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MARKET REPORT: LONDON & SCOTLAND .

Secret London bargains

Melanie Butler finds great value schools outside the city centre

utside Central London there is a only one in leafy north-west Greenwich. To nearly always better. The London School of
clear correlation between price the west, in Chiswick, is a branch of London English, for example, is more than a century
and quality – though that doesn’t School of English, and the village branch old.
Omean the most expensive schools of Eurocentres is located in the grounds of Our secret gem, though, is relatively
are necessarily the best. It simply means that Eltham Palace. new. The branch of Oxford House College,
all the top value schools cost between £13 Standing alone for value in Zone 2 is our Richmond, may come seventh in our overall
and £21 pounds an hour, a much narrower old friend TTi – the long-established student table, but it has one huge secret weapon: its
price range than in Central London. location.
The best value school in our chart, the The London villages It is the only accredited school in
Wimbledon School of English, is one of dominate this value chart, Richmond, the richest and most liberal
only two schools in the UK to ever achieve borough in England and home, according to
a perfect score on inspection and, the first with British Study Centres a friend of mine who used to run a summer
school ever to do it twice in a row. All that for Hampstead leading school there, to some of the best host families
£16 an hour. How do they do it? Turn to the in the capital.
interview on page 34 to find out. a group of the three
Wimbledon, of course, is the quintessential neighbouring
English village, known for its historic houses, Best value schools outside Central
huge green common and, of course, its tennis North London gems London
club. It is home not only to the best school in
London but two other good value schools. favourite in Camden Town. Most of the other 1. Wimbledon School of English
The London villages dominate this value schools in the inner-city student centres are 2. Eurocentres Eltham
chart, with British Study Centres Hampstead new and very cheap but simply not of the 3. BSC Hampstead
leading a group of the three neighbouring quality found in some of the lower-priced 4. London School of English
North London gems: Hampstead, Highgate schools in the centre. 5. St Giles Highate
6. Excel English Muswell Hill
and, the home of Excel English, Muswell Hill. This should come as no surprise – only one = 7 Oxford House Richmond, LSI
Twin English Centre is the only one of of the top 20 language schools in England, Hampstead
the growing number of schools setting up in based on their inspection results, is under 40 9. Twin English Centre, Greenwich
the historic river port of Greenwich to make years-old. The truth of the matter, when it 10. TTI Camden Town
it above the value line, while KKCL is the comes to British education, is that older is

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Graph 1: London schools outside the centre by value (all data checked as at May 31 2018).
B-Burlington School of English; D-Docklands Academy; E-Edwards Language School; F-EF International London; G-Embassy English London;
J-Eynsford College, London; K-Golders Green College; L-Islington Centre for English; M-Kings London; O-LAL London; S-Oxford International,
London Greenwich; U-Purley Language College; Y- West London English School;
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