BBC News
By Sean Coughlan
For English language schools, the vocabulary that's been most important in recent times has been "empty".
Because since the pandemic began last year, many language schools have not had any overseas students to teach.
Dan Methven, who teaches in the Anglolang school in Scarborough, says for two summers now they have had a "ghost school" without students.
English UK, representing language schools, says the sector, worth £1.4bn each year, is in danger of collapse.
Language schools have complained that their problems have been overlooked, with fee-paying overseas students still staying away because of worries about Covid and travel restrictions.