For the past five years or so, there has been a growth in corporations buying up independent language schools to create large, multinational chains of schools. This trend has amplified in Britain over the past few years, with the summer of 2015 being weak and agents’ costs rising considerably. The situation is ripe for acquiring British private language schools and that is exactly what is happening. Because of how the strengths and weaknesses of various currencies, the Irish have been in a good position to buy and that is what they have been doing!