Accreditation Service for International Schools, Colleges, and Universities (ASIC)

A UK based and government-approved body, our global footprint now spans over 65 countries. With 400+ accredited and member institutions representing a diverse range of education providers, we are now one of the world’s largest international accrediting agencies.

We believe quality assurance should lead to demonstrable impact. ASIC has a proven track record with glowing recommendations from our institutions about the tangible results our work produces.

Our inspectors are keen to reward commendable and innovative approaches. We, in turn, learn from our institutions; allowing us to continually shape our standards with the future of international education in mind.

Beyond our work in the education sector, we are passionate about seeing young people reach their potential. Through our charitable foundation, we fund and support projects that give back to our local community as well as special projects that touch our hearts internationally.

Please head over to the ASIC Global website to learn more.

The College Internship Program (CIP) has announced dates and locations for their 2021 summer programs for teens and young adults with autism and other learning differences.

Next summer, CIP will offer Summer@CIP, their traditional two-week in-person program at five highly-rated college locations in addition to SummerSessions@CIP, a virtual program that was successfully launched last year. The 2021 schedule has been designed to provide multiple options for families due to any possible restrictions surrounding COVID-19. All programs will be offered between June 27th through August 6th, 2021. Program dates and locations can be found on CIP's website.

CIP is one of the world’s most comprehensive transition programs for teens and young adults with autism and other learning differences, offering support with college, independent living, and employment.

"The transition from adolescence to young adulthood for people with learning differences is a critical time in one's life," commented CIP President Dan McManmon. ”Our tight-knit groups of participants will learn strategies for making a well-prepared transition to life after high school including independent living skills, practice socialization and recreation, and college readiness, all in a very safe and structured environment.”

The traditional two-week summer program will be offered on-site at five college campuses where students will live in college dorms and experience a taste of college life. Students will learn new skills that are embedded in CIP’s cutting edge programming that has been crafted to meet the unique needs and interests of students who learn differently. Participants will also spend time with peers exploring activities in the surrounding community with an emphasis on making new friends and having fun.

The virtual program will be offered Monday-Friday July 19-30. Participants will benefit from CIP’s expert staffing, small group cohorts, and ample opportunities for fun and socializing such as virtual escape rooms and scavenger hunts. Participants enroll in SummerSessions@CIP from across the US and internationally. Parent workshops will also be offered.

Kristen, a parent of a recent participant stated “Cameron had a wonderful time, and the summer program really exceeded our expectations, honestly. It’s usually hard to engage students online for so many hours per day, but Cameron came off every evening feeling energized and happy. Thank you.”

CIP has specialized in the educational needs of teens and young adults with autism and learning differences for over 35 years, offering year-round residential and summer transition program options with unparalleled supports since 1984. CIP’s summer programs are designed to offer a pathway for families to help them determine the best next steps for their young adults with learning differences.

Email us at info@cipsummer.com for updated information on tuition, early discounts, and video contest scholarship opportunities, or call 877-566-9247.

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Eduro Learning is proud to collaborate with ECIS to announce our newest initiative: Women Who Lead. We have interviewed Heads of School, Curriculum Directors, Principals, and Influential female leaders to provide a window into their personal leadership journeys, so you can hear from them, exactly what it’s like to pursue this path. ECIS is proud to offer our membership schools 10% off of the Women Who Lead programme. Please contact membership@ecis.org to find out more about your discount code or about becoming an ECIS School to receive a discount.

Experts in the art of timetabling, Edval Education has been focused on solutions-based software and services for school timetabling for over 20 years. A TES global company, we aim to help schools get better outcomes for teachers and students through smarter timetabling.

A trusted provider of unparalleled software, timetable solutions and support, we listen to our customers, creating innovative software based on their needs and requirements.

We can help with:

Timetabling

• Easily create & maintain school data
• Auto-staffing and auto-rooming
• Automatically spread manage your timetable
• Construct the timetable, by either an automated or a manual process
• Automatically fix teacher and/or room clashes
• Comprehensive class list management
• Export or synchronise with/to third party systems
• and more!

Daily Organisation

• Manage day-to-day variations to your cyclical timetable
• Store teacher, room, class and student information
• Record excursions, events and other non-cyclical timetable activities
• Create and staff exam timetables
• Cover classes and duties with casuals, extras, in-lieus or teacher swaps either automatically or manually
• Manage room changes and bookings
• Produce Daily Bulletins that can be printed or emailed to staff
• Produce Day Sheets that can be printed or emailed to staff to show a teacher's timetable for the day
• Produce analysis reports of staff absences, teacher statistics, cost savings
• and more!

Student Choices

• Easily collect student preferences online
• Ensures students select the correct number and type of subjects to meet school specified curriculum requirements.
• Syncs directly into the Edval timetable file
• Set rules, constraints and prerequisites for courses within Edval
• Secure online interface for students
• and more!

Edval also offer software and services to help schools with Parent Teacher Interviews, Curriculum and school development, timetable construction, school resource optimisation and more.

To learn more and our software and services, click here.

Enquire now to get a custom quote for your school

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WIN two staff places on the  Assessment Lead Programme (worth £1,200)

Understanding what your students know and what they need next is more important than ever before.

In line with the best available evidence in teacher CPD, the Assessment Lead Programme enables school leaders to make more reliable judgements about what students know, can do, and need next.

Broken down into four modules and delivered entirely online, the programme includes practical tools and resources, guidance for implementation, a collaborative model of development and expert support, sustained over time.

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Faria Education Group was founded over 15 years ago to transition schools from paper onto a curriculum-focused learning platform, saving schools time while providing a better experience for the whole school community. Today, Faria powers over 10,000 schools & districts and 3 million students with a suite of 6 services: ManageBac is Faria’s flagship product and the leading curriculum planning, assessment, and reporting platform for IB World Schools serving the full IB continuum.

AtlasNext is a curriculum-first learning platform for independent and international schools worldwide. Pamoja provides flexible online learning solutions for students and schools. OpenApply is an online admissions management platform supporting the applicant journey from enquiry to enrolment. SchoolsBuddy is an innovative web and mobile solution for extra-curricular management and online payments. Curriculum Trak provides an integrated platform offering curriculum management for faith-based schools. Together with our integration partners, world-class support, and PD offerings, we offer schools a full range of services to meet all of their needs.

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After speaking to schools and partners around the world, we appreciate that school budgets remain challenged. Whilst recent vaccine news has been promising, it’s likely that the International schools market will continue to experience difficulties over the coming months. To help school budgets go further, we are maintaining our 2020 prices until December 2021. LEARN MORE

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Welcome to Findel International Education Resources, one of the leading global suppliers of educational resources to international schools across the world. Our brands include Hope Education, Philip Harris, Davies Sports, and LDA, ensuring you can find everything you need to run your school, nursery, or educational establishment through one complete supplier.

Our range of resources gives you choice, value, and quality with over 30,000 product available. We also develop thousands of our own products that simply can’t be found elsewhere, from Maths, English, and Computing to Science, Sport, and Special Educational Needs. What’s more, every product we create is inspired, tested, and loved by teachers.

Our International team are based in-country, locally to you, and have years of experience in exporting to more than 130 countries worldwide. What’s more, our experienced UK-based customer service advisors are specialists in exporting! They will support your every need, answering your inquiries, and managing all orders from end to end.

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International Education Services is quickly becoming recognized as one of the industry’s fastest-growing recruitment firms in the education field. We endeavor to facilitate professional partnerships between international schools and educators by building meaningful, long-lasting relationships through transparent communication and personalized attention.

Our vision is to unite schools and education professionals with the common goal of building school communities that value safety, inclusion, and integrity and guiding students to become well-rounded lifelong learners and global citizens. This is confidently achieved through our ability to understand what schools require and what the teachers are looking for in their placements. As a result, we acquire the best candidates and achieve the best results. LEARN MORE

Launching in 2005, iSAMS became the first supplier of fully web-based Management Information Systems for schools around the world. Since then, we have continually developed our software to enrich the future of education and empower the continued success of schools and their students. We’re proud that we now support over 950 schools in more than 80 countries. As their trusted MIS partner, we provide these schools with an effective system that can be accessed anywhere and at any time whilst enhancing every aspect of school life – from supporting rapid growth in student enrolment and streamlining accounting and fee billing processes, to managing essential student data and offering compatibility with multiple curriculums. Find out more by visiting www.isams.com.

Lantana is an award-winning children’s book publisher and social enterprise with a mission to publish inclusive books celebrating diversity, social and emotional learning and environmental sustainability.

We work with authors from under-represented groups, and from across the globe, and print our books with non-petroleum-based inks on Forest Stewardship Council certified paper to minimise our carbon footprint.

For ECIS members, we’re delighted to offer a 10% discount on book purchases from our site, using coupon code ECIS10 at checkout.

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Lexis Education provides a range of expert services internationally in the field of language, literacy, and learning, with a particular focus on the area of English as a second language. These services include professional development, curriculum materials development, classroom-based research initiatives, and general consultancy in language and literacy. LEARN MORE

Helping #Schools During COVID-19: Free Professional Development Course

As part of our commitment to educators around the world who are having to toggle back and forth between physical and virtual instruction, we are offering one 1-week professional development course on the 15th of every month, at no charge.

Topics will change from month to month, in order to provide sufficient breadth during the school year, for as long as schools anywhere in the world need to respond to health security concerns for physical classrooms. We recognize that teachers need access to “just-in-time” professional development in order to ensure their instructional effectiveness, and we want you to know that we are here to support you throughout this unprecedented time.

DIFFERENTIATION AND STUDENT-CENTERED ONLINE LEARNING

Building off of the theme of the previous month (see below), this PD allows candidates to make use of data to create an inclusive classroom led by students and focused on their needs.

The start of a new year is an optimal time to establish or re-establish goals for the social and emotional (SEL) wellbeing of students and teachers. In this course, participants will learn tools and strategies to mindfully integrate SEL within curriculum and instruction as a means to foster a classroom culture of wellbeing, engagement, and achievement. Tapping into professional learning communities, participants will build community among colleagues to support student growth and development.

DURATION: 1 WEEK. Your cohort kicks off with a one-hour synchronous class meeting, with structured activities and assignments to be submitted during the week.

CLASS MEETINGS: You will start your cohort with a class meeting on: February 15th

CE CREDIT: 1 CEU (15 clock hours)

COST: NO CHARGE!

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Movieland Academy is the world’s first and only teaching tool to offer a streaming platform of cinematic content that gives teachers an educationally-backed way to teach through entertainment. Providing ready-to-use, educational-standard lesson plans for Higher Education and K-12, Movieland Academy is the approved way to revive your classroom. Offering over 1000 licensed films from major Hollywood studios, from classics to new releases, combined with more than 400 classroom lesson kits, developed by pedagogical experts at Journeys in Film. All movies and lesson kits are curriculum-aligned and chosen specifically to help boost today’s school lessons into the 21st century. Movieland Academy is also the perfect solution to enhance virtual lessons. Using dynamic, dramatized, inspiring, and popular content to help keep students engaged and motivated. Contact us at: contact@9-digital.media

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MyConcern is pleased to offer ECIS members a discount of 5% off the annual license fee for our award-winning Safeguarding Software ‘MyConcern’. Follow the link to find out more and speak to our International Account Manager quoting ‘ECIS member’. As a safeguarding company, protecting children and young people from harm is at the heart of everything we do. We know that ECIS and its members place child protection and welfare front and centre, so we are thrilled to be able to provide access to our platform at this reduced rate especially for ECIS schools.

MyConcern is a secure and trusted safeguarding software used by schools and colleges around the world, including all MOD schools. The Queen’s Award-winning platform has been created and developed by child protection experts with backgrounds in education, social care and policing. The intuitive system facilitates the recording and management of the full range of pastoral, wellbeing and child protection concerns and enables safeguarding leaders to identify patterns and implement proactive interventions. Visit our website or talk to us to find out more about the system and how it can help your school.

NEW for 2020/2021: Sentry for Safer Recruitment, our latest safeguarding solution, acts as your Single Central Record (SCR) because effective safeguarding starts with Safer Recruitment.

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NHL Stenden. Groundbreaking.

By expanding your boundaries there is no telling what you might accomplish. That is why we challenge our students, staff and partners every day to discover and develop their talents, as part of a journey that transcends the limits of their own professional field and immediate environment. 

Our multi-campus university of applied sciences is firmly rooted in the northern part of the Netherlands while at the same time maintaining a strong international focus. At all our Dutch and international branches, we are always looking for new ways to successfully integrate education, research, and the latest developments in the professional world. Our students embark on teaching experience placements each year and are placed at a range of international schools on 6 continents. We are proud of our network of international partner schools and excited to explore further possibilities to broaden our students' horizons continuously. 

Our students, lecturers and researchers work together in small teams on real-life assignments and share their innovative ideas in practice. Our courses incorporate the latest developments in international education and our study programmes actively address the issues international education is faced with in its global context. 

NHL Stenden offers 2 unique Bachelor degree programmes in the field of International Teacher Education:

·        International Teacher Education for Primary School (ITEps)

·        International Teacher Education for Secondary Schools (ITEss)

About 600 students from across the world are currently enrolled in these programmes, ready to make their mark in the world of international schools.

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More information? Please contact Mr Peter Elting at peter.elting@nhlstenden.com

Oxford International Study Centre is situated in the very heart of the University City in the conservation area, between the Town Hall and Christ Church, Oxford's most famous College. The Study Centre occupies a beautiful and prestigious building which is over four hundred years old, and retains its beamed ceilings and many other original features. Students are taught in the Study Centre and in an adjacent building, and in summer Oxford International Study Centre also teaches many older students in a College of the University.

Oxford International Study Centre provides high quality year round and short programmes which offer:

• Flexibility: many of the programmes are tailor made to best meet the requirements of the individual student or client company;
• Excellent contacts with the University, enabling students and clients to be taught in the Colleges of the University in the vacations. Fully residential courses in the University are offered in summer and , subject to status, arrangements can be made for visiting academics to become members of the University libraries;
• High calibre tutors and visiting speakers from academe or business;
• A range of over twenty subject specialisms, enabling, for example, a student to combine academic English with a University preparation programme;
• Strong links with a large number of British and European Schools , enabling younger students to prepare for entry to some of the best Boarding Schools;
• Good links with Oxford, Cambridge and other leading universities, and provision of individual educational counselling for students who wish to apply to a British University;
• A high level of pastoral care for students, including personal tutors and regular reports.
• Well-established links with Companies in the Oxford and London areas, enabling company clients to combine their Oxford programme with meeting new business contacts.

Gap Year Programmes

I would like to thank our teachers for their work, because I really enjoyed their lessons! They gave their heart and soul to their work. Teachers like this, caring ones, are very rare. We were very lucky to have them.
- Lev, Gap Year student, Ukraine

We arrange study abroad programmes for individuals and for school or college groups. These are taken in the form of a semester or year in Oxford and are a wonderful opportunity for students to discover the joys of Oxford, whilst continuing their education and broadening their horizons.

Some students take these programmes to enhance their existing studies, and possibly gain accreditation from their own high school or college. Others see the Oxford programme as an exciting way to widen their cultural and educational experience as part of a gap year. Some students love the city so much that they take the programme in order to enter a British university and stay in Oxford!

These programmes are very much tailor-made - they are unlike any other academic programme we offer. Some students choose to fill their schedule with academic study, aiming to work towards a qualification of some kind, whilst others choose to explore lots of different subjects which they have never studied - for example, learning a new language, or looking at an area of History which is new to them. Some students prefer to focus on the cultural, taking more vocational options in Art, Design, Architecture or even things like needlework or jewellery-making! The most important thing about these courses is their flexibility. We have welcomed students who have arrived planning to study Architecture at university, and have left to pursue undergraduate study in International Relations - we allow our study abroad students to shape their own programme in order for them to get a truly personalised, diverse experience.

We have been able to organise work experience placements for study abroad students in establishments as diverse as vintage clothing shops and patisseries. Students taking a gap-year programme should expect a culturally enriching and educational experience which they will remember forever.

If you are considering a study abroad year or semester, please write to us first with full information about your present studies and future plans, and an idea of what you hope to achieve during your time in Oxford. One of our staff members will be happy to offer you advice and to help you build the programme you are looking for. Where relevant, we will then contact your current school or college counsellors in order to best understand your current academic position and to arrange accreditation where necessary.
All students taking a gap year or study abroad semester receive full certification from OISC, with letters of recommendation and references to their school or college to ensure they receive credit where possible.

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Pearson is the world’s learning company and the UK’s largest awarding organisation. Our mission is to help people make progress in their lives through learning. We provide world-class educational content and digital services to international schools, to enable more effective teaching and personalised learning and to help learners increase their skills and employability prospects.

We partner with schools, universities and employers globally to offer qualifications to over 3.4 million students a year: our International GCSE and International A level qualifications are most closely aligned to the British education system and BTECs, our popular, career-focused qualifications developed in partnership with employers can be studied alongside academic qualifications in a broad and balanced curriculum.

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Real Training is an established online training provider offering level 7 courses and qualifications in leadership, inclusion, SEN, educational testing and access arrangements. Through these courses, ECIS membership schools and individuals have a unique opportunity to develop their understanding, skills and confidence in a chosen area to make a positive impact in their setting.

Some of our courses include:

• International Award for SEN Coordination (iSENCO)

• Certificate of Competence in Educational Testing (CCET)

• Certificate in Psychometric Testing, Assessment and Access Arrangements (CPT3A)

• National Professional Qualifications (NPQML, NPQSL and NPQH)

Click on the course links above to find out more! If you have any queries, please contact us on +44 12735 358080 or email us at info@realgroup.co.uk

Don’t just take our word for it, here are some of the positive things our delegates have had to say about us and our courses:

“For the first time I actually understand what I am aiming for in my job. All the practical tasks were applied in reality and really helped. The depth of understanding and a sense of what my job is supposed to be empowered me and transformed the way I carry out my job. It is the first training I have done which actually trains you for the job you do. Definitely do it. It's the best course I have ever taken and I have completed a degree, Masters, a Grad Dip, an AMBDA, a PGCE, and now this!!”  - Sarah Brown completed iSENCO 2020, based in France.

“The course staff are experienced, knowledgeable and helpful. The materials are relevant and reusable long after the course is over. I feel I have a wealth of documents etc that I will refer back to for the rest of my career. I took the course to deepen my own knowledge and to have a more structured approach to headship and you have met those needs head on and in an enjoyable but informative manner.”  - Liam Bellamy completed NPQH 2020, based in Bahrain.

“All of the courses I have enrolled on have exceeded my expectations. The detail and structure that goes into the planning of the courses allows for delegates to feel guided throughout the course, even when there is no face to face element. The course tutors are extremely knowledgeable, approachable and helpful; they respond quickly to any messages and are always willing to help.” - Catrin Brauner completed CPT3A and NASENCO 2019, based in Dubai.

The Riverside Learning Center is a pedagogical research and training organization, based in Ahmedabad, India, with a global reach in over 12 countries. RLC offers customized training programs that provide ecosystem-wide solutions to transform school cultures with processes and pedagogical practices designed for the 21st-century learner. We believe that Design Thinking, with empathy at its core, is the key to create a unique and user-centered approach to learning and building school systems. RLC uses this approach in its training programs to transform schools from a standardized “one size fits all approach” to schools that value agency, co-creation, and character over compliance, instruction, and only content.

The Six Pillar Platform

The Six Pillar Platform is a robust framework of processes and practices under the six pillars of Curriculum, Parent Partnership, Community, Personal & Professional Development, Admin and Leadership. Purposeful practice of these processes under the Six Pillars cultivates what we refer to as a HumanE Ecosystem.

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Spokes Education is a friendly, UK-based e-Learning company that specialises in providing online and blended learning services. As a social business, Spokes Education’s team of experts ensure that they go above and beyond to support not-for-profit organisations, and every course they make promotes accessibility for learners at all levels. Utilising a diverse skillset in learning design, e-learning development, creative design, and animation, Spokes Education work hard to create eye-catching, immersive, and pedologically sound courses at all price points.

They provide users with a unique and enjoyable learning experience, whether that is a mobile-friendly microlearning module or a fully accredited blended post-graduate programme. Spokes Education also offer a range of support services, including individual and group training sessions, consultancy, the creation of guidance documents and explainer videos, LMS administration, and end-user support. They will also soon be launching UnfoldED Online, a learning platform containing a series of specialist off-the-shelf courses aimed at the Education sector. LEARN MORE

With their online masterclasses, Swiss Leadership Camp, workshops at schools and student leadership conferences, SILC Academy deliver customised experiential programmes for students ages 9 to 17 for top international schools around the world. All SILC Academy programmes combine fun team-building games, challenges, and outdoor activities with a selection among their wide range of student leadership and personal development modules, aligned with the school, and fully conform to Covid protection guidelines. The practical and experience-based curriculum was developed based on our 12-year partnerships with many ECIS member schools such as Collège du Léman in Geneva, Collège Champittet in Lausanne, British School of Bratislava, International School of Luxembourg, American School of Paris, Berlin Brandenburg IS, and Rome International School. To request a free proposal, or to find out more, please email Head of Student Development: Tunji David Lees

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From humble beginnings in a garage in England to supplying over 84 countries across the globe, we have been talking to educators and inventing new reasons for children to love learning for over 30 years. With your help, we have created thousands of reasons to love learning and each year around 400 new resources are invented. From printed books to programmable floor robots, we keep on inventing because you tell us to, and because everyone loves a “wow”. LEARN MORE