each year level. You will also have links to articles describing the different UK secondary school curriculum options and how they compare to each other.
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