The Mr Bean star plays the title role in Quartermaine's Terms, Simon Gray's 1981 tragi-comedy about teachers at an English language school.
But with its medical and legal services, and the English language school it ran for the company's thousands of immigrant workers, the department appears to have done more good than harm.
There are not enough pupils to justify a complete new school, but the parents do not want to make do with a unit in an English language medium school.
And despite years of mandatory English-language classes in secondary school, the Japanese score lowest among rich countries on English tests.
Clairsville, Ohio to start an English-language offshore medical school that would put Yife's bare-bones school to shame.
He told me his biggest challenge in education wasn't budget holes, it wasn't crumbling schools -- it was that the parents were too demanding. (Laughter.) He's had to import thousands of foreign teachers because parents insisted on English language training in elementary school.
It has a dedicated foreign-language school with international teachers and touts its English-language teaching skills, the foreign studies of many of its faculty members and its alliances with foreign schools.
And the majority of the kids at the school are ESL, English as a second language.
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Although they go to a Welsh-language school, his daughter Seren and son Ruairi speak English to each other.
School-age children who speak a language other than English at home are one of the fastest-growing populations.
An English learner's entrance into the public school system usually starts with a home language survey, which asks whether another language is used at home and which language the child speaks most frequently.
This is a new measurement of how many candidates in a school achieve good GCSE grades in English, maths, two sciences, a language and either history or geography.
The language barrier does not affect the majority, but for those who enter school as English learners the challenges are even greater.
Singapore's Nanyang Business School offers a Chinese-language executive MBA and from next year will have an English version.
This is not a new qualification in itself, but a way of measuring how many pupils in a school pass GCSEs in a science, language and history or geography, as well as English and maths.
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