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UK rankings: how you did last summer

Melanie Butler reports on updated British kind of traditional boarding run schools continue to punch
Council inspection results from summer 2018 school that is the strongest well above their weight. Victoria
sector in the rankings. School of English and St Brelade’s
Summer is the busiest time of first inspection with twelve Much more unusual is the Jersey, both established in 1978
year for the British Council areas out of a possible fifteen. junior operation of a major – the same year as the Gazette –
Inspectors and a wave of their Wimbledon’s School of English chain, Regent. In a sector are welcome new entries, while
findings have been published is just behind, achieving ten where the big names tend to ECS (as English Country Schools
since the EL Gazette last ran points in just its second year of underperform, Regent Summer is now called) continues to climb
the full listing of our Centres of operation. Schools is the only operation upwards.
Excellence in September. Overall, Summer Boarding with the best score in the chain. But the most extraordinary
Having trawled through the Courses comes in top – the first Indeed, there are only two large story is in the university sector
publishable statements in every summer operator in the country chains where the junior summer where Liverpool has zoomed up
new report, and calculating every to achieve a perfect school and school operations hit the to second position. With 13 out
area of strength and subtracting just nosing in ahead of Discovery rankings, the other being British of 15 it comes in just under the
every need for improvement we Summer whose report had one Study Centres. top ranking summer school: the
are delighted to announce that little problem in the area of Another chain, value University of Manchester, which
a record 17 new centres have publicity, and meant they came operator Oxford House College, also has 13, but out of only14
scores of eight areas of strength in with 14 areas. makes its first appearance in possible areas of strength, since
or more, and are thus new It is not surprising that our charts, while the Kings it doesn’t take under-18s. And
Centres of Excellence. summer schools predominate group now has three of its four the third highest ranking uni is
The list of new entrants is led in a list of schools inspected year-round schools scoring ten new entrant Edge Hill, located
by Edge Hill University, which between June and September. points or above. International between the two with 12 out of 14
has broken the record for the The seven summer winners House Newcastle, up to 12 areas of strength (a score it shares
highest score ever awarded on include Stonyhurst, run by the areas of strength, continues the with Brighton).
IH tradition of reaching the This means that the North
top ten per cent of schools in West of England now dominates
NEW CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE the country, based on its latest the university language centre
(number of areas of strength in British Council publishable rankings – one reason, perhaps,
British Council summary statements, after statement. that this region is becoming a
needs for improvement are deducted) Long-established, family- powerhouse of UK EFL.

Edge Hill University (12)
Chichester College (10)
Kings Brighton (10)
Regent Summer School (10)
Stonyhurst Language Schools (10)
Victoria School of English (10)
Wimbledon Schools of English
Junior Summer Courses (10)
Embassy English London (9)
EF Eastbourne (9)
INTO QUB (9)
St Brelade’s College Jersey (9)
UK Language Centres (9)
Churchill House Summer Centres (8)
Kensington Academy (8)
Leeds School of English (8)
Oxford House College London (8)
Swansea University (8)

RISING UP THE RANKINGS

Summer Boarding Courses (15)
Bell Cambridge, Discovery Summer (14)
Liverpool University (13)
International House Newcastle (12)
Kaplan International Bath (11)
English Country Schools (10)
Leeds University (9)

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