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When an Expat Marriage Fails: What About the Children?
Typically the issues around a child’s schooling when an expatriate marriage breaks up are related to custody. In the case of a local divorce custody issues may be complex, but they are simple compared with those that surface when a family lives outside their home country. This article presents families, HR, and... »
Relocating with Children: They’re in School. Now What?
For parents relocating with children, finding the right school is one of the greatest pressures of the move. But once the child “gets in” the issue often is forgotten in the frenzy of visas, moving homes, leaving aging parents, and pets. In order for a child to thrive in school, parents should... »
We’re relocating. What do we need to think about before moving our children to a new school?
When parents learn that the family will be relocating their first concern is generally the education of their children. Here are some questions and answers that we have encountered to help parents think carefully about what matters to them – but also what matters to their children - before moving. »
Finding the Right School in a new Location: A Methodical Approach
A successful school search is not simply about “getting in” to a school in a new country. All children moving to another culture are vulnerable and must therefore be handled with care. A school search involves some logistics but, more importantly, should include safeguards to ensure that the child’s most basic requirements,... »
Relocating With Teenagers: When is the Best Time to Move – International Schools
There is no perfect time to move a child, or no specific age at which a child becomes too old to relocate. At each year, the decision of whether or not to move a child presents trade-offs. Sometimes parents of secondary school children are unwilling to move their children to another country.... »
Minimizing Schooling Challenges When Repatriation is Abrupt
You moved a family with three children to London at the start of the academic year. As a result of the recession, you are moving the assignee home next week. The family of 5 was transferred on an expat package. »
International Relocation and School Considerations for Children with Special Needs
Moving with children is always difficult, overwhelming parents with guilt. Parents have researched and moved mountains to give their offspring every possible advantage at home. When children have special needs, whether medical or educational, parents worry even more about relocating. Some have devoted their lives to finding the right school placement for their child. ... »
The International Baccalaureate Program
The IB Diploma Program is designed as an academically challenging and balanced program of education with final examinations which prepare students, normally aged 16 to 19, for success at university and life beyond. »
Top Ten Tips for Selecting a School for Relocating Parents
1. Separate your child from yourself. Learn all you can from your colleagues and friends, but recognize that your child is an individual and a solution that works for one child will not necessarily work for another. »
Schools: Education and Relocation
Educational concerns are often overlooked when structuring an expatriate package, but to families moving with children there is no greater obstacle to taking on an assignment or to the potential success of a move. »