Turkey is one of the busiest places for entrepreneurs and investors in schools. Today I am at the event, Educashow, organised brilliantly by my friends at Boyut. Here is the link to the slide set I am using today: Boyut Presentation.
In Istanbul for the Conference season Read More »
We produced a new year newsletter for our BBD friends in the Middle East and suddenly realised how much progress has been made by all our friends and clients. New schools opened, further schools advanced to win their licences. Two competitions won, in Qatar and Singapore. A flow of Academic Plans. Many congratulations to everyone and thank
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This last week has been all about Principals. I have several great friends who are making their way in international education as school leaders and they have fantastic stories to tell. Because they are at the leading edge of this revolutionary growth in independent, international schooling. Four such friends crossed my path this week, each
A Matter of Principals Read More »
Off to Dubai tomorrow, to open the sixth form centre at Al Diyafah High School. The new facility is dedicated to the Mother, sadly deceased, of the family who own the School. Winnie would be incredibly proud of what her daughter and son-in-law have made of their project. There are good families at the heart
Al Diyafah: ‘shine a light’ Read More »
Marcel joined me in running a set of strategy workshops last week, in Cairo and Upper Egypt. We are finding that we are being asked to provide more and more help to investors at the point of ‘buy’ or ‘sell’. Marcel has probably been engaged in over half the big deals in education, worldwide, over
University challenge Read More »
A very powerful way to change the conversation with students and parents is to introduce a dialogue about Strengths into your school. There are useful (and free) questionnaires on the Penn University website, overseen by the excellent psychologist Martin Seligman. They help students uncover their relative strengths (stop worrying about the weaknesses for a minute!)
Find their Strengths Read More »
Our friends and clients at SOBHA Group have pulled off a great achievement by partnering with North London Collegiate School, in London, to win the open competition for a new school in Singapore. Congratulations to all involved, including the excellent Parthenon group, who were very active in providing data and analytics. Their wholehearted commitment to
Just caught up with Educators International and the incredible work that has been done this year by Michael Stark, Sue Hackman and others to launch mobile content and teacher training in Ghana, for 1000 community teachers and their students in rural areas. This is serious work which is very cleverly designed and executed. Hats off,
Educators International Read More »
The international assessments undertaken regularly by PISA reveal just as much as they do about Parents’ role in student success as about the role of Schools. Andreas Schleisser explains, “just asking your child how was their school day and showing genuine interest in the learning that they are doing can have the same impact as
How about better Parents? Read More »
One of my great interests is Enterprise Education. It is important to make it authentic and at the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy, we have been pioneering approaches that mean students come ‘booted and suited’ on Day One of a year’s course, they work 9 till 5, and they start up their own business too. For
