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Featured Site: Designed and managed by ISW: International School of Tanganyika.
International schools are increasingly using their websites as showcases for potential teaching candidates. A website can show employment opportunities to a world-wide audience and can be updated as positions become available or others are filled. A well designed and up-to-date website can also provide much needed insight into how the school operates. Candidates can be directed to your website from advertisements, teacher placement organisations websites or search engines as a teacher tries to search for schools in a geographical area. Research (Freeman, 2006) has shown that good or better websites attract better candidates.
Is your international school website up to the job? What do potential candidates want to see? ...read more about recruitment
Regardless of whether your school's website is intended to be a basic prospectus or a more comprehensive and complex site there are some basics that need to be right. A good website should be:
Increasingly we have come to understand the importance of the web as a marketing tool and a means of communicating with current and prospective parents, students and faculty. Expectations are higher than ever and yet many websites are out of date or inaccessible. Sometimes the very success of a site causes problems as more and more pages are added straining the underlying technology and taking up more and more staff time. A poorly designed, hard to find website could be sending the wrong message to potential teachers, students and their parents.
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We are qualified and experienced in the fields of International Education and design and can offer a range of services tailored to your individual needs. We can act as consultants looking at your existing website and making suggestions for improvements you can make or we can do it for you. We can design a new accessible website and implement that design. A high quality website that is designed to meet your needs may ultimately be a flexible and cost effective solution. We can take care of hosting and managing your website ensuring that it is always available and up to date. We can do the work or we can give you tools to do it yourself. Whatever your needs please take some time to look at this website for ideas and then contact us.
Freeman, R. 2006. It's Not A Waste of Cyber Space: School Web Sites and Teacher Employment. Newslinks Fall 2006. ISS Princeton NJ
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