An English-language school has become a “ghost school” with no students for two summers due to Covid restrictions. Teacher Dan Methven says the Anglolang school in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, is empty for the second year in a row.
The school in the seaside town usually has 2,500 students coming for English lessons every year from Spain, Italy and elsewhere.
It is one of many in a sector that has been battered during the Covid pandemic. Manager Alison Drew says language schools for overseas fee-paying students have been a “forgotten industry” during the pandemic, according to the BBC. "Imagine any business with 16 months of no money", says Mr Methven, a senior teacher at the school. "Missing one summer was inconceivable, missing two is