Last week, I visited Singapore where my friends at the Global Schools Foundation (GSF) have built a new ‘smart’ school. I have known GSF for 7 or 8 years now and they are a special group of people. They oversee a fast-moving and energetic school chain that has schools throughout Asia, including Japan which is …
I want to continue on a theme I started recently. You see, there is a not a simple route to improving pedagogy and we can do a lot of damage by suggesting that there is. An allegory will help and I am sorry for the inevitable generalisation. With global pedagogy, it is best to recognise …
International schools have grown at a fantastic rate in the last 20 years and one of my favourite statistics is the difference between the number of teachers in International Schools in the year 2000 (about 90,000 teachers) compared with 2017 (over 460,000). That means that the number of teachers in International Schools today is equal …
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The Competitive Landscape of School Admissions in Dubai As you drive around Dubai, it’s clear to everyone, that certain schools are investing significant amounts of money on outdoor advertising. Whilst driving around Dubai, listening to the radio, it’s also very clear that schools are spending significant amounts on radio advertising. The billboard advert has made …
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Last week saw the launch in Dubai of a branch of North London Collegiate School or NLCS Dubai. The school’s name may not have carried as far around the world as that of Eton, Winchester and Harrow but, make no mistake, this is one of the UK’s very best schools. NLCS has an outstanding heritage as well, based …
Throughout my career as a teacher and education leader, I have been trying to understand teachers’ training better, because you would think that the profession would be good at it; but it isn’t. It was refreshing to read Lorna Eagle’s foreword to this very good New Zealand study by Helen Timperley and others. Lorna points …
Teacher recruitment in the UK is at a crisis point. I have joined with a group of colleagues to launch an INTERN programme for schools in the UK, largely because teacher recruitment has been allowed to slip to levels that are too low for our future needs. I have long believed that the UK should …
In one of my favourite reports on teaching and learning – the distinguished 2000 study of cognitive science published by John Bransford (et al.) for the US National Research Council, titled ‘How People Learn’ – there is a beautiful piece of writing about what makes for great teaching. It is called, “Imagine Three Teachers”. It is a …
For us, Qatar had been quiet through 2012 and 2013 but it is now one of our busier venues. First, we won three school licences for clients in Lusail City. Now we have a great opportunity for a UK school to partner us in a venture in Doha. We have started work with a Doha investor, …
Doha is growing at a rapid rate and international schools are high in demand. Good news for our credibility as school planners. We hear from Lusail City in Qatar that we have won our third licence for clients in the open competition to operate schools in the emerging World Cup city.. That means we have …
