How UK private schools’ overseas satellites can bring in large sums

theguardian.com:

H aileybury and Imperial Service College, to give the school its full title, grew out of the East India Company with a mission to train the soldiers and functionaries of Britain’s empire. But in a modern twist, Haileybury’s latest mission is to “provide a rigorous and highly regarded British education in Bangladesh” when it opens a satellite boarding school there later this year, to go with two satellite schools in Kazakhstan.

Haileybury describes its relationships with its satellites as “partnerships”. While Haileybury is a registered charity, the income from its overseas operations goes to Haileybury Enterprises Limited (HEL), a subsidiary described as supplying services to the school on “international educational advice and consultancy”.

HEL’s accounts for 2020-21 show it made £1.4m from “overseas educational activities”. HEL employs no staff, “as all services were supplied by [Haileybury], for which a fee was charged”. Its major outgoing last year was a gift-aided donation of nearly £1m to Haileybury.

Haileybury did not respond to inquiries from the Guardian about its overseas satellites. The school is also a sponsor of a state academy, Haileybury Turnford secondary school in Hertfordshire.

Haileybury’s arrangement is common at many other charitable private schools in England. Dulwich College, which has links to a dozen overseas satellites, uses a for-profit subsidiary named DCOE to license the college’s name and intellectual property to a third company, Dulwich College Management International (DCMI), with DCOE donating its taxable profits on to Dulwich College.

Dulwich’s charitable accounts state: “DCMI and the international schools it operates are owned and run independently of the College and DCEO.”

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