Newsletter May 2008

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In This Issue

GESS and ISC Research work together
ISC Research goes virtual
Online Distribution System (ODS)
Country Focus
Featured News Articles
Advantages to being a subscriber
Visit the ISC Research web site

Current Market Size
4802 Total number of English-medium international schools (not including future schools)
1829485 Total number of students

Changes since January 1st
293 New school records
3273 Updated (many schools are updated several times per year
1857 Checked (no changes)
605 Heads updated (names and/or email addresses)
1615 Heads checked
689 Emails changed

GESS and ISC Research work together
by Sue Rothwell Group Event Director, Fairs and Exhibitions.
 
After the success of the inaugral GESS in January this year, we are now fully in the planning stage for the 2009 event.  To raise the event’s profile, and to better communicate with the region’s independent schools, GESS is delighted to be working with ISC Research in the run up to the next edition in March 2009. 

We fully believe that the knowledge and expertise that ISC Research can bring to the event planning and promotion will extend our reach  to the key decision makers in this particular market, enabling us to communicate the conference and workshop topics, key note speakers, and our exhibitors as they come on board. 

GESS is the only event in the Gulf region that addresses the entire spectrum of educational needs. Held in Dubai, and supported by BESA and Worlddidac, GESS is a platform of solutions for both private and public educational establishments within the GCC states. 

GESS is a dynamic combination of conference and exhibition, combining the Global Education Forum, with a comprehensive exhibition featuring cutting edge supplies and solutions from around the world. It is designed to be inspirational, educational and enlightening,  providing teaching professionals with the solutions and skills needed to advance regional education. 

The forum brings a global perspective to a broad range of key issues and provides informative and innovative solutions that are taylored to meet local issues.  With the generous support of the Minister of Education, Dr Hanif Hassan, the plenary sessions, workshops and masterclasses provide the most comprehensive reach to education professionals within the entire Gulf  Region. 

GESS 2008 saw 4,000 visitors through the door.  Head teachers, Heads of Department, IT specialists, and teachers from the public and private sectors, of all educational establishments, K – 12, and higher education, attended to catch up on the latest technologies, and exchange ideas.

The next GESS event will be held in Dubai March 10 – 12 2009 

For further information please visit www.gulfeducation.info or contact the GESS team on enquiries@gulfeducation.info

 

ISC Research goes virtual
ISC Research now has a virtual as well as a physical presence.  Anyone who is a member of the Second Life virtual world community can now go to the International School Island and visit the ISC Research pavilion.  The pavilion contains two continuous presentations, several handouts and a link to the website.  Subscribers can therefore login even from within a virtual community.  The pavilion will soon contain a podcast between MD Nicholas Brummitt and Shambles presenter Chris Smith.  This was originally recorded in January 2007.  It will be available from within the pavilion at all times.

Visitors to the island and to the Pavilion can spend time relaxing and learning about international schools and ISC Research.

More information on the International School Island
Listen to the original Shambles podcast  
 

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Country Focus: Thailand
172 Total number of schools
53,886 Total number of students
4,622 Total number of staff
152 Number of schools offering education for 3-5 year olds
148 Number of schools offering education for 5-11 year olds
97 Number of schools offering education for 11-13 year olds
82 Number of schools offering education for 13-16 year olds
65 Number of schools offering education for 16-18 year olds
67 Number of schools offering all or part UK curriculum
38 Number of schools offering all or part US curriculum
91 Number of schools offering all or part international curriculum

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Online Distribution System (ODS)
ISC Research Limited are pleased to announce development of a new product offering.  The Online Distribution System is a fully customisable product that allows subscribers to choose which regions, sub-regions or countries they wish to have access to.  All other functions of the online system remain the same so subscribers can produce personalised emails, letters and labels and use the demographic information to strategically manage their marketing campaigns.

ODS will be available in two forms: Basic and Advanced - the key difference being that Advanced level subscribers can download subsets of data to their machines for further analysis.  This is achieved by linking ISC Research information to their own.

Subscribers define the scope of their subscription when signing up and then get access to the standard online services, the only difference being that they can only search and contact the schools in the countries, sub-regions or regions that they have specified.

Both basic and advanced options will be competitively priced to ensure that ISC Research continues to offer excellent value for money.

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Latest international school news

Tenby Educare Group to open third campus in Malaysia
Doha: two more international schools launched
Pearson announce Chinese deal
Kamal: new school announced
China: increasing impetus to attract foreign students
Two international schools to open in Qatar
Seoul: three new international schools

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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

Single or multiple user subscriptions are available to suppliers, service organisations and parents.

For free temporary access and system demonstration please contact ISC Research.

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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.
Alice Hutt: Classroom Video
 

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