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Teaching yourself Dutch: Fast & Easy

Is it possible, using online tools, to learn a language without entering a classroom? Learn more about teaching yourself Dutch easily.

We’re all history

History is just history, right? It’s just a list of things that happened, surely? We all remember history lessons from school–learning the kings and queens, the revolutions, the presidents, the battles and the treaty dates. But has the way history been taught in schools changed?...

Learning in 5D: Forest School at the British School

The ‘Forest School’ concept incorporates this philosophy in student’s learning. At the British School in The Netherlands (BSN) teachers practise this new learning approach in the junior schools. Because young children are inherently curious and nature offers the best possible classroom, this is a golden...

Virtual Commuting... from the desk of our Director

Virtual commuting - sounds odd, doesn't it. Those two words, in one phrase. And yet, is it? One thing is becoming clearer for us all - regardless of where we are from, where we live.  Regardless of relocation, expatriation or not. There will be no...

Towards a greener orange 

      While the Netherlands is home to many innovations in sustainability, which make great headlines nationally and internationally, can their incremental effect bring about a real transition? The Netherlands has more bikes than people, and the wide flat countryside is crisscrossed by a...