His career in international education has taken him from his native Scotland to China, stopping off at St Helena, Spain, Indonesia and Oman en route. And after a decade at the helm of Dipont Education’s education development, John Birchall is happy to see where life’s journey takes him next.

Highly regarded international educator Peter Derby-Crook MBE has joined Dipont Education as its new director of education. He will take over the role from John Birchall who will be stepping sideways to focus on a number of key projects for Dipont in the next year.

Every year, we recruit hundreds of international teachers to teach on our international high school programs, which offer A-level, Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs to Chinese high school students. But what is it actually like teaching Chinese students in China? We give you the low-down. What is the traditional

A celebration was held on Saturday 22 June 2019 to mark the completion of vertical construction on Dipont Education’s new K-12 school in Kunshan, China. The ‘topping out’ ceremony was held at the school construction site in the Kunshan Economic and Technological Development Zone. It was attended by representatives of

Dipont Education has recruited a head of school to lead and manage the development of its latest K-12 campus development in Kunshan, China. US citizen Carol Santos has been appointed to the school, which will open in 2020 and follow an American and bilingual Chinese curriculum. At capacity the school,

Rosalina Menton has taught English language and literature in our international center at Hangzhou Foreign Language School since 2016. In 2017, she won the Dipont Education ‘teacher of the year award’, an annual award. Here she writes about her experiences of teaching in China. “Having come from a successful media

Explore CRS, a subsidiary company of Dipont Education, is supporting this year’s IPSEF Asia conference, taking place in Shanghai on 7-9 May 2019. Book through us Standard conference rates are 895 GBP per person or 595 GBP per person for three bookings or more. Book your place through us, however,

Are you a curious and adventurous educator with a love for travel? Do you have a desire to experience life in a very different culture while still maintaining and developing your career? If so, you should consider taking the opportunity to teach in China. Leaving your home country, your family

Vanessa Cumbers, Recruitment Director at Dipont Education, spoke to International School Leader Magazine about the opening of our two independent schools in China: “Dipont Education opened two new schools in September 2018 that were set up in a unique partnership model with local government, two highly regarded Chinese schools (Nanjing