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UK Education and Training Capability An overview 2 UK Education & Training Capability An introduction to the Education sector team, Department for International Trade The UK education system is among the best in the world, recognised internationally for its excellence. With world-class institutions and The Education sector team is The UK’s approach is to adapt its organisations across the strategically placed within education offer to meet each education sector, the UK is also a government to bring together UK partner’s needs and cater for all global leader in helping other organisations to deliver effective, requirements from vocational and countries to develop excellence in comprehensive solutions in technical training, continuing their own education systems. areas including: professional development and leadership training to higher With this in mind, the Education • Education and training provision education, English language sector team in the Department for • Educational technology and training and schools. International Trade was resources established to work with overseas This prospectus provides an • Qualifications, assessment and governments, states and introduction to the areas of quality assurance businesses that want to engage education and training expertise UK partners in large scale • Teaching and leadership that the UK can offer with education projects. The Education • Supporting educational delivery examples of overseas projects sector team ensures that potential undertaken by UK organisations. • Financing education projects overseas partners can easily We look forward to working access UK expertise for their with you. education priorities. UK Education & Training Capability 1 Contents Education and training provision 2 Schools 2 Higher Education 4 Vocational education and training 7 Oil and gas education and training 10 Professional education and continuing professional development 12 Employability programmes 14 English language training 16 Special educational needs 18 Early years 20 Educational technology and training provision 22 Educational technology 22 Other resources 24 Qualifications, assessment and quality assurance 26 Curriculum and qualifications 26 Assessment 26 Inspection and quality assurance 26 Teaching and leadership 30 Teacher recruitment 30 Teacher training 30 Leadership 30 Governance 30 Supporting educational delivery 32 Construction 32 Furniture and specialist equipment 32 Facilities management 32 Educational consultancy 32 Professional services for the education sector 32 Financing education projects 34 Further information 37 2 UK Education & Training Capability | Education and training provision Education and training provision More than 6,000 British-style schools operate around the world and more than 38 UK universities have branch campuses overseas. UK schools, colleges, higher education institutions, technical and vocational training providers, English language and other specialist education and training providers are experienced in adapting their models of education and training for successful delivery overseas. Schools Many countries have a shortage of British-style schools operating primary and secondary school places overseas that meet certain standards and there is growing demand for may apply to become members of high-quality, British-style schools. associations that provide support, International schools following UK guidance and inspection services. The curricula are highly valued and leading Independent Schools Council (ISC) UK independent schools, building on brings together eight independent their strong reputations, have schools associations, including the responded by establishing Council of British International Schools campuses overseas. (COBIS), to represent more than 1,200 independent schools. These schools UK schools have experience of are recognised by the OECD as among operating all over the world including the best in the world and educate in China and Southeast Asia, the more than 500,000 children. Middle East, Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Indian subcontinent and central Asia. The projects described on the following page are case studies of UK capability in the provision of schooling overseas from China, Hong Kong, Colombia and Poland. UK Education & Training Capability | Education and training provision 3 CASE STUDY CASE STUDY Schools for Latin America Developing a leading international schools In June 2012, UK schools group Knightsbridge Schools network International (KSI) acquired Colegio La Candelaria, a Dulwich College International (DCI) is a family of schools with respected family-run girls’ school in Guaymaral, an five international schools and two International High School emerging suburb of Bogota, Colombia. The school was in Programmes. Following the same educational philosophy as difficulty, student numbers had dropped and bank its founder school, Dulwich College in London, DCI started borrowings had been restructured to defer repayment. operations in China in 2003 with the establishment of KSI evaluated the school and decided that La Candelaria Dulwich College Shanghai, a co-educational, academic could be the ideal site for KSI’s first school in Latin institution offering education to the diverse expatriate America. KSI developed a detailed strategic plan to communities. Following the success of its Shanghai school, transition the school to a co-educational international DCI has established Dulwich Colleges in Beijing, Suzhou and school with a new student intake. KSI also appointed an Seoul. These colleges are leading international schools in international school director and a team of experienced their respective cities, with a strong reputation for quality educators to execute the ambitious plan to make KSI education. In August 2014, a seventh college opened in Bogota the leading international school in Bogota. Singapore. DCI has also established Dulwich College International High School Programmes in Zhuhai, Guangdong KSI rebranded the school, engaged actively with the Province, and in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, in partnership press, invested in new facilities, upgraded existing with leading Chinese high schools. The High School facilities, and developed the curriculum of the school to Programmes are aimed at providing the Dulwich concept of include the International Baccalaureate curriculum and education to local Chinese students wishing to study at the Colombian National curriculum. universities overseas. The success of these colleges and programmes has established DCI as a leading provider of KSI continues its expansion in Latin America and international schooling in Asia. Putting students first in all it worldwide and has recently opened the KSI Learning and does, DCI provides a balanced education centred on Psychology centre and a pre-school nursery, ‘KSI KidS’, in academic challenge and excellence, competitive sports, Bogota. KSI has also acquired another troubled school, strength in the visual and performing arts, and a sense of successfully launching KSI Panama. responsibility towards the community. In partnership with Dulwich College in London, DCI is now looking to expand the Dulwich network around the world, with a focus on the major CASE STUDY global financial and cultural capitals, and to continue its Bespoke tutoring programmes approach to creating a global family of schools based on a strategy of one college, many campuses. In 2011, UK tutoring company Enjoy Education was asked by a family in Poland to organise a two-year tutoring programme, to be delivered at the family home in Poland, CASE STUDY covering both the teaching of academic subjects and the development of interview techniques. Enjoy Education Increasing the capacity of Hong Kong’s designed an individualised tutoring programme for the primary schools student using a blended model of face-to-face tuition delivered both in person and online. During the two years, In response to a shortage of international primary school a team of five tutors travelled to the family’s home in places, in 2013 the Hong Kong Education Bureau awarded Poland at regular intervals to teach lessons in their areas Nord Anglia Education a school campus in the Kwun Tong of expertise. Virtual tutoring was delivered in between District. Nord Anglia Education was the only new operator these sessions using online tutoring software. The client to be awarded a school site made available by the Hong received regular written feedback from the tutors who Kong government owing to its track record of successfully also prepared termly assessments to track performance. opening new, high-quality international schools across the As a result of this bespoke tutoring programme, the world and tailoring those schools’ educational provision to student improved his grades from below average to the requirements of international parents. Nord Anglia excellent and was offered a place at his target school, Education was also able to provide school staff with access one of the best in the UK. to Nord Anglia University, which delivers professional development and training courses to more than 250 local teachers. Following a comprehensive renovation of the existing premises, the Nord Anglia International School opened in September 2014. Drawing on more than 40 years’ experience, Nord Anglia Education has created a world-class school for primary and lower secondary students that follows the English national curriculum. 4 UK Education & Training Capability | Education and training provision Higher education