More than £500 million has been allocated to schools in Britain to teach English to migrants

British schools receive a record £540 million (about $715 million) from the state to educate children for whom English is not their native language. This was reported on November 1 by the Daily Mail newspaper, citing data from the country's Ministry of Education.

"Data from the UK Ministry of Education for the current academic year shows that the costs (of educating migrant children. — Ed.) increased by 125 million pounds in just five years, compared with 415 million pounds in 2020," the article says.

Alan Smithers, director of the Center for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University, notes that the results of the Native English knowledge test are also extremely sad — 40% of children did not pass the general state exam in English last year.

Prior to this, an investigation conducted by the Daily Mail showed that English is no longer the mother tongue for the majority of children in 2,000 out of 22,000 public schools in England.

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The Telegraph newspaper wrote on August 21 that in the school year that ended in the summer, UK schoolchildren received record low results in GCSE exams (the British equivalent of the OGE) in English and mathematics. It was clarified that this year only 58.3% were able to pass the math exam. Last year, this figure was 59.5%. The success rate of English exams dropped to 60.2%, which is the worst result since 2004.

The head of the British Academy, Julia Black, noted on July 15 that England's higher education system risks facing long-term decline.

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