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.

Even if you can afford the fees, getting your child into a good private school is hard, because the best ones are vastly oversubscribed, as Ysenda Maxtone Graham writes. What can you do about it? Lydia Hansell suggests the new ‘super-tutors’, who do far more than your child’s maths homework.

If you have managed to get your child into the school of your choice, then Lara Prendergast is on hand with a run-down of the uniform tribes they might be expected to conform to, while James Delingpole explains what to expect at your next parents’ evening.

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