The Association of British Schools Overseas (AoBSO)
The AoBSO is a not-for-profit membership association working in partnership with the UK Government Department for Education (DfE).
It openly lobbies on behalf of its member schools with policy makers around the world and promotes the BSO and the aims of the UK Government’s International Education Strategy in overseas markets.
The intention is to inform parents of pupils in British Schools Overseas how standards measure up against the standards that apply to independent schools in England.
An essential element of the BSO inspection is considering the extent to which the British character of the school is evident in its ethos, curriculum, teaching, care for pupils and pupils’ achievements. By achieving UK inspection-based approval, participating schools can demonstrate that they provide a British education that has similar characteristics to an education in an independent school in England.
