Top EU schools see applications dip as COVID compounds Brexit delays


  • World
  • Wednesday, 02 Sep 2020

A general view of Frankfurt International School 's campus in Oberursel, Germany September, 2016. Frankfurt International School/Handout via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has forced some British-based families to put Brexit-related plans to move to the European Union on hold, leaving some top international schools wondering when a predicted surge in new applications will materialise.

Thousands of staff - and their school-age children - could relocate from London as financial firms reorganise to maintain a presence in the European single market, and this had been expected to benefit schools in the region.

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