Help and Advice
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Home and school overseas - do third culture kids make first class citizens?
Along with globalisation has come greater mobility, with millions of people crossing borders annually to work or migrate. They adapt new languages and customs but bring with them cultural influences from where they were raised. When children live overseas during their formative years in a country other than their own, they are tagged with a new label – “Third Culture Kids” (TCKs).
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International schools: in name only?
With over 8,000 international schools scattered across the world, globetrotting parents can work virtually anywhere secure in the knowledge that their accompanying offspring won’t have to compromise their education.
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School ownership: what if a school is privately owned?
Schools come under about four kinds of ownership: