Welcome to the Boarding Schools’ Association…for better boarding today
The Boarding Schools’ Association (BSA) represents member boarding schools, provides training for boarding staff and promotes boarding education.
Our member schools in 52 countries are listed here, and a prospective parent can browse for school websites of interest to them. However, the BSA does not operate an advisory service for parents seeking a boarding school. We believe finding the right school for the right child is hugely important. And we know that parents and students are the best people to make this decision. We therefore offer a list of questions which should help parents identify what is important to them and their child and define their areas of choice.
We hope you find our website interesting, informative and easy to use. If you do experience any problem, please let us know and we will endeavour to fix it quickly. This is a working website and we really appreciate your feedback.
Schools
Please check that your school’s entry in this website is accurate and up to date – has the Head changed? Have you moved to IB? Built a new boarding house? – and that any interesting current news has been included. Changes will need to be done via the Members’ Area. Don’t forget that you may post advertisements for vacancies on our job board.
Teachers and boarding staff
BSA delivers the world’s largest professional development programme for boarding staff. It offers:
- Two-year courses for graduate and non-graduate boarding staff
- A Diploma course for senior experienced boarding staff
- MA in residential education
- A broad range of day seminars and webinars
- Specialist conferences for all state and independent boarding roles
- A course for new and aspiring boarding Heads
- Certificates in Mental Health. Safeguarding, Inclusion, School Nurses, Coaching and Mentoring
- Basic training for those new to boarding.
And, if you are ambitious or thinking of moving on, don’t forget to check our job board if you wish to apply for a new position within a boarding school. Remember, evidence of having completed any or all of our training will be useful on the CV!
Parents
We are delighted to welcome prospective parents to our website. We hope you will find it a useful place to do your research about possible schools for your child. Member schools are listed here, please use our School Search facility to assist you in looking for the right school. You can then access the schools’ own websites, which will really give you the flavour of what each school has to offer.
Our advice to parents is more general about boarding than specific about individual schools. It is our remit to provide a showcase for the schools via which you can get to their own websites, to describe the advantages of boarding, to suggest useful questions to bear in mind when you begin your search.
If you are interested in finding out more about boarding in general, you may be interested in the BSA Guide to Boarding or the Service Parents’ Guide to Boarding published twice a year.
Robin Fletcher
Chief Executive, BSA and BSA Group
