Hong Kong student numbers at UK private schools experienced a record decline after Britain imposed a 20 per cent tax on fees last year, with total enrolment falling by 17 per cent and new admissions down by 26 per cent.<\/p>\n
A consultant specialising in student recruitment for British private schools said enrolment levels had returned to those seen before Hong Kong\u2019s emigration wave, with parents becoming more selective as costs rose.<\/p>\n
According to an annual census by the United Kingdom\u2019s Independent Schools Council (ISC), the number of overseas pupils fell 7 per cent, from 61,750 to 57,214.<\/p>\n
Conducted each January, the survey captured the full impact of the value-added tax (VAT) policy, which was introduced midway through the previous academic year.<\/p>\n
\u201cPupil numbers from Hong Kong have also fallen, continuing a downward trend in recent years, with a marked decrease in the latest year,\u201d the ISC said.<\/p>\n
The decline in Hong Kong students outpaced the global average and most other regions. Hong Kong recorded the largest drop in absolute numbers and the second-largest percentage decline, behind only Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong student numbers at UK private schools experienced a record decline after Britain imposed a 20 per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[228713,18944,59,57,58,6875,228710,50,154,228712,23727,56,54,55,128427,228711,23753],"class_list":["post-685978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-britannia-studylink","tag-british-government","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-hong-kong","tag-independent-schools-council","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-samuel-chan-sze-ming","tag-scmp","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-value-added-tax","tag-valued-added-tax","tag-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}