Chapter 1: A Projected Decade of Unprecedented Growth

It would be wise at the outset to make it clear what field of education is about to be explored. This book is concerned with a sub-area of ‘International Education’, perhaps best described as ‘International Schooling’ (Bunnell, 2014). This immediately de-couples it from any discussions about Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The internationalisation of universities is a discreet educational phenomenon, and is a discipline worthy of its own study, as is the interlinked growth of ‘Global Citizenship Education’ (Palmer, 2018).

Moreover, this book is primarily concerned with the current, and substantial projected growth, of an overlooked body of educational institutions that might best be described as schools with a global outlook located mainly outside an English-speaking country delivering a non-national curriculum at least partly in English.