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Overseas students——How to ruin a global brand
留学生：一个世界级品牌没落之路
Foreign students are going off English universities
留学生正在逐渐远离英国高校
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BRITAIN'S private schools are one of its most successful exports. The children of the well-heeled flock to them, whether from China, Nigeria or Russia: the number of foreign pupils rose by 1.4% in the last year alone. One headmaster recently asked a room full of pupils whether they flew business class to Britain. Only a few hands went up, suggesting they were not quite as cosseted as he had thought. Then a boy explained: many of the pupils fly first class instead.
英国的私立学校可以说是英国最成功的“出口商品”之一。在这些学校里，无论是来自中国、尼日利亚或是俄罗斯，富有的学生比比皆是：仅去年一年，留学生的数量就增长了1.4%。最近有一位校长查访了一间满寝的宿舍，并询问他们是否乘坐商务客舱飞到英国。寥寥无几的人举起了手，以表明实际上他们并不像他所想的那样娇生惯养。随后一名男孩解释道：许多学生都没有乘坐头等舱。
Yet foreign students, whether educated in British private schools or elsewhere, are decreasingly likely to go to English universities. According to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, 307,200 overseas students began their studies in the country in 2012-13, down from 312,000 two years earlier and the first drop in 29 years. Student numbers from the rest of the EU fell—probably a result of the increase in annual tuition fees in England from 6,000 (10,000)a ...
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