London Borough School Search (Independent schools)

Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Rosie Keeling, under Boarding Schools, ISCias, News, Private Schools

The ISC website contains several school searches for parents interested in independent schools, including a Postcode Search, the Find an ISC School Search, which allows parents to search by factors such as location, gender, age range and day/…

An Independent Education: Promoting Flexibility and Choice

Posted on April 21st, 2009 by Liam Butler, under News

Every year it seems that some new qualification is launched and trialled to challenge the prevalence of A-levels in our schools. Indeed next year will see the first students sitting exams for the Pre-U, a brand new Cambridge International Examinations…

A Bright Spark: ‘Gifted and Talented’ in the Independent Sector

Posted on April 8th, 2009 by Liam Butler, under Boarding Schools, ISCias, News, Private Schools, Special Educational Needs (SEN)

‘Gifted and Talented’ (G&T) children are defined as those who have one or more abilities developed significantly ahead of their year group or have the potential to develop these abilities. Helping Students achieve their full potential is certainly nothing new…

Looking for schools offering bursaries or other types of school fee assistance?

Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Rosie Keeling, under News, Private Schools, School Fees - Private Schools

The ISC Personalised Advanced School is a sophisticated school search that allows those looking for an independent school to find schools best fitting their requirements. One aspect of the search is that it can be used to find schools offering…

In-fee-lation?

Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Hayley Dunlop, under News, School Fees - Private Schools

We discovered last month that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has risen to 3.3% – the highest it has been since records began more than 11 years ago. Using this as a guideline, it would be easy to presume…

Eco schools – ISC schools get involved in debate

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Hayley Dunlop, under Eco-Schools, News

Last month, the Evening Standard printed an artist’s impression for the most expensive school ever to be built in Britain’ (The £72m school , Evening Standard). The Holland Park School in Kensington, which is apparently referred to as ‘the…

Transforming the curriculum through the Extended Project

Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Patrick Derham - Rugby School, under News, School Curriculum - Private Schools

The law of unintended consequences is responsible for much of the world’s evil. One of those misfortunes, it could be argued, is the existence of an overly prescriptive, over-loaded curriculum. If you were sitting down to design the curriculum, where…