The number of Russians at British private schools is rising as the rarefied world of Harry Potter is increasingly seen as a fashionable passport to a better life It is summer term at Maidwell Hall prep school. The boys and girls are back from holidays. Among them, and fresh off the plane from St Petersburg, is a new Russian pupil, Gosha Nikolayev. "I'm a bit scared and a bit excited," Gosha says. His father, Sergei, has come to the UK with his 11-year-old son to drop him off. If all goes well Go...
The number of Russians at British private schools is rising as the rarefied world of Harry Potter is increasingly seen as a fashionable passport to a better life It is summer term at Maidwell Hall prep school. The boys and girls are back from holidays. Among them, and fresh off the plane from St Petersburg, is a new Russian pupil, Gosha Nikolayev. "I'm a bit scared and a bit excited," Gosha says. His father, Sergei, has come to the UK with his 11-year-old son to drop him off. If all goes well Go...
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