Shining Star International School celebrates 10 glorious years with ‘GOOD’ rating from ADEK
https://gulfnews.com/gn-focus/shining-star-international-school-celebrates-10-glorious-years-with-good-rating-from-adek-1.500025329
Mergers and acquisitions to fuel Saudi education growth
https://www.agbi.com/education/2024/12/mergers-acquisitions-saudi-arabia-education-growth/
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Managing the crisis – the initial experience of introducing distance learning in our schools
With few exceptions, the world’s school systems – both public and private – were unprepared for the conditions created by COVID-19. This is a rapid look at what I have seen happening. First Take The lockdown approach adopted by most countries, designed to limit the spread of COVID-19 and to relieve pressure on medical services,
Now is the time to talk about quality…
The UAE education news cycle over the past 5 weeks has been relentless, as the race to be first has ignited a spate of click-bait headlines, in amongst the genuine stories about the impact of COVID-19 on the sector. Parents, teachers, investors, school groups and regulators have been forced to confront some of their greatest
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Leadership during Crisis
I have Jenni Kincaid to thank for this insight. Jenni and I were thinking out loud – across continents – about the lessons being learned about educational leadership during this crisis of lockdown and separation. Personally, I can see a difference between schools not just relating to their choice of distance learning solution. I can
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When Teacher A, Teacher B and Teacher C work from home
A famous and brilliant passage of writing about effective teaching is called, ‘Imagine Three Teachers’. Written in 1991 by cognitive scientists Scardamalia and Bereiter, the passage is a thought experiment that compares three classroom teachers: Teacher A, Teacher B and Teacher C. The strength of the passage is that the Teachers appear at first glance
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The talk is everywhere of Online Learning
And so Coronavirus brings Online Learning and the Virtual School into the spotlight. Up to this point, our schools have clung on dearly to their bricks and mortar tradition. A physical centre, a place of learning, a workplace for teachers, a social centre, a community hub. Assembly rooms, science laboratories, music practice rooms, tech facilities,
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Doctoring the results
You have to enjoy this. The BBC reports that there have now been 30 years of UK exam results where girls have consistently out-performed boys. I can’t claim the credit (or blame?) but I do remember when I joined the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER) in the early 1980s, that the future was in the air.
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Even the Rising Sun
This week, my education journey takes me to Japan. You wouldn’t immediately think that Japan would be opening up to private international schools. This country has great PISA and TIMSS results and stands as one of the best-performing Government school systems in the world. The schools are free to the national population, who are sophisticated,
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Mature, diversify, and open new ground
In the last two years, the pioneering territories for international schools in the UAE and China have hit some problems. China is posing regulatory challenges from time to time, which impacts enrolment numbers and the predictability of any ramp-up. While the UAE has experienced an economic slowdown much like the rest of the world and
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