People and places
Do we really impact the future? Varduhi Grigoryan-Avetisyan evaluates the mission of international schools
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realization. The English School of Mongolia is just one school in hundreds that have a number of such educators united under one roof. The English School of Mongolia was founded in 2011 as an independent international school, accredited by Cambridge Examinations and awarded IB World School status in 2015. It is the only FOBISIA School in Mongolia. The language of instruction is English, and currently at ESM there are some 70 foreign and Mongolian teaching staff and over 750 students. Aiming at bringing about change in the education system by modeling new teaching and learning approaches, and moving towards becoming a fully authorized IB continuum school offering the Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme and Diploma Programme, ESM pursues the philosophy and mission of supporting the developing country, seeing the bright future of Mongolia in the country’s growing generations. Mainly targeting the middle class Spring |
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Having worked in many international schools before arriving at the English School of Mongolia (ESM), I was surprised to see the great difference between the previous schools I had been working at and ESM. Not all schools are established and led with the bright vision of making a change in the country it is founded in! Having in the past been a very isolated country, nowadays Mongolia can truly be called a developing country, which has opened itself to new ideas and new undertakings which might lead to many positive changes in the future. Arising from the vision that the next few decades will see big change in the progress of the country, a lot of projects have been put into realization. That is also one of the reasons why people with the true heart of educators, and the deep belief in education as the main foundation stone allowing any development to happen, can find welcoming grounds to put their cherished vision of the ‘power of education’ into
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