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MIT Teaching Systems Lab Professor Justin Reich says regular testing our ideas paves the way for both teachers and students to learn through experience and evaluate how to move forward

If you want your child to excel academically, socially and personally, can studying the performing arts be a key to success? Laura Rea, Music Teacher and Southeast Asia Regional Lead for the Juilliard-Nord Anglia Performing Arts Programme at the British International School, Hanoi (BIS Hanoi) says studying the performing arts can help students gain key skills and qualities to prepare them for their future.

One in three Nord Anglia students are admitted to the world’s top 100 universities listed on the QS World University Rankings. So far, 94 per cent of Nord Anglia’s 2017/18 graduating class have now taken up places at leading universities in countries around the world, including prestigious schools such as Harvard, MIT, the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and many others.

Education advisory board Chair Lord David Puttnam says education reform is an “urgent necessity” and educators and school leaders must act as a catalyst for change by empowering and inspiring students by their own example.

Learn how an innovative approach to personalised teaching by a group of teachers at Collège Champittet helped ten students achieve far more than exam success.

Nord Anglia’s Education’s (NAE) Director Andy Puttock says schools have shifted from being transmitters of knowledge to becoming environments for students to develop the skills and qualities needed to thrive in the future, and keep pace in a rapidly changing world

The theme of this year’s MIT Challenges is STEAM Superheroes, a concept connecting Nord Anglia Education (NAE) students to current, cutting-edge research while reinforcing cross-disciplinary learning

Nord Anglia Education is known for its provision of the highest quality of international education for children all around the world. To provide the same standard of instruction to students of all ages in China and Vietnam, Nord Anglia has developed a bilingual teaching model in these two countries. Learn more about how Nord Anglia implements their bilingual educational offer and why demand for this type of education is growing worldwide.

The 2018/19 academic school year is now underway in Nord Anglia Education (NAE) schools around the world, but there is still plenty of cause to celebrate the incredible academic results achieved in the 2017/18 school year. We are proud of the marked improvement recorded across several of our offered curricula, with some definite standouts. Here are some of the many highlights from the past year’s great academic results.

An astounding 50 per cent of our students attained grades A*, A (or equivalent) in the I/GCSEs, two and half times the 2018 UK average of 20.5 per cent

Incorporating drama, the last part of our performing arts programme is more than just learning how to act. Acknowledging each subject’s qualities while engaging in all three curricula in a holistic way can help students build skills that are transferrable, which means they can be used across their subjects at school and later on in life, says Rachel Whitehunt, Director of Performing Arts at the British International School of Washington.

Students from Nord Anglia International School (NAIS HK) reflected on the first two days of STEAM Week @ MIT. They shared their journal entries with us and said they're thrilled by what they’ve experienced so far.

It’s one of the biggest events in NAE’s calendar. STEAM Week @ MIT kicks off this weekend on 29 April and our students are buzzing in anticipation of what’s to come! An interesting fact unknown to many about MIT is its motto, “mind and hand”, or Mens et Manus in Latin. We would like to share a blog post by Mark Orrow-Whiting, Nord Anglia Education’s Director of Curriculum and Student Performance, on why he believes the “mind and hand” philosophy is integral to NAE’s STEAM curriculum, which has been enhanced in a collaboration with the university.

Nord Anglia’s David Wall shares all about his vision for Global Expeditions and what these trips mean to Nord Anglia Education students.

Teachers studying for the Executive Masters in International Education by King’s College London got together at the KCL winter residentials to meet their tutors and peers, and to share their experiences in international education

Learning dance can be a transformative experience in a child’s education. Rachel White-hunt, Director of Performing Arts at the British International School of Washington talks about how students and teachers are responding to The Juilliard School’s embedded dance curriculum, and why it’s important students experience dance, music and drama together.

British film producer, UNICEF ambassador and educator, Lord David Puttnam shares personal insights from his childhood and the problems he faced with traditional schooling growing up. As Chairman of Nord Anglia's Education Advisory Board, Lord Puttnam envisions an education which encourages students to achieve more than they may have thought possible.

As World Children's Day fast approaches, Nord Anglia Education students around the world are contemplating their role in helping the most vulnerable children in the world. Da Won Shin, a student at The British International School Bratislava, shares her personal journey on finding her voice to advocate for children's rights at the 17th Informal ASEM Seminar on Human Rights which she attended with fellow students from College Beau Soleil and Prague British School.

Many successful people say that failure is a part of the journey to progress. However, failing is not often something that schools preach. Matt Gregory, a Year 4 teacher in Chicago, shares with us how teaching students how to overcome failure is one of the most important lessons he teaches.

MIT's mens et manus philosophy, or mind and hand in Latin, galvanised Darren Sutton to design a makerspace that would inspire students and staff alike. Find out how his trip to MIT with Nord Anglia Education students influenced him to build a creative space that would bring his school community together and get everyone to think outside the box with hands-on learning.