By Andrew Kittell
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With the 2018-2019 academic year now underway, three of the four ACS International Schools campuses are celebrating multi-year high enrollments.
Our schools remain exceptionally diverse communities, in aggregate welcoming families representing 100 nationalities and speaking 70 first languages. Most ACS-enrolled families still relocate for career-related reasons. They come from around the world, including here in North America where the ACS group’s maintained an outreach office for over two decades. This autumn, we’ll continue enrolling an ever-increasing number of internationally minded British and other local families in the UK and Qatar.
We’re also honoring our Founders’ legacies as well, becoming even more socioeconomically inclusive while striving to serve the greater good.
ACS Formally Granted Charitable Status in the UK and Launches US Non-profit
As reported elsewhere in this newsletter, ACS International Schools is now a UK registered charity with a clearly defined mission to better serve our core population, but also broaden access, offering both merit and need-based scholarships on both sides of the Atlantic. A newly formed and completely separate US non-profit also held its first board meeting this month in New York. Much more will be shared in the days ahead, but our Founders’ long-term vision’s been realised, one of helping bright young people benefit from a world-class ACS-style education, including summer study near London.
British Studies Summer Programme Welcomes 20th Class of Scholars
For 20 years, highly deserving and academically able high school-age American students have travelled from across the United States to our Cobham, Surrey campus for a nearly two-week residential summer study-travel programme we call British Studies.
Some of these summer scholars will be honoured Thursday, September 20th during a formal reception at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Washington, DC.
Plans are now underway to expand the reach of British Studies, attracting more students and building an endowment funding future for all-expenses-paid scholarships.
Look for ACS on the Road Autumn 2018 In the autumn, ACS representatives will sponsor, exhibit, and present at key relocation and related events. Please catch up with us here:
Canadian Employee Relocation Council Conference in Montreal Montreal, September 16th-18th British Ambassador’s Reception for ACS Summer Scholars Washington, DC, September 20th
Worldwide ERC Global Workforce Symposium Seattle, October 17th - 19th
Independent Educational Consultants Association Conference Los Angeles, November 7th - 9th
New Jersey Relocation Council Conference New Jersey, November 14th