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Hong Kong school named ‘All-Through School of the Year' while Principal Kenny Duncan named 'All-Through Principal of the Year' for 2025.

In this article, Dr Terry Creissen gives his insights into Nord Anglia’s approach to motivating children by encouraging deeper engagement.

Nord Anglia Education (NAE) today announced that Dr Terry Creissen OBE has been appointed Regional Managing Director China International Schools and a member of Nord Anglia’s Executive Committee. Prior to his appointment, Dr Creissen was NAE’s Managing Director for India. It was also announced that Brian Cooklin has been appointed Managing Director (India). Brian is the founding Principal of the award-winning Nord Anglia International School Hong Kong (NAIS Hong Kong). He took up his new position at the end of the 2020 academic year, succeeding Dr Terry Creissen.

Our global family of schools continues to grow, with two brand-new schools in China set to officially open their doors to students on 1 September 2020 for the start of the new academic year. We are proud to say that this brings our total number of schools to 68, located across 29 countries around the world.

Nord Anglia Education (NAE), the world’s leading premium schools group, announced that its four brand-new bilingual schools in mainland China have opened for the new school year. The bilingual schools are Nord Anglia School Beijing, Fangshan; Nord Anglia School Foshan; Nord Anglia School Nantong; and Nord Anglia School Shenzhen. Welcoming hundreds of new students on opening this week, the schools will educate more than 7,200 students in total.

Focussing on play during a child’s early years education is a motivational approach that enables them to achieve greater academic success, develop lifelong skills and a positive attitude to learning.

Creativity isn’t a trait unique to those who pursue the arts. Educators say it’s a way of thinking that leads to imaginative and unique solutions to all types of real-world problems

Learning has shifted from solving a problem with a single, definitive answer to identifying problems in a given situation and offering multiple, possible solutions, Nord Anglia Education, Education Director Andy Puttock says.

Where you go is not who’ll you’ll be, were comments that sparked debate recently in the media and got many of us thinking, does that statement ring true for the university you choose? Windermere Preparatory School’s International Student Advisor Ruth Lahnston, Counselor Nancy Gerena and British International School Chicago, South Loop’s Director of Counseling Lindsay Kafitz say students should choose a university that is the best fit for them.

Promoting curiosity and exploration is crucial to help achieve more effective problem solving. Schools can play a part in developing these qualities in young people through inquiry-based learning

Attending boarding school is no longer about convenience for expats living abroad, rather educators believe students develop important life skills, setting them up for success in the future.

This week, at Nord Anglia Education’s ‘Outstanding Teachers for Outstanding Schools’ event in London, Mr Embley told potential teaching candidates for roles in China about what they could expect.

International education has evolved and so too must schools

Employers want schools to equip students with complex problem-solving and critical thinking skills from a young age to better prepare them for work in the future

Jefta Timmer was only 10 years old when she moved from her home in the Netherlands to India with her family. While she knew she would be leaving behind her old home, her childhood friends and her favourite foods, she had no idea that she would also be leaving behind her old perspective of the world forever.

STEAM learning empowers students to become creative by exposing them to situations without parameters, challenging them to both identify problems and invent solutions.

Playing competitive sports can teach students many positive social behaviours and life skills, but above all they realise that true competition is about working on themselves.

Educators are leaving traditional practices behind in favour of a tailored, more personalised approach for each student that gives them greater control over their own learning.

MIT’s Professor Anette Peko Hosoi is challenging our students to explore the unique qualities animals possess and how it can enhance human ability or solve human problems in the Super Natural MIT Challenge.