According to ISC Research, in the past 20 years the international school market has exploded from around 2500 international schools, aimed at children of expatriate families working for embassies or global companies, to more than 10,000 international schools dominated by mostly local students. The biggest growth has been in China and Southeast Asia, fuelled by… Read more »

International teaching is an excellent opportunity to live in another country, meet new people and immerse yourself in a new culture. But what do you do when things don’t turn out quite as expected? Political instability is a day-to-day reality in many countries which, from time to time leads to political and civil unrest. When… Read more »

There is a huge focus on continuing professional development in the UK – the Department for Education (DfE) outlines a five-part standard for teacher’s professional development to be used by everyone working and and with UK schools and, when judging the effectiveness of a school’s leadership team, Ofsted takes into account “whether continuing professional development… Read more »

Before starting to teach internationally, I taught for five years in an East London state school where the number of students eligible for free school meals was almost twice the national average. At my first international school, students’ personal drivers drove the family BMW through the drive-through to pick up a McDonald’s meal for their… Read more »