(3) Private schools abroad | On the Playing Fields of Shanghai; Some of England’s best-known private schools are rushing to set up satellites abroad. But the market may be reaching saturation point.
http://www.economist.com/news/br ... p-satellites-abroad
("In schools with a mixture of locals and foreigners, the Chinese pupils tend to dominate orchestras and maths competitions")
Note:
(a) "Harrow led the way in 1998 by setting up a school in Bangkok, where its straw boaters greatly amused the locals."
boater
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boater
(also straw boater; men's formal summer hat; worn by FBI agents as a sort of unofficial uniform in the pre-war years; nowadays "as part of old-fashioned school uniform, such as at Harrow School. Since 1952, the straw boater hat has been part of the uniform of the Princeton University Band")
(b) "Sherborne, a private school in Dorset, has opened a branch in Qatar"
(i) Sherborne School
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherborne_School
(a boys school; located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England; Established 1550; has close partnerships with the nearby girls' school Sherborne Girls)
(ii) Dorset
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset
(section 1 Toponymy)
(c) "From next year Wellington, a boarding school in Berkshire, will compete for Shanghai’s pupils with Dulwich, a south London day school, which already has a franchise there."
(i) Wellington College, Berkshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_College,_Berkshire
(co-educational; was built as a national monument to the Duke of Wellington, after whom the school was named; Established 1859)
(ii) Dulwich College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulwich_College
(for boys; in Dulwich, London; Established 1619)
(d) "Schools also tout their foreign branches to British parents, who increasingly want their offspring to learn about fast-growing bits of the world and, particularly, to pick up some Chinese (though in practice some offshoots of British private schools in China are so rigidly Anglophone that pupils are told off for speaking the language [the Chinese])."
(i) Anglophone (adj, n; First Known Use 1900):
"consisting of or belonging to an English-speaking population especially in a country where two or more languages are spoken"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anglophone
(ii) tell off (vt): "REPRIMAND, EXCORIATE <told him off for his arrogance>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tell%20off
(e) "Pupils tend to sit the international GCSE, which some consider tougher than the standard British test, and often the International Baccalaureate."
(i) For GCSE, see General Certificate of Secondary Education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen ... Secondary_Education
(ii) International Baccalaureate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Baccalaureate
(f) "Dulwich is the nippiest, with schools in China, Korea and one opening in 2014 in Singapore. It also runs sponsored A-level programmes for Chinese students in Zhuhai in Guangdong province"
(i) nippy (adj): "brisk, quick, or nimble in movement : SNAPPY"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nippy
(ii) For "A-level programmes," see GCE Advanced Level
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCE_Advanced_Level
(g) "The latter arrangement solves an irksome problem for educational expeditionaries."
I do not know what it means. Try as I may, all American and English (including Oxford and Cambridge) online dictionaries have expeditionary as an adjective, not a noun.
(h) "But the King’s School in Canterbury recently pulled out of a partnership there [China], concluding that the constraint was inappropriate given its association with the cathedral, the historic seat of the Church of England."
King’s School, Canterbury
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_School,_Canterbury
(it is often claimed * * * to have been founded in AD 597 by St Augustine [founder of English Church] therefore making it the world's oldest extant school)
Please take notice that all schools above (whether called college or not) matriculate 13- to 18-years-old.
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