International schools group Nord Anglia Education has announced its first school in Uruguay.
It is being joined by International College in Punta del Este, which becomes Nord Anglia’s fourteenth school in Latin America.
The move is the latest indication of the ongoing growth and consolidation in the international schools market.
International College was founded in 2017 and has 550 students aged from 2-18. It offers a combination of the national curriculum, UK IGCSE and International Baccalaureate, with classes in both English and Spanish.
International College’s 190 staff will join 19,000-plus Nord Anglia colleagues, whose focus in recent times has been metacognition from the early years onwards.
Andrew Fitzmaurice, chief executive officer of Nord Anglia Education, said International College would benefit from “our collaborations with world-leading organisations”, including Unicef, The Juilliard School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and IMG Academy.
The announcement is the latest involving schools in Latin America. In March, for example, International Schools Partnership announced that it had acquired Colégio Progresso, an organisation formed of six schools in Brazil that educates over 5,500 students in five cities.
Also today, Tes reported on a Unesco report that looks at school leadership in Latin America. explores concepts including “distributed leadership”.
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