by Greg Parry | Sep 20, 2026 | Teaching and Learning
Most schools say that learning comes first, and their timetables usually say something else. Assemblies are added at short notice, rehearsals take the last week of term, visitors are shown around during lessons, announcements come over the intercom in the middle of an...
by Greg Parry | Sep 19, 2026 | School Management
In one international school, minutes were compulsory for every leadership and department meeting. They were typed up, circulated and filed, and nobody opened them again. Staff regarded them as a bureaucratic requirement, something produced for inspectors and...
by Greg Parry | Sep 19, 2026 | School Management
Most of what an owner is shown about a school is old news by the time it arrives. September enrolment reflects choices families made over the previous autumn, winter and spring, and because revenue depends on enrolment and margin depends on revenue, those figures are...
by Greg Parry | Sep 9, 2026 | Leadership and Governance
I have carried a private theory about leadership for most of my career. When something goes wrong, I allow myself to be off balance for a while, mostly behind closed doors. I might be angry. I might judge someone harshly. I might rehearse a response in my head that I...
by Greg Parry | Sep 6, 2026 | School Investment
Every year the sector produces a fresh set of headline statistics. ISC Research’s Global International Schools Snapshot 2026 counts 15,075 international schools worldwide, teaching 7.7 million students, employing 730,000 staff and generating around USD 69.3...
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