ISC Objectives
The aim of ISC is to be a service organisation promoting and protecting the independent education sector
ISC has five principal activities:
- Provide authoritative research and intelligence about the sector
- Provide legal and regulatory information/guidance
- Provide online access and support informing parental decisions
- Promote the sector through lobbying and communications
- Provide a meeting place in central London for members
ISC promotes the independent school sector through Campaigns
Our priorities include the following activities
- To represent the views of our member associations in the National education debate
- To champion and channel sector consensus on public examinations and national curriculum frameworks
- To protect and promote the sector’s interests on charitable status, public benefit and social mobility
- To promote the sector’s view on a proportionate regulatory and inspection regime
- To promote the sector’s view on the proper regulatory framework for all aspects of safeguarding
- To protect and promote the sector’s interests in recruiting overseas pupils
- To support schools offering early years education
- To carry out annual data gathering and analysis on the sector via the Census
- To analyse the sector’s performance in national exams and university offers and admissions
- To carry out surveys on attitudes towards the sector and financial benchmarking
- To provide support for our expert groups
- To promote and coordinate the views of the sector, the associations and their members through the media
- To ensure consistent media responses across the sector
- To provide a high quality daily news service to all schools
- To support the marketing and promotion of schools, including user friendly access to information about schools
- To promote and catalogue independent-state school partnerships and provide an analysis of what works best
- To detail training opportunities for unqualified teachers in ISC schools
- To encourage good graduates to work in independent schools
- To counter misconceptions about independent schools
- To provide guidance and support for members and schools on all of the above
ISC supports independent schools offering early years education