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Defining Responsibilty
To succeed, all roles within your school’s organisation will need to be itemised, expanded and defined.

Your school will require:

• A policy document and charter of formal procedures
• Reporting systems for students
• Audit controls for financial administration
• Job details and written descriptions
• Specific commitments within written contracts.

UDEF offers you:

• Guidelines, standards and good practice documentation
• Policy planning assistance
• Entry procedures and admission policy standards
• School marketing and awareness programmes
• Administrative job descriptions and job function planning
• Practical administrative and management advice
• Legal statutes and formal contracts for all school personnel
• Courses for Board, Administrative and support personnel
• Review structures
• Consultancy services.
  
  

Staffing the school
The recruitment of talented, innovative and highly capable teachers is imperative to your school’s success. After recruitment, a staff preparation, welcome and expectation-orientation programme is essential to prepare staff to work professionally in their new surroundings.

However, the careful repatriation of departing teachers is equally as important as successfully accommodating new staff. In an atmosphere of unity, close co-operation and respect, daily practices should be clearly identified, thoroughly explained, critically examined, inspected for fairness and in laid down in writing.

As your school progresses and develops, you will have to establish:

• Clear recruitment policies
• Definitive and practical guidelines
• Working agreements in writing, with contracts that are personally signed
• A handbook itemising your school’s procedure for departing staff

UDEF can provide:

• Written practical documentation and procedural policy
• Knowledge of and practice with international recruitment
• The sourcing and supply of internationally experienced educators
• Assistance with staff, senior personnel and executive management recruitment

Over time, there will be a need to develop staff, provide ongoing supervision, renew and terminate contracts and provide formal evaluations.

To help you with these tasks, UDEF can provide:

• Detailed job assessments and itemised job descriptions
• Practical appraisal and review procedures
• Professional in-service training & assessment programmes
• Consultancy services and formal review procedures

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Curriculum
Ultimately, it is the curriculum that will define the standard of your school’s success and the quality of its long-term achievement.

Your curriculum must:

• Deliver to universally recognisable and globally acceptable standards
• Translate instantly and easily into clearly defined classroom methodology
• Promote and facilitate learning through research and understanding
• Inspire students through personal challenge and desire

UDEF provides:

• First hand knowledge of globally successful curricula
• Structure and implementation expertise
• Onsite assistance with curriculum design, implementation and development
• Practical guidance with curriculum documentation
• Formally drafted documentation and curriculum modelling
• A reporting structure for parents that provides a detailed assessment
  of each child’s personal progress

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School facilities
Your school facilities will require careful and considered planning built on solid practicalities.

There are many things to consider including:

• Materials, aspect, layout and facilities
• Immediate availability requirements and longer term expansion
• The procedure of planning permission and consent
• Estimating procedures & project evaluation methodologies
• The drawing up of contracts & itemising obligations in writing
• Project management
• Detail briefings and regular progress reviews

UDEF offers:

• Written practical documentation and procedural policy
• Working knowledge of building requirements and planning procedures
• Consultancy on construction procedures

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Library & Media Resource Centre
The library and media resource centre are your school’s pathway to the future. They provide core learning, new knowledge, enhanced skills and heightened awareness of all that the world is and what
it has to offer.

To be effective, your school will need:

• A clear policy on what your library is and what it should be
• In-depth detail on how it is to be funded and used
• Insight on how it can be used to help your school to achieve its goals
• A programme for teaching library skills to school personnel
• A full commitment to the latest and newest advances Information Technology (IT)
• Access to IT and media resources within the library complex
• A continuous programme of refreshment and revitalisation
• Access to and knowledge of what is current
• A policy to deal with content deemed unacceptable and/or undesirable
• Strong links with reliable suppliers

UDEF can provide:

• Guidelines, standards and good practice documentation
• Methodology for dealing with unacceptable and undesirable material
• Detailed knowledge of reliable global suppliers
• Strategy and implementation advice & consultancy
• Financial planning and long-term policy provision
• Keeping current and best practice guidelines
• Tracking methodologies and effective ordering procedures

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Financial management
Good schools deliver; bad schools simply fail, fold and fade away. It is very much a matter of good housekeeping and consistently achieving results set against increasingly demanding standards.

Your school will need to:

• Manage its finances with business-like efficiency
• Itemise annual budgets & set forecasts of achievement
• Measure its success set against realistic deliverables
• Establish working profitability over the longer term
• Create a realistically achievable development and expansion programme

UDEF can provide:

• Assistance with planning and itemising financial objectives
• Written practical documentation and procedural policy to ensure effective financial management
• Consultation and review procedures
• Onsite assistance with formal documentation and working practicalities

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School Evaluation & Accreditation
Accreditation and Evaluation steer your school toward achieving the long-term goal of continuous improvement and it is vital to keep standards high and make the school the object of desire for parents considering their children’s education.

That means recognising the importance of:

• Your school's ethos and the ambience and well-being it has created
• School standards that everyone respects, accepts and shares
• Objective interpretation and a policy of continuous review
• Assessments by outside agencies, statutory bodies & professional agencies
• A culture of improvement fed by demand and expectation

UDEF provide:

• Guidelines, standards and good practice documentation
• Accreditation policy, procedure and documentation
• Onsite programmes to prepare for and successfully secure international accreditation
• Formal review policies, practices and procedure

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Marketing
To maintain financial stability and fund future expansion, you will need to regularly promote your
school to the local and international community. Intake numbers will largely determine what is possible, probable and practical for you and optimising enrolment is essential to your school’s progress and
long-term survival.

Your school will need to create:

• A clearly defined, imaginative and inventive marketing strategy
• Marketing materials that speak of your school’s quality, direction and unswerving commitment
  to provide outstanding education for every student

UDEF can provide you with:

• Highly effective marketing strategies
• First class design and cost-effective marketing products
• Leaflets, brochures, adverts, flyers, folders and websites
• Knowledgeable consultancy based on global success
• Onsite consultancy programmes

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Catering for wider considerations
A successful school is a microcosm of life and, like life itself, a school demands the fullest consideration of aspects that can easily be overlooked, or simply forgotten, such as:

• Guidelines, standards and good practice documentation to develop campus harmony
• Written rules to govern student commitment, health and hygiene
• Documented expectations for both students and parents
• Acceptable behaviour and written conduct codes
• After school and extra-curricular activity advice
• Assistance with detailed record keeping and archiving

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The ultimate achievement
Great schools aren’t born, but they are created. They are fashioned from the skills, disciplines, knowledge, awareness and inventive originality of senior management and the total buy-in of all staff,
at every level. If the platform is sound and the framework level, then sustained success, with the highest standard of continuous achievement, is the inevitable result.

In education, success is never an accident. It is the result of the collective industry and sheer hard work of leaders who have the vision to inspire every person within the organisation – the staff and students, parents and community, Governors and administrators – to embrace the school’s philosophy, work with its beliefs and create a future that matters for everyone involved.

UDEF has the skills, knowledge and know-how that can help you to make this happen.

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