Sentence examples for overseas pupils from inspiring English sources

"Parents will have serious questions for the Prime Minister about opening up schools to overseas pupils".

Excluding overseas pupils, 490,000 British residents are currently attending independent schools, compared with 491,000 in 2008.

Boarding schools today welcomed a reversal of 20 years of decline with the announcement that numbers rose by 1%, with around 8,000 new overseas pupils admitted.

Many boarding schools rely on an intake of overseas pupils and a strong EAL department is essential to making a success of this strategy.

British independent schools are recruiting strongly abroad and estimate overseas pupils - more than 16,600 in total - bring in at least £271m per year in currency earnings.

Last month figures from the Independent Schools Council revealed a stunning increase in the number of Russian pupils studying at UK private schools, up from 816 in 2007 (3.9% of all overseas pupils) to 2,150 in 2013 (8.3%).

Take Britain, where boarding-school fees for an overseas pupil are on average around £16,000 ($25,000) a year about ten times the average annual income of an urban Chinese household.

Perhaps the first overseas public school pupils of all were the four Russians who arrived in England in 1602 to learn English, visiting Eton and Winchester, with the aid of Giles Fletcher, England's erstwhile ambassador to Moscow and an Old Etonian.

Independent schools in Britain appear to have weathered the economic downturn with record numbers now attending fee-paying private schools – although the rise is underpinned by increasing numbers of pupils from overseas.

Only 5% of our pupils have homes overseas, a proportion that has been stable for years".

At St Joseph's Catholic primary in Bradford, where more than 60% of children are new to English, pupils who speak overseas languages are now paired with two buddies, one speaking their home language and the other proficient in English.