International School Startup Management and Consultancy

Plan your international school startup with IGE; contract for success

International school startups follow a similar process and formula wherever you are planning to open your school. Your project, however, is unique: in your potential impact on the market you are entering, in how that market affects the type of school you can open, the investment needed, and staffing.

The opening of an international school involves three broad phases. Within those phases the outcomes of a multitude of inputs and outputs must come together at different points for your school to successfully open.

Our experience and expert advice will ensure that your school opening timeline is well planned, and executed, optimising your chance of successfully opening to a time plan, and bringing forward the day that you begin to draw in an ROI.

The stages in opening your international school

From your vision to international school licencing

The first stage of making your vision a reality is to deliver a feasibility report. This will identify school’s financial viability and investment potential. We will identify your market, and how you’d grow your school. This includes identifying the site, the competition, and licencing requirements.

From licencing to opening a new international School

Our project management oversees the process of preparing all aspects of your school for opening. This includes the build, staff recruitment, staff preparation, legals, policies, marketing, curriculum preparation, and equipping the school to with the best foundation for success.

From opening to the ROI of an international school

IGE can manage your school for you through the first year in order for it to become established with the support of a full team of expert. The aim will be to quickly establish trust in the community by deliver an excellent education for pupils, and service for parents.

Processes we deliver for your international school opening

  • feasibility studies for international schools

  • licencing

  • school design

  • construction work for new builds and remodeling

  • curriculum choice, and design

  • accreditation, and inspections

  • contracts and partnerships

  • financing, and investors

  • policy writing

  • school fittings and furniture

  • teacher and management recruitment

  • pupil enrolment

  • marketing, and advertising

  • systems and procedures

  • opening the school through operating