Global

The best schools in the world increasingly look beyond their parochial environment to acquire a greater global perspective, to benchmark against peers on an international stage and to better prepare their pupils as global citizens for a better connected, globalised world. This has seen a proliferation of international schools and the development of international programmes at established independent schools. Such schools have positioned themselves to better attract international students and, especially, to take advantage of emergent middle class demand in new market economies, allowing those schools to augment their reputation, prestige and standing but, more importantly perhaps, to lock in fee income growth.