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Archive for August, 2008
School League Tables
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Holly Harris, under News, School League TablesOver the last few weeks, thousands of students have received IB, A-level, AS-level, IGCSE and GCSE level exam results. Families across the UK will have been looking at newspaper ‘school league tables’ in order to find out which are the…
Team ISC does the independent sector proud in Beijing
Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Rudi Eliott Lockhart, under NewsHopes for British Olympic glory in Beijing rest in many cases on the shoulders of a number of former pupils from ISC schools. Already David Florence, an ex-pupil of Stewart’s Melville College, has won silver in the men’s C-1 canoeing slalom,…
You’ll never be bored at boarding school
Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Rudi Eliott Lockhart, under Boarding Schools, NewsBoarding school is a popular option. Whether it’s due to the ‘Harry Potter’ effect, with children keen to go away to boarding school after reading about Hogwarts, or due to the efforts made to advertise the wide range of school fee assistance offered by many ISC schools in the form of bursaries and scholarships, there are now over 67,000 pupils at ISC member schools who are boarders: on a like-for-like basis this represents a 0.4% increase on 2007.