Kathy Misson, director of teaching and learning at Bedales Prep School Dunhurst, explains how a fluid approach to teaching and valuing children’s thoughts on their own learning experiences can significantly contribute to longer term strategic planning in schools.

Have you ever wanted to be a detective? Have you ever felt that your opinions could make a difference? Valuing children’s thoughts on their learning experiences can have dramatic effect on day to day workings of a school as well as the longer term strategic planning.  At Dunhurst where, along with the other two Bedales Schools, the motto is ‘work of each for weal of all’ it seems absolutely natural to involve children in all parts of their education including teaching and learning.

Rebecca Marriage examines the issues for families moving children outside the normal school admissions round, and offers timely advice for professionals helping to make the process run smoothly for globally mobile families.

In the face of an increasingly globalised world and working environment, it is important to equip young people with the cosmopolitan outlook needed to compete and succeed in an international jobs market dominated by multinational firms. Here, Karin Purcell, development director at Marymount International School London, examines the vital role that international schools can play in the development of children.

No matter how valuable the concept of attending university abroad, it is far earlier in children’s lives that students must be equipped with the tools they need to flourish in a changing world. With students from over 40 countries and partner schools in Italy, the US, France, Mexico, Columbia and Portugal, Marymount International School London is able to do just that.

Here, Peter Kotrc, director of Berlin Brandenburg International School (BBIS), examines the IB Career-Related Certificate (IBCC) which combines the strengths of international students with a more practical emphasis.

Educators know that it is quite normal for parents to start worrying about the selection of a good university for their children approximately six to eight weeks after birth. As expats are very often high achievers themselves, they have high hopes and high expectations for their offspring, and this is as it should be.