The Western Boarding Schools Association (WBSA) is a consortium of independent, accredited boarding schools located in the western United States and Canada. The organisation represents a broad mix of top-tier, accredited boarding schools across the Midwest and West Coast states and provinces and works to promote the attractiveness of the West as a destination of choice.
The Texas Boarding Schools Association (TSBA) is a small collection of private, boarding schools from across the Lone Star State. Each of the member schools are nationally reputed as amongst the best boarding programmes in the United States.
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The Association of Military Colleges & Schools of the United States (AMCSUS) is an organisation representing the interests of and advocating for the many academies, high schools and colleges that offer an education with an approved military tradition and leadership focus. AMCSUS was founded in 1914 and has championed this unique sector for more than a century acting both as a lobbying body and as a facilitator for the sharing and development of best-practice in military school curricula and management.
The Choir Schools Association (CSA) is a well-established organisation representing the interests of the United Kingdom’s most significant chorister schools. The CSA’s various members include some of the country’s oldest and most illustrious schools, many attached to the country’s most noteworthy cathedrals and minsters, others attached to prominent Oxbridge college chapels or famous music schools.
Ghana’s Private Education Coalition (also known as the Private Education Coalition Committee and referred to by the acronyms PEC / PECC) is a collective lobby group comprised of the major private schools associations and representing hundreds of private schools in the country. It was formed in 2020 to give a united voice to the sector in representations to government and to media at a time of pending turmoil for private schools in a country where they account for the majority of educational institutions.
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The Guild of Independent Schools of New York City (GISNY / GISNYC) is an association of the leading and most prestigious private schools in and around New York City with member schools representing each of the five boroughs. The guild is an exclusive consortium whose members are extremely well-known in New York City and across the eastern seaboard. Indeed, many of the schools are of international renown and are considered to be amongst a select cadre of the world’s elite schools.
The Vermont Independent Schools Association (VISA) is the primary trade body for independent and private schools in Vermont. As the state’s leading independent school’s organisation, VISA represents a substantial number of the state’s private and alternative educational institutions, with more than a hundred operating in the Green Mountain State. VISA members range from the traditional private college-preparatory schools to faith schools, special educational needs schools, and alternative schools. If you are interested in exploring Vermont’s independent schools, VISA is a good place to begin, with a membership that includes some of the best that the state has to offer.
The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) is the leading representative body for private and independent schools in North America. The NAIS membership includes an assortment of schools at all education levels (pre-school, elementary, middle and high school), with members subscribing to a diverse range of educational philosophies and pedagogies.
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The Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools (AGBIS) is the primary advisory, training and standard-setting body for the governors’ of independent schools in the United Kingdom. Its’ members represent the leading independent and private schools in the country, including a mix of boarding and day schools, primary and secondary schools, single-gender and co-educational schools. Only governors of schools whose Head is a member of a prescribed, Independent Schools Council affiliated membership body are eligible to join AGBIS. AGBIS works closely with those other organisations through it’s membership of the Independent Schools Council to advance standards in the sector and to ensure the United Kingdom remains a leading global market for independent schools.
The Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC) is the premier association of prestigious private & independent secondary schools in the United Kingdom. It is widely accepted that membership of the HMC is the best means of determining what constitutes a “Public School” in the English tradition. The HMC was established in 1869 when Edward Thring, then head of Uppingham School, invited the heads of a number of peer schools from across the United Kingdom to come together to discuss a number of shared issues and common concerns. The inaugural HMC event was conceived as a direct response to the proposals brought forward following the Clarendon Commission report into public schools – a Royal Commission whose purpose was to explore the status and financing of such schools at a time when much of the public discourse focussed on the future of secondary education and, ultimately, the role of the state in it’s provision.
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