100 British Schools in Spain, and according to Francisco Corbí, treasurer and member of the executive of the National Association of British Colleges in Spain

 They are not being affected by the crisis. NABASS held their annual conference on Saturday, and 300 directors and teachers have been analysing together how the British system works abroad, with the goal of establishing fixed criteria for all British colleges outside the U.K. Some 40,000 children, both Spanish and foreigners, study at a British schools, and 12 new centres have opened across the country over the past two years. Corbí says that ‘shows that parents are turning to this type of private education because they want to give something extra to their children’. Corbí also underlined that a British college is not the same as a bilingual college in English, as the British colleges follow 80% of the British curriculum, taught by British teachers with UK qualifications, while the bilingual schools are part of the LOE Spanish system with classes given in English. Most British centres in Spain are in Madrid, Valencia and Málaga, with an average number of 700 students. The normal proportion of 80-90% of Spanish students falls to 60% in the colleges in Málaga, Alicante, Canaries and Baleares.

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