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The key features of the primary curriculum put forward by this Review are: Recognising the continuing importance of subjects and the essential knowledge, skills and understanding they represent. Providing a stronger focus on curriculum progression. Strengthening the focus on ensuring, that by the age of seven, children have a secure grasp of the literacy and numeracy skills they need to make good progress thereafter.  Strengthening the teaching and learning of ICT to enable them to be independent and confident users of technology by the end of primary education. Providing a greater emphasis on personal development through a more integrated and simpler framework for schools.  Building stronger links between the Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, and between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. in offering exciting opportunities for learning languages for 7-11 year olds.

Omeka: Serious Web Publishing

How Might You Use Omeka? Scholars: Use Omeka to publish an essay or digital dissertation, share primary source collections, and collaborate with others in the creation of digital scholarship. Features you might like: design themes, exhibit builder, tagging, dropbox plugin, iPaper plugin, geolocation plugin. Examples: Digital Worcester, Euclid Cooridor, Experiencing Medieval Places

Librarians: Use Omeka as the publishing tool to complement your online catalog or launch a digital exhibit. Features you might like: Dublin Core metadata standards, W3C and 508 compliant, extensible and customizable item fields, RSS/Atom syndication, MyOmeka plugin, data migration tools (coming soon). Examples: Photographs by Homer L. Shantz, Eminent Domain, Upper Ringwood Library Collection.

What is GlobalCampus? GlobalCampus connects young people with universities around the world to help them find the best opportunities for their future, wherever located.

How does it work? GlobalCampus is an online community: students and institutions can create a profile and connect. Student profiles work like CVs. Students can indicate the schools they have attended, their personal achievements, their aspirations and their preferred destinations to study. They can also add sample works and videos to present themselves and their interests. University profiles are generated directly by a university’s community - staff, faculty, current students and alumni. They feature both subjective information, like articles and presentation videos, and objective information, like admission requirements and course synopses. On GlobalCampus students can express their talent to receive offers from universities around the world, while universities can communicate their best assets to tudents in any country.

What are the next steps? We are now working on adding scholarship providers, so that once registered a student will know also where there are funds available for her. (Did you know that every year hundreds of millions of dollars worth of scholarships go unclaimed? Thousands of people are eligible to receive financial aid to study somewhere in the world right now, but they simply don’t know about it. We would like to change that).

对于国际学士学位能给学生在本国或海外大学制度中带来任何特别竞争优势的想法，一些专家表示怀疑。国际名校指南(Good Schools Guide Internationa)的女士普莱勒(Plyler)称，美国和英国的大学——众多希望到海外大学深造的学生最终目的地——清楚地了解包括美国、英国、德国和法国在内的一大批国家的教育制度，并会挑选在各自体系内表现优秀的学生。

专家们还指出，在一些教育不特别受推崇的国家，即使对于当地孩子来说，国际学校也是首都城市中最好的学校。然而，独立专家建议说，国际学校未来的父母应努力营造学校操场上的语言环境。如果孩子主要是讲当地语言，而不是学校的官方语言，他们怎么能很好地适应呢？

也许，相比打造国际理念的学生的雄心，进入国际学校的最大的好处要平凡的多。 “国际名校指南”的普莱勒女士称，运作良好的国际学校“对于帮助来来去去的学生非常在行。” 据专家估计，学生平均在他们那里只待3年——尽管有时事实证明，对所有在外国城市中的外籍家庭的父母而言，好的国际学校有相当的吸引力，因此父母会继续选择国际学校。 普莱勒女士补充说： “平时，教师、管理人员，甚至是餐厅的工作人员，都会照看新来的和仍不合群的孩子。”这可能是他们最大的优势。

这些孩子往往出自在不同国家不断迁徙的家庭，有时会在多个不同国家的国际学校接受教育，他们甚至有自己的绰号，被称为“第三文化孩子”(TCK)。

“他们非常了解国际事务，当他们回到祖国，他们会碰到一点问题（许多人会这样），那是因为他们的想法要更多些，”普莱勒说。相比之下，没有同样经历的儿童可能会看起来很“土”。

安德鲁·菲茨莫里斯(Andrew Fitzmaurice)是教育集团Nord Anglia的首席执行官，他以一种可以理解的急切姿态强调接受国际教育的好处。“你给自己投资了一个社交和商业网络，”他说。“由于你上了国际学校，你就和50个不同国家的人交了朋友。”Nord Anglia在世界各地开办了9家“英国国际”学校。