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Blog | Global Campus | School Activities

Start the year on the right page with our Global Library recommendations!

Whether it’s about teaching children to find the magic all around them or telling of courageous young heroes who overcame profound hardships, the Global Library features inspiring titles that every Nord Anglia Education student will love to read this year. Read on to learn more out the three recommended books in the 2018/19 reading list.

NAE's Education team a crucial component to schools' high academic achievements

Nord Anglia Education’s Education team is an intrinsic part of providing and ensuring an outstanding academic experience for every student

Astro boots inventor Professor Leia Stirling challenges students to create their own wearable technologies

Known for inventing boots for astronauts to walk on Mars, Professor Leia Stirling at MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics wants students to explore the world of wearable technology in the Epic Identity challenge and discover how gadgets are used to measure and enhance or help human performance.

Blog | MIT | Educational Insights | Featured

Innovative teaching and learning in schools is achieved through regularly testing ideas, learning from them and deciding how to move forward

MIT Teaching Systems Lab Professor Justin Reich says regular testing our ideas paves the way for both teachers and students to learn through experience and evaluate how to move forward

Can studying the performing arts create successful students?

If you want your child to excel academically, socially and personally, can studying the performing arts be a key to success? Laura Rea, Music Teacher and Southeast Asia Regional Lead for the Juilliard-Nord Anglia Performing Arts Programme at the British International School, Hanoi (BIS Hanoi) says studying the performing arts can help students gain key skills and qualities to prepare them for their future.

News | Featured | Group News

NAE amplifies giving back and leads the way on creating tomorrow's change makers

We are proud to announce that Nord Anglia Education will allocate $US100million over the next 10 years to establish a charitable foundation and a global campaign centre aimed at empowering students to create impactful, sustainable solutions for change.

Blog | Educational Insights

Nord Anglia graduates share their secrets to academic success

One in three Nord Anglia students are admitted to the world’s top 100 universities listed on the QS World University Rankings. So far, 94 per cent of Nord Anglia’s 2017/18 graduating class have now taken up places at leading universities in countries around the world, including prestigious schools such as Harvard, MIT, the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and many others.

Blog | UNICEF | Featured | School Activities

This year's Sustainable Development Goals and the 'Worlds Largest Lesson'

All Nord Anglia students are empowered to make a difference and to positively impact the world. Through our collaboration with UNICEF, students participate in meaningful activities to effect change in their schools and communities at large. To focus these efforts on specific goals, UNICEF annually challenges Nord Anglia students to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals, which are a collection 17 goals set by the United Nations regarding social and economic development issues.

News | homefeatured | Featured

Schools celebrate year of growth with ‘Be Ambitious Awards'

Each year, at Nord Anglia Education’s Senior Leadership Team Conference, senior leaders and principals from across our organisation gather to discuss best practice and to share new developments in their schools. The conference is also when we host our “Be Ambitious Awards” to celebrate the different ways our 56 schools have achieved excellence during the past academic year.

Blog | Educational Insights | Featured | Group News

The education system and teachers must quickly adapt to deliver the learning students deserve to thrive in an uncertain future

Education advisory board Chair Lord David Puttnam says education reform is an “urgent necessity” and educators and school leaders must act as a catalyst for change by empowering and inspiring students by their own example.

Personalised teaching transforms outcomes for academic success

Learn how an innovative approach to personalised teaching by a group of teachers at Collège Champittet helped ten students achieve far more than exam success.

How can we future proof education so students can handle what tomorrow will bring?

Nord Anglia’s Education’s (NAE) Director Andy Puttock says schools have shifted from being transmitters of knowledge to becoming environments for students to develop the skills and qualities needed to thrive in the future, and keep pace in a rapidly changing world

Blog | MIT | Educational Insights

This year MIT challenges YOU to be a STEAM Superhero!

The theme of this year’s MIT Challenges is STEAM Superheroes, a concept connecting Nord Anglia Education (NAE) students to current, cutting-edge research while reinforcing cross-disciplinary learning

Blog | homefeatured | Featured

How professional development helps our students make the grade

Inderjit Dehal, Director of Professional Development, shares how Nord Anglia Education’s excellent professional development programme for staff helps our students achieve great academic results year after year.

Blog | China | Educational Insights

What is a bilingual education?

Nord Anglia Education is known for its provision of the highest quality of international education for children all around the world. To provide the same standard of instruction to students of all ages in China and Vietnam, Nord Anglia has developed a bilingual teaching model in these two countries. Learn more about how Nord Anglia implements their bilingual educational offer and why demand for this type of education is growing worldwide.

The curricula that carried the day

The 2018/19 academic school year is now underway in Nord Anglia Education (NAE) schools around the world, but there is still plenty of cause to celebrate the incredible academic results achieved in the 2017/18 school year. We are proud of the marked improvement recorded across several of our offered curricula, with some definite standouts. Here are some of the many highlights from the past year’s great academic results.

50 per cent of NAE students score A*, A grades in the I/GCSEs

An astounding 50 per cent of our students attained grades A*, A (or equivalent) in the I/GCSEs, two and half times the 2018 UK average of 20.5 per cent

Gaining multiple skills and perspectives through the performing arts

Incorporating drama, the last part of our performing arts programme is more than just learning how to act. Acknowledging each subject’s qualities while engaging in all three curricula in a holistic way can help students build skills that are transferrable, which means they can be used across their subjects at school and later on in life, says Rachel Whitehunt, Director of Performing Arts at the British International School of Washington.

Blog | parentadvice | Parent Advice

2018 Parent Survey shows strengths across the board

Each year, Nord Anglia Education conducts a Parent Satisfaction Survey to help us improve our understanding of how we are performing. By benchmarking key areas, our survey tells us what our schools are doing well and where we can improve in the future. This helps Nord Anglia Education schools continue to provide the best possible educational experience for our 50,000 plus students. This year’s survey included responses and comments from almost 14,000 parents in 22 different languages. We are proud of these results, as they represent the collective hard work and dedication of everyone at our schools. To give you a sense of how we’re performing, read on for a few key highlights.

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