ISC Research Newsletter: July 2009
Newsletter: July 2009
In This Issue:
- Country Focus on India
- International School News Roundup
- What are the advantages to being a subscriber
- 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) | 5,312 |
| Total number of students | 2,299,315 |
| Changes since January 1st | |
| New school records | 299 |
| Updated (many schools are updated several times a year) | 4,353 |
| Checked | 3,779 |
| Heads updated (names and/or email addresses) | 941 |
| Heads checked | 3,392 |
| Emails changed | 1,144 |
Country Focus: India
| International Schools in India | |
|---|---|
| 170 | Total number of schools |
| 66,256 | Total number of students |
| 6,462 | Total number of staff |
| 113 | Number of schools offering education for 3-5 year olds |
| 137 | Number of schools offering education for 5-11 year olds |
| 140 | Number of schools offering education for 11-13 year olds |
| 138 | Number of schools offering education for 13-16 year olds |
| 110 | Number of schools offering education for 16-18 year olds |
| 64 | Number of schools offering all or part UK curriculum |
| 13 | Number of schools offering all or part US curriculum |
| 151 | Number of schools offering all or part international curriculum |
International School Roundup
India - International school curriculum gets more takersNZ - Number of international Students grow
India - UK-based educational body expanding operations in India
Spain - Bilingual education extends across Malaga province
Thailand - Schools aim for foreign students
Korea - 12 Jeju International schools to accept 10,000 students
India - Massive government investment
These news stories are a small sample taken from the ISC Research Online System.
For more information call ISC Research on 01367 246007 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 Limited's online system subscribers can map, analyse, target and contact over 4,600 English-medium schools worldwide. Taking the current annual growth rate of 11% there will be nearly 6,000 schools by 2010, well over 10,000 schools by 2015 & over 15,000 by 2020.
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.
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
