International Schools Blog

A modern humanities option for curious, globally minded learners

Pearson’s iGCSE Global Citizenship course offers international schools and colleges an exciting additional choice within the humanities for middle-school students. Alongside Geography and History, it provides a third pathway within the “individuals and societies” curriculum, giving families and students greater flexibility to choose a subject that truly fits their interests and future goals.

It’s time to reconsider our approach so that we’re setting up language learners for a more supported entrance into English literacy, and a more successful and enjoyable journey to being a reader.

We all know that students get stressed out by revision. They have a lot of important exams to study for, a dwindling amount of time, and – often – they are left to their own devices.

With exam season around the corner it’s time to get your students thinking seriously about revision. Here are our top tips to help improve recall, manage time and energy levels and much more.

More and more children around the world are growing up with two or more languages. But how do we best support their harmonious bilingual development?

How can we change the pattern of choosing higher-status languages over the natural mother tongue? Explore how parents, teachers and policy makers can make a difference to language priorities.