A summer at a British school, or a term inside one, can teach a child more about themselves than a year of being told. We choose programmes with that in mind: summer schools and academic programmes of standing in Britain and Europe, accredited by universities or run by British independent schools themselves, each chosen for what it will draw out of a particular child. Our students go with people who know them — the same advisers and AEGIS-accredited guardians who are with them through the school year — and come home to a team that reads what the experience has shown, and builds on it.
Drawing on long experience and established relationships with schools in Britain, we work with leading international schools in China to design term placements for their pupils. Each placement is arranged school by school: students join a British class, as members of it, for a period of study that brings their own school’s international curriculum to life, widens the paths open to them, and lays the ground for study abroad later.
A whole class from an international school in China spends a full term at a historic British boarding school: living in, and taking their place in lessons, in teams and on the stage. The choice of school, enrolment and visas, briefings before departure, guardianship in Britain, the school’s weekly updates relayed to parents, a mid-term report and the journey home are carried by our programme team.
Since 2023 we have held events in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chengdu at which senior figures from British education answer families’ questions and speak about how Britain’s leading schools think, how they are changing, and how pupils find their way into them.