The New Eurotrotters: Freedom to Work, Freedom to Learn
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NWK_13_11_06_UK 1/11/06 3:54 pm Page 2 Focus on International Schools Advertisement The New Eurotrotters: Freedom to Work, Freedom to Learn Embracing the New Europe other critical elements in achieving a balanced, fulfilling, existence: the A United Europe provides its citizens with unprecedented freedom of happiness, security and opportunities of both one’s partner and movement. European universities compete for students. International children. Success is not only about making a living. It’s also about companies compete for outstanding professionals. The recently making a life. The bottom line is that Eurotrotters will ‘trot’ if the move founded and widespread European Union Agencies recruit new talent provides career opportunities for partners and a quality, transferable to staff their numerous posts. education for their children. Parents accepting a move for reasons of The nature of assignments is changing too, with an increase in personal career will think long and hard if they feel they are outsourcing in all sectors. The workplace is more mobile and project- jeopardizing their children’s futures. oriented. People work on shorter contracts, work part-time, and change their place of work more frequently. ‘Eurotrotters’: young, smart professionals This increased flexibility is a positive element for the economy of the EU and provides possibilities for international organizations to plan open to frequent changes of work, their management futures. European citizens now have real choices on location and language optimal location for their work and retirement. Taking advantage of this freedom is a new generation of ‘Eurotrotters’: young, smart professionals open to frequent changes of work, location and The Educational Challenge language. New levels of movement create new educational challenges in most But this freedom does come at a price. There is less job security, European capitals: But how are we to meet the needs of the children less ‘comfort’ in being able to map out a secure career until retirement, of these mobile workers in a linguistically diversified Europe? What and less protectionism of jobs. There is also the real impact on the kind of international schooling should be offered in the European www.isb.be 1400 students from 70 countries worldwide ONE MISSION Everyone ISB included, challenged, successful The International School of Brussels, a.s.b.l TheINTERNATIONAL Kattenberg 19, 1170 Brussels - Tel. (+32) 2 661 42 24 - Fax (+32) 2 661 42 13 - Email [email protected] SCHOOLofBRUSSELS To Advertise Tel: +44 (0)20 7306 0312 or Email: [email protected] NWK_13_11_06_UK 1/11/06 3:54 pm Page 3 Focus on International Schools Advertisement Switzerland IN SWITZERLAND Study (Alliance française, DELF) ü Intensive French (Cambridge, Toefl & TOEIC) ege ü Intensive English Lemania Coll ü Summer courses: July - September 3, ch. de Préville Box 550 P.O. e ü Diplômes: secrétaireCommerce, de directionGestion,at français 1001 Lausann ü Baccalauré Switzerland turité suisse Tel. +41 21 320 1501 ü Ma Fax +41 21 312 6700 Boarding & Day students The Spirit of Zuoz is commitment. 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And what are we to say to Meeting the Challenge those families that include children with ‘special educational needs’? Today’s reality is that there is a large body of students who ‘learn The International Schools differently’ and, away from the support networks of home, families of The International School of Brussels, the oldest, largest International such children are struggling to find suitable options and often are school in the European capital, is at the forefront of efforts to address burdened with massive additional costs for schooling. As schools, we this challenge. Driven by its mission of ‘everyone included, everyone cannot simply continue to turn away students with anything more than challenged, everyone successful’, ISB offers structured ESL support, mild learning disabilities. Our challenge is to serve these regionally instruction in French, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese, language mobile families and to provide access to an educational system that programmes in fifteen mother-tongues and a comprehensive support meets a wide variety of learning needs. system for children with mild to severe learning disabilities. It also provides a programme of adult learning including a Masters degree. In this way, the hope is to influence international schooling by A Eurotrotters Manifesto providing an inclusive model of service to all students, and to a significant number of adults. However it does so without any We believe that all children deserve the same educational government support. The resulting tuition fees are so high as to be a opportunities. This means schooling should support: disincentive to those corporations, diplomatic communities and mobile • the child’s mother tongue, to retain cultural identity and individuals for whom it was established. facilitate re-integration • second language learning, giving access to the main The European Schools language of instruction, e.g. English as a Second The European institutions have developed their own model, creating Language (ESL) thirteen European schools, accepting children across the whole age • opportunities to learn key European languages, facilitating range and offering the European Baccalaureate, recognized in all the better international communication and relocation across Member States of the European Union. Europe The European Parliament has engaged the European Schools to • children who learn differently, with a range of special develop the process for accepting other schools as associated schools educational needs. able to offer the European Baccalaureate. 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