Most popular Good Schools Guide articles

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• Moving Overseas: Before You Go, Read This!

  Books and movies to check out before you relocate overseas, and after you arrive. Expert advice or just plain funny; for expats, ambassadors, parents and travelers. Chosen by GSGI writers.

• Coming home to roost: the pleasures and perils of returning to schools in the UK

  There comes a time in the life of most expatriate families when they have to decide about their children’s education – do we stay or do we go? Now or later? Should our children take all their public exams at an international school abroad, or would they be better served at a school in the UK? 

• Relocating from Switzerland back to the UK

  Suddenly relocating back to the UK? Little children milling around your ankles and big children to find school places for? How do you manage if you are relocating from Switzerland to England? What is the transition like from international or Swiss schools back into the English system?

• Comparative ages, grades and exams - US vs UK

  Comparing US and UK ages, stages, grades and exams from UK nursery through A levels, from American Kindergarten through 12th grade, and when students take AP, IB or GCSEs.

• AP (advanced placement) coursework and exams (American system)

  Advanced Placement (AP) courses are curricula and exams created by the College Board (who also run the SAT I and II) and are much more rigorous than the general course offerings (including those characterized as "honours") at American high schools....and also very much needed to beef up normal US high school diplomas if one is applying to a US uni (although IB courses will also do the job).

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