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Embracing the New EuropeA United Europe provides its citizens with unprecedented freedom of
movement. European universities compete for students. Internationalcompanies compete for outstanding professionals. The recentlyfounded and widespread European Union Agencies recruit new talentto staff their numerous posts.
The nature of assignments is changing too, with an increase inoutsourcing in all sectors. The workplace is more mobile and project-oriented. People work on shorter contracts, work part-time, andchange their place of work more frequently.
This increased flexibility is a positive element for the economy of theEU and provides possibilities for international organizations to plantheir management futures. European citizens now have real choices onoptimal location for their work and retirement. Taking advantage of thisfreedom is a new generation of ‘Eurotrotters’: young, smartprofessionals open to frequent changes of work, location andlanguage.
But this freedom does come at a price. There is less job security,less ‘comfort’ in being able to map out a secure career until retirement,and less protectionism of jobs. There is also the real impact on the
other critical elements in achieving a balanced, fulfilling, existence: thehappiness, security and opportunities of both one’s partner andchildren. Success is not only about making a living. It’s also aboutmaking a life. The bottom line is that Eurotrotters will ‘trot’ if the moveprovides career opportunities for partners and a quality, transferableeducation for their children. Parents accepting a move for reasons ofpersonal career will think long and hard if they feel they arejeopardizing their children’s futures.
The Educational ChallengeNew levels of movement create new educational challenges in most
European capitals: But how are we to meet the needs of the childrenof these mobile workers in a linguistically diversified Europe? Whatkind of international schooling should be offered in the European
The New Eurotrotters: Freedom to Work, Freedom to Learn
‘Eurotrotters’: young, smart professionalsopen to frequent changes of work,
location and language
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capitals to attract high level professionals? And what are we to say tothose families that include children with ‘special educational needs’?Today’s reality is that there is a large body of students who ‘learndifferently’ and, away from the support networks of home, families ofsuch children are struggling to find suitable options and often areburdened with massive additional costs for schooling. As schools, wecannot simply continue to turn away students with anything more thanmild learning disabilities. Our challenge is to serve these regionallymobile families and to provide access to an educational system thatmeets a wide variety of learning needs.
Meeting the Challenge
The International Schools The International School of Brussels, the oldest, largest International
school in the European capital, is at the forefront of efforts to addressthis challenge. Driven by its mission of ‘everyone included, everyonechallenged, everyone successful’, ISB offers structured ESL support,instruction in French, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese, languageprogrammes in fifteen mother-tongues and a comprehensive supportsystem for children with mild to severe learning disabilities. It alsoprovides a programme of adult learning including a Masters degree.
In this way, the hope is to influence international schooling byproviding an inclusive model of service to all students, and to asignificant number of adults. However it does so without anygovernment support. The resulting tuition fees are so high as to be adisincentive to those corporations, diplomatic communities and mobileindividuals for whom it was established.
The European SchoolsThe European institutions have developed their own model, creating
thirteen European schools, accepting children across the whole agerange and offering the European Baccalaureate, recognized in all theMember States of the European Union.
The European Parliament has engaged the European Schools todevelop the process for accepting other schools as associated schoolsable to offer the European Baccalaureate. Submissions regardingschools in Parma, Dunshaughlin, and Heraklion have already been
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A Eurotrotters ManifestoWe believe that all children deserve the same educationalopportunities. This means schooling should support:
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• second language learning, giving access to the main language of instruction, e.g. English as a Second Language (ESL)
• opportunities to learn key European languages, facilitating better international communication and relocation across Europe
• children who learn differently, with a range of special educational needs.
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AdvertisementInternational Schoolsmade, with others in the pipeline.
Both the international schools, with their inclusive approach, and theEuropean Schools, with their ‘one section per language’ approach, offerworkable alternatives that serve the children of the newly mobileEuropeans. Both approaches have achieved considerable success. Bothsuffer from the lack of a comprehensive system and the lack ofappropriate official recognition of the realities, educational and financial,of supporting learning for transient students of all learning abilities.
Until these realities are faced, the experience of rapid relocation willalways be fraught with difficulties and anxieties, and the full potential ofan open labour market will be compromised.
Kevin Bartlett Director, International School of Brussels, BelgiumChair, Board of the Council of International Schools
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