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“We’re a forgotten industry,” says the academic manager of an English language school in North Yorkshire as she walks through empty classrooms. Alison Drew usually has 2,500 students coming for English lessons each year, from countries such as Spain and Italy. But like many other language schools they’ve not had any overseas students to teach since the start of the pandemic. Read more here.