Roots School System Competitors

Roots International schools are labelled and founded by Mr. Walid Mushtaq who himself is a celebrated national educational icon and decorated educational counsellor, to help scale education, learning and teaching as per the aspiration of the 21st century child. As we reach 27 years of academic excellence – one quarter of a century, Roots International Schools today is synonymous with ‘academic excellence’, ‘student achievement’, ‘social entrepreneurship’, ‘opportunity’ and ‘discovery’ for students, parents, teachers and community. Students who study here are passionate about their subjects, qualifications and are dedicated to expanding their knowledge of the world around them. In the sphere of college education, Roots remains a place that dares to be a little different. It is our academic focus and personal attention to each and every student that makes us distinct.

The Beaconhouse group has almost 308,000 fulltime students in eight countries and is possibly the largest school network of its kind in the world. Established in November 1975 as the Les Anges Montessori Academy with 19 toddlers, Beaconhouse has since grown into an international network of private schools, imparting distinctive and meaningful learning to students all the way from birth – through its partnership in Pakistan with Gymboree Play & Music – to post-graduation, through Concordia Colleges and the Beaconhouse National University. Of these students, close to 101,000 study at the group’s flagship network, the Beaconhouse School System, in Pakistan as well as overseas, while the remaining are largely enrolled at The Educators, a parallel school network operated by the group. The Beaconhouse of today is thus much more than just a stand-alone school. Through distinct and independent divisions across multiple destinations including the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Oman, the UAE, Pakistan and Belgium, it caters to the education and training needs of a large and diverse group of individuals of varying ages, socioeconomic backgrounds, and nationalities, with its activities also extending beyond education in some countries.

Established in 1996, The International School opened for admission as the first school in Pakistan offering the educational programs of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). By October of the same year, the school was awarded authorization to offer the Middle Years Program (MYP). With this authorization, The International School became the third school in Asia offering this newly conceived innovative education system, which incorporates the latest trends and philosophies in education. Following the successful implementation of the MYP, the school attained authorization from the IB to offer its pre-university high school Diploma program in August 2001. Most recently we registered with Cambridge and Ed Excel boards (2004) to offer the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) program and were authorized for the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) in 2015. Then, TIS was a new day-coeducational-private school with no track record, tradition, or societal position trying to admit students of parents with lack of knowledge and understanding of the at offer educational programs of IB. In a land influenced by its British colonial past, the people of Pakistan opt for either the national Pakistani Matriculation system or the prevalent British GCE O-level and A-level system. Faced against many obstacles, the first challenge for the leadership was building the capacity of a locally hired staff and determining the suitability of local resources for administering the IB programs. The second challenge was the formation and “alignment of culture, structure and leadership to both produce and interrogate change” (Gunter, 2006, P151). In spite of the apparent dissatisfaction of the prevailing education systems as evident by own survey, the leadership had its third challenge in convincing parents on the academic benefits and future of the innovative education systems of the IBO which incorporates the latest trends and philosophies in education.