Newsletter September 2008
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ADDENDUM: There was an error in the news item entitled "UK - GCSE scrapped by independent schools". This should read "UK - GCSE scrapped by independent schools". We apologise for any confusion.
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Current Market Size |
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| 5003 | Total number of English-medium international schools (not including future schools) |
| 1861586 | Total number of students |
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Changes since January 1st |
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| 524 | New school records |
| 4643 | Updated (many schools are updated several times per year |
| 4072 | Checked (no changes) |
| 1154 | Heads updated (names and/or email addresses) |
| 3477 | Heads checked |
| 1086 | Emails changed |
International Primary Curriculum
Celebrates 500 schools in 50 Countries
The International Primary Curriculum
has recently announced its 50th country, Denmark, has joined the fast
growing learning community learning. That means that, since its launch
in 2001, over 500 primary schools all around the world have now adopted
the internationally-minded, cross-curricular learning approach of the
IPC. And it's a figure predicted to rapidly increase this year with 800
schools anticipated by the end of the 2008-2009 school year and talk of
a Middle Years Program imminent.
"The IPC began in international schools," says Director, Theresa Forbes.
"And although we are increasingly extending our work to national
systems, a huge part of our work remains with the international schools
throughout the world. We have recently welcomed international schools
from Denmark, Spain, Brazil, Pakistan, Mauritius and Slovenia to the IPC
community. These schools recognize the benefits of the IPC's
skills-based, thematic, internationally-minded approach and its rigorous
teaching framework."
Building the IPC global community has been, in large part, down to word
of mouth; one teacher or head teacher talking to another. But regional
conferences, association events and briefings play a significant role in
spreading the word too. "One of our first ports of call for contacting
the international schools is through ISC-Research," says Theresa.
"ISC-Research is a unique organisation having compiled detailed
information on almost 5,000 English-medium international schools around
the world. Thanks to this data we're able to reach many schools in the
regions including new and developing schools, and keep track of growth
areas and the very latest industry news within a highly active market.
This data also helps us to plan the location of our regional training
conferences worldwide."
| 155 | Total number of schools |
| 43898 | Total number of students |
| 4365 | Total number of staff |
| 140 | Number of schools offering education for 3-5 year olds |
| 134 | Number of schools offering education for 5-11 year olds |
| 89 | Number of schools offering education for 11-13 year olds |
| 76 | Number of schools offering education for 13-16 year olds |
| 60 | Number of schools offering education for 16-18 year olds |
| 63 | Number of schools offering all or part UK curriculum |
| 36 | Number of schools offering all or part US curriculum |
| 87 | Number of schools offering all or part international curriculum |
Latest international school news
UAE - plans for 20 new schools
QATAR - International School of London opensUK - GCSE scrapped by independent schools
RUSSIA - update on international schools
KOREA - SFS negative regarding Seoul's plan for international schools
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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
The ISC online service has been brilliant in helping us market our products effectively in each region around the world. It is extremely economical compared to gathering this information for ourselves.
Richard Gaskell, Director International Sales, Scholastic International
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.
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