ISC Research: International School Newsletter - January 2010
January 2010 international school newsletter
In This Issue:
- Enhancements to the ISC Research System
- Country Focus: South Africa
- International School News Roundup
- What are the advantages to being a subscriber
- Visit the ISC Research web site
- See a demo of the system in Adobe Flash
Current Market Size
| Current Market Size | |
|---|---|
| Total number of English-medium international schools (not including future schools) | 5,515 |
| Total number of students | 2,491,432 |
| Changes since January 1st 2010 | |
| New school records | 22 |
| Updated (many schools are updated several times a year) | 30 |
| Checked | 258 |
| Heads updated (names and/or email addresses) | 62 |
| Heads checked | 237 |
| Emails changed | 77 |
Enhancements to the ISC Research System
ISC Research has made some significant enhancements to the system's homepage by incorporating a new "dashboard" view. This has improved the user experience and has been designed to make the page navigation more intuitive, easy to use and enables users to quickly find key information they are looking for. When users log on to the system, they will be presented with a new view which includes the following areas:
User-Specific Information:
- Recent logins in the last 30 days and during the last calendar month providing information on actual system usage
- Recent searches conducted in the last 30 days and during the last calendar month
- A list of saved searches allowing users quick access to previous campaigns
- Recent Marketing information including the number of email campaigns sent
- A list of saved email and letter campaigns allowing users to quickly navigate back to previous campaign information.
Calendar & Events. Another significant enhancement to the "dashboard" view is the inclusion of the International Schools Calendar, previously held in a completely different section. The International Schools Calendar is now displayed on log in which allows users quick and easy access to monthly information regarding key International Schools events around the world. Each day that has an event is highlighted and summary event details are listed below that users can quickly select and view.
Market Size. Now included on the homepage is data regarding the market size with a graphical representation of new schools added to the system every month. There is also information regarding the number of schools added by region and the number of changes made to the database records.
International Schools News. ISC Research has now included some recent news items of interest on the homepage, providing users with a "taster" of the news section within the system.
It is ISC Research's policy to continue to develop and enhance our service as appropriate.
Country Focus: South Africa
| International Schools in South Africa | |
|---|---|
| 40 | Total number of schools |
| 14,851 | Total number of students |
| 1,307 | Total number of staff |
| 28 | Number of schools offering education for 3-5 year olds |
| 29 | Number of schools offering education for 5-11 year olds |
| 30 | Number of schools offering education for 11-13 year olds |
| 34 | Number of schools offering education for 13-16 year olds |
| 35 | Number of schools offering education for 16-18 year olds |
| 33 | Number of schools offering all or part UK curriculum |
| 4 | Number of schools offering all or part US curriculum |
| 28 | Number of schools offering all or part international curriculum |
International School News Roundup
UK: Indian students still applying for UK visas in droves despite tougher rules
China: Chinese students bring bonanza to Western economies
UAE: Broadway Malyan wins British school job in Abu Dhabi
UAE: New school opens in Dubai Investments Park
India: Podar school set to enter Gujarat
Australia: Baccalaureate joins national curriculum
Singapore: School of the Arts' new S$145-million campus opens
These news stories are a small sample taken from the ISC Research Online System.
For more information go to www.iscresearch.com or email tl@isc-r.com.
What are the advantages to being a subscriber?
By subscribing to ISC Research Limited you will gain access to the richest schools market in the world. This market is growing at an extraordinary rate and almost certainly has a greater value than the current UK schools market. Many companies spend a huge amount marketing and selling to UK schools and very little internationally. Yet compared to UK schools, schools abroad are often isolated and have little access to information, representatives, presentations etc. Sales prospects are enormous and they are getting bigger day by day. Using ISC Research Ltd's online system subscribers can map, analyse, target and contact over 5,500 English-medium schools worldwide. The number of international, English-medium and bilingual schools is growing at around 7.8% per annum. At this rate the total number of international schools will exceed 8,000 by 2015.
As well as researching new schools, the underlying database is constantly researched and updated to reflect innumerable changes in basic school information. ISC Research Limited specializes in providing detailed, up-to-date information about existing international schools, emerging international schools and trends in the market.
With the system you can:
- Analyse and target schools by geography, curriculum, examinations, membership of associations, pupil age, etc. using Search
- Show results using a graphics interface
- Access the up-to-date international schools News Section
- Use the Market Overview and Statistics Section to follow trends
- Find and contact international school organisations
- Manage communications appropriately and effectively with integrated e-mail and mailing utilities
- Single or multiple user subscriptions are available to suppliers, service organisations and parents.
For free temporary access and system demonstration contact ISC Research Limited, alternatively you may see a demo of the system using Flash.
We really like this new service. Cambridge International Examinations
has been able to use the ISC Research service as a one-stop shop for
targeting and contacting schools. The service is extremely useful: the
data is much more comprehensive and up-to-date than anything else and we
are able to find new schools as they open.
Peter Monteath,Research & Strategy Manager,
University of Cambridge International Examinations
The Council of International Schools (http://www.cois.org) is
delighted, on behalf of its member schools, with this new arrangement
with ISC Research, that gives our members access to the substantive data
held by ISC on International Schools around the world. CIS is providing
ISC with the public domain data it holds on its member schools, while
both organisations will feed each other up-dated data, so ensuring that
entries are current. CIS will continue to collect compensation data as
part of its joint annual survey with ECIS, but this data will remain
confidential and will, as in the past, only be made available to member
schools who have responded to the survey.
Richard Tangye, Executive Director of CIS
ISC Research has enabled me rapidly to develop a marketing strategy
for international schools. Targeted marketing in this highly lucrative
sector would have been impossible otherwise. I recommend this to anyone
seriously interested in this market.
Ian Bourne, Managing Director, Citnexus
The new arrangements give both organisations and member schools
access to the vast amount of non-confidential data held by ISC Research
about the rapidly growing number of international schools around the
world. It would be impossible for us or member schools to do this work
ourselves. We look forward to working with ISC Research on appropriate
research projects.
Roger Fry, Chair of COBIS
I am so impressed that the new system
can do this (store files on the server so that they may be sent as
links) - it's great that the file does not appear as an attachment which
means it is a great way for us to reach international schools with our
catalogue.
Alice Hutt: Classroom Video
