International Schooling.
Much to the country’s chagrin, the German education system has been getting mediocre marks lately from the OECD, the world’s club of rich nations. Casting an if-looks-could-kill glance at the achievements of their Nordic colleagues, Germany’s teachers petulantly blame their prime victims: working class children and immigrant families.
Only now are Germans facing up to the fact that their highly selective, sort-‘em-out-young school system is instrumental in preventing social mobility. Shamed into action, some German states have been dallying with such revolutionary concepts as free kindergartens, keeping in kids in school all day and even charging modest tuition fees for university. Progress has been predictably patchy on all these fronts.
Ground down by taxes, few cash-strapped German families would ever seriously contemplate sending their children to a private school. You probably should. Here are the alternatives in the region; home schooling, illegal in Germany, isn’t one of them.
ISD International School of Dusseldorf.
Established in 1968 the ISD International School of Dusseldorf aims to serve internationally- and interculturally-minded students and families from the Dusseldorf area and its surroundings. It provides a very good program...
ISR International School on the Rhine in Neuss.
The ISR Internationale Schule am Rhein in Neuss is a private, full-day, international school located in Neuss, on the left bank of the river Rhine across from Düsseldorf. Neuss is easily reached due to its central location in the region...
English Language.
Being abroad with children is always a challenge, whether it’s for holidays or living and working. From a certain age, schooling plays an important role in the educational and personal development of kids and parents have to arrive...
Ecole Française de Düsseldorf (Lycée).
French still is one of the most widely taught languages in the world and almost every larger city hosts a French school. In Dusseldorf children and teenagers can attend all stages of schooling à la Française, from école maternelle to lycée...
Japanese International School Dusseldorf.
Dusseldorf is sometimes referred to as "little Tokyo on the Rhine" and this is due to its strong Japanese community. The first Japanese person was registered in 1905. A rapid expansion of Japanese companies occurred in 1955...
