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More UK schools are focusing on under-16s Top 20 juniors
both in the summer and year-round. Melanie
1 Summer Boarding Courses
Butler examines their results.
2 Discovery Summer
he private sector market for Young learners specialist are
young learners is changing. generally bunched in the middle of 3 ISCA School of English*
No longer confined to summer the rankings with statistically fewer
Tschools, an increasing number than expected right at the bottom 4 St Giles International Highgate**
of operators now report that all or most and more at the top. Two summer
of their year-round enrolments come multicentres, SBC and Discovery Wimbledon School of English Juniors*
from under 16s. Summer, even beat all the boarding ECS Winchcombe*
There are now 92 young learner schools, though that sector as a whole =5 Manor Courses, Brighton*
specialists, an increasing number of which remains stronger. Regent Summer Schools
operate year-round. Summer multi-centre The young learners top twenty is Sidmouth International School***
operator UKLC, for example, has just dominated by family-owned operators
announced that it will run closed group with both summer schools, like ISCA, Bell Young Learners
courses outside the summer. and year-round operators Sidmouth Bucksmore Education
These include many private and The English Experience. Fewer Churchill House Summer Centres*
language schools, like St Giles chains have schools in the top 20 =10 International Student Club*
Highgate, which previously enrolled for juniors than we see in the adult
mostly adults; while more adult sector. St Giles International Eastbourne**
specialists, like Wimbledon School of A further analysis of results based UKLC**
English, are launching separate junior on ownership structure, however,
summer programmes. reveals the weakest results, both in British Study Centres Juniors
Young learner specialists have a the summer and year-round, are to Cambridge Language and Activity Courses*
different statistical profile from the be found in operations owned or part- =16 The English Experience***
adult market. On average they score owned by language travel agents. Exportise*
the same 4.5 net areas of strength. But According to the information Globe English Centre**
their most common score for junior provided to the British Council, some
operations is four, while in the adult twenty percent of all junior operations *family-run
market the most common result is one are owned or run by agencies based **year round
single area of strength. overseas. ***family-run year-round

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