Help and Advice
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Advice to parents of new boarders
No nonsense advice from parents (posted in the Middle East) who sent three children back home to board...two were "Enid Blyton" perfect fits (although one was a boy) but the third was a square peg and expected by the school to "stand up to the bullies"...
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Culture shock at school
Going to an international school in a new country can give children – and parents – quite a culture shock, something experienced by all new arrivals.
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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:
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Take the children or leave them at home?
An overseas posting for a couple of years can be an incredibly enriching experience for the whole family. This is especially true for children who attend international schools where they will have an opportunity to collect a Contacts list full of exotic friends and broaden their minds by gaining first-hand experience of many different cultures.
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You know you're a TCK if....
No one knows more about TCKs than long-time diplomatic operator of many initials (TCK, CLO), Leslie Teixeira - born a TCK, married to a TCK, and raising TCKs. This just in....
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