As I travel I like to ask school chains, what are your educational assets? If the answer is, “it’s our teachers”, I worry about all that high turnover in the international field. If the answer is “mainly, it’s our schools”, I worry about the missed opportunities. You see, I have commented before about the Copernican shift that …
Interesting times for GEMS, the international schools chain with a customised school model at almost every price. The news of their successful move on Ma’arif in Saudi Arabia, another school chain, is out and now they can enjoy having a large Acquisition under their belt. I almost added, “at last” because, in their sixty years …
In the Middle East, we entered a new phase of maturity in the schools market a couple of years ago. Supply of private schools increased in many countries and demand softened for some market segments. That brought in an Age of Competition which is great for consumers and for quality. It also brought a new …
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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