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DIRECTORY OF INDEPENDENT AND SPECIALIST SCHOOLS’ INTERNATIONAL & SATELLITE BRANCHES

Boasting incredible campuses that would rival most universities, professional-grade sports facilities, cutting-edge laboratories and innovative curriculums, a new wave of schools is rapidly being established across the world. With their establishment comes a new standard in international schooling. Yet, despite their modern buildings and state-of-the-art amenities, many of these schools claim a proud and illustrious history and a legacy of prestige and exclusivity that, in some cases, is many centuries old. These schools are part of an emergent trend in the education sector that has seen many of the oldest and most-celebrated independent schools (and some non-independent schools) opening branches or franchises overseas.

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TRI-COLLEGE CONSORTIUM (TRI-CO): THE CONSORTIUM OF QUAKER COLLEGES AT THE HEART OF THE QUAKER CONSORTIUM

The Tri-College Consortium (“Tri-Co”) is a collaborative association between three top-ranked private liberal arts colleges located in the Main Line region, to the west of the city of Philadelphia. The three member institutions have a long history of cooperation, common initiatives, and pooled resources. Students at each school are entitled to cross-register for courses at one of the other member schools, with some academic programmes being delivered jointly. The Tri-Co colleges also operate a combined library system, an integrated transport system linking their campuses and several other jointly managed services and facilities.

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FOUR COLLEGE CONFERENCE (FCC): THE FORERUNNER OF THE PRESTIGIOUS SEVEN SISTERS CONFERENCE

The Four College Conference was an historic association of four of America’s leading and most prestigious women’s colleges. Its members represented the upper echelon of selective liberal arts colleges for women in the Northeastern region and had established themselves as academic powerhouses and the preferred choice for young Brahmin and Knickerbocker women from America’s great political and industrial dynasties. The Conference existed for over a decade from its foundation in 1915 until it was expanded to include several other renowned women-only colleges setting the stage for what would become the Seven Sisters.

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THE ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOL: WHAT IS IT AND WHY IS IT CALLED THAT?

In the United Kingdom and those countries where the English influence was perhaps the greatest, the term “Public School” is well understood and commonly used, albeit extremely poorly defined. Outside of those countries, the term’s use as a moniker for what are, in fact, elite private schools is a cause of great confusion – especially where schools under the management and care of the state or local authorities may be called public schools, as is the case in the United States. Moreover, even in those Commonwealth countries wherein the term is used, it is often misapplied and used as a synonym for a private school (particularly in India and Australia). However, not all private schools are Public Schools.

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