NIST does full IB, ISB mostly follows an American curriculum but has the IB Diploma as an option, and I've never heard of St Stephens.

Where did you have that done?!!

PsyGuy said, "Cost is a fraction of what you'd pay domestically, your implant and the procedure wouldn't cost more than a couple hundred USD."

I don't know about elsewhere in Asia, but an implant in Bangkok will cost at least $2000 and probably closer to $3000. That's assuming it's a straightforward case. I don't know how much implants cost in the US, so probably this is still a saving, but it's nowhere near as cheap as PsyGuy is suggesting. And the same principle applies to other kinds of dental work. You can certainly get high quality work from well-qualified professionals, but it's not that cheap.

Excess baggage is all very well if you don't have a lot of stuff. Experience tells me that when you have kids, the stuff soon mounts up. Besides, shipping stuff can work out cheaper than having to buy a load of new stuff when you arrive. Seven Seas is a good company. They have offices all over the world, they're very reliable, not too expensive, and you can work out your own quote using their online calculator.

Not all counselling positions include admin responsibilities or college counselling. There's currently a vacancy for a middle school counsellor at NIST which includes neither. Joining a team of 5 secondary school counsellors so could be good for a newbie as there should be lots of support.

Rome International School is not really an international school at all. The vast majority of students are wealthy Italians. The buildings and facilities are woeful.

anappleaday, I think ichiro misread your post, and thought you were saying the schools you listed were dreadful, rather than the opposite.

[quote]P.S. Make sure you go back and edit your first post where you used “moraleâ€

ichiro, haven't you got anything better to do?

If I wrote, "how much store can I set by a poster's opinion if he or she can't spell the word morale?" would that be better? Do you seriously think that in an informal forum posting, 'he or she' sounds better than 'they'? And does it really matter?

The original point was that 'morale' would be the most frequently misspelled word in ISR postings. You only have to read a couple of reviews to see that. When you read a lot of reviews and see the same word misspelled over and over, it becomes frustrating. But clearly you don't have a problem with spelling mistakes, only with antiquated grammar differences of opinion.

And incidentally, this is from www.oxforddictionaries.com:

•You can use the plural pronouns ‘they’, ‘them’, ‘their’ etc., despite the fact that, technically, they are referring back to a singular noun:
If your child is thinking about a gap year, they can get good advice from this website.
A researcher has to be completely objective in their findings.

Some people object to the use of plural pronouns in this type of situation on the grounds that it’s ungrammatical. In fact, the use of plural pronouns to refer back to a singular subject isn’t new: it represents a revival of a practice dating from the 16th century. It’s increasingly common in current English and is now widely accepted both in speech and in writing.

I had a narrow escape a couple of years ago as I was actually offered a job at the International School of Heiligenhaus. This was before any of the reviews started to appear. Thank goodness I turned it down. I am amazed that school has any students left or has not been shut down by the German authorities!

I'm a bit confused as to how you can do a BEd in a year, in most countries it is a four year or at least a three year degree. So even if you manage to complete it, it may not be the most highly regarded qualification.

However, I woudn't let one bad practicum put you off. By all means persist and try again. But don't struggle through thinking that international teaching will be easy by comparison. That won't necessarily be the case, so you need to be honest with yourself about whether it is for you.

Guess what I got today? An email from this school advising me I hadn't been shortlisted! I'd kind of worked that out already! They don't know what they're missing!

Anybody else ever hear anything?

That's great news Londonchick! Congratulations.

I got an offer from my first choice school right at the start of the fair, so I was extremely pleased.

I was also very impressed with how civilised and professional everyone was. Especially at the start of the sign-up session when there were 500 people trying to get in and only one door! But there was no pushing or shoving, everyone was really polite and friendly.

I hope it's good news for you too, Misskiwi.

So how is everyone going at the Search fair? Londonchick? Misskiwi? Anyone else? How have you found it?

I've been looking at the schedule for school presentations at the Search London fair. Does anyone know what these are like? What can you expect from these presentations? I'd like to get to the presentations for as many of my target schools as possible, but obviously interviews will have to take priority! How do schools perceive your attendance or non-attendance at their presentations?

Also, did anyone go to the CIS fair? What was it like?