International schools accreditation support services
Our services support international schools achieve their accreditation goals
IGE supports school accreditation for the following curricula and system:
CIS (all-curricula)
Australian
BSO (English [UK] National Curricula)
IB (international)
New Brunswick (Canada)
Ontario (Canada)
UAE annual accreditation
US Curricula
Choosing IGE for your independent accreditation support
Once you have decided to become an accredited school, or if you are already an accredited school going through the process again, then IGE are able to support you. As an independent international schools accreditation services provider, our core team and other members have the breadth and depth of skills to support you to gain initial accreditation, or improve upon your previous grading. We have the skills, knowledge, and capacity to identify aspects of your school operations that can be developed to optimise their effectiveness, and your income potential.
Your accreditation journey
International Schools Accreditation Stages
Stage 1
Choosing to become accredited
Not all countries expect international schools to be accredited or inspected. Where this is the case, doing so is for the commercial reason of demonstrating to the community that you are operating to certain standards (e.g. CIS), or delivering the curricula that you advertise.
Should you choose to become accredited, then you may have to sign up to that accrediting body for three years prior to first accreditation in readiness for your first inspection.
Stage 2
Quality Assurance Audit (QAA): building strength
Whether the accreditation journey is a choice or legislated, we often find a school’s self-evaluation to be overly generous, which when not agreed with, can come as a costly shock.
If you have yet to be accredited, consider bringing in IGE’s quality assurance audit (QAA).
Our QAA’s are designed to mirror the accreditation you are seeking, with other factors that are guides to strengthening your school’s foundations.
Stage 3
Preparing for your first accreditation visit
There is a lot of work involved in preparing for your first accreditation visit. Our qualified accreditors can be with you regularly from your QAA to support you develop your standards, as well as in the year prior to your first accreditation visit.
Over time, we can advise you on changes to be made in the year approaching the visit, write your self-evaluation with you, and also carry out a mock inspection.
Everything we do with you will be focused on you becoming accredited
Stage 4
The Accreditation Visit
The inspectors / accreditors when they visit will be advising the school owners, Board, and/or Principal as they go, as they want you to become accredited.
One of our qualified inspectors for that system can be with you before and throughout the process, helping you to ensure the inspectors have everything they require, and supporting you to respond to their ongoing advice.
Stage 5
Post-Accreditation Support
Post accreditation/inspection, if you have not had the benefit of our team to support you, you can engage us now.
If we have been with you prior to the inspection, our team will have explained to you where you may or will fall short in an accreditation visit. For example, you may not yet employ a high enough percentage of teachers trained in that curriculum to be recognised at the highest standard.
You may also disagree with the findings of the accreditation judgement, and we can support you with constructing a letter asking for a reevaluation in those areas - or we may agree with the accreditors’ findings.
Stage 6
Improving
At all stages, IGE can work with you in a process of ongoing improvement across your teaching and learning, practice, and business operations to raise your standards and accreditation status.