We have always promoted a holistic approach to school choice. We firmly believe parents need to collect information from a wide variety of reliable professional, governmental and personal sources. We encourage parents to research fellow parents’ reviews, governmental reports, official league tables, school marketing information and then, combined with the views of professional educational consultants, make an informed decision.
The Independent Schools Directory (independentschools.com) is the global independent schools directory, and with 36,000+ individual school listings the ISD is the most comprehensive independent education directory in the world. The ISD has recently made Alexa's top 200K site making it the most viewed Independent Education website online.
The uk network sites include: Privateschools.co.uk, Boardingschools.co.uk, Publicschools.co.uk and Prepschools.co.uk.
Independentschools.com was created by Peter Riding and Frank Tiarks.
Peter Riding
Peter was joint founder and first project director of the BBC Networking Club, which evolved into the current BBC website. Previously he was an Executive Producer at the BBC, where he developed numerous pioneering series including The Net, the first regular British television series about the Internet, and a weekly Radio 5 series The Big Byte. As Director of Webserve for the past twelve years, Peter created CancerHelpUK for the University of Birmingham, a major site which has since been adopted by the Cancer Research Campaign.
Frank Tiarks
Frank is MD of Dotnology Limited, the web development company behind Independentschools.com and Emetis. Frank has been working with independent education online since 1996 when he was first hired as an online marketing consultant by a Scottish private school.. Since 1996 Frank has worked continuously with independent education online specialising in content development, informatics and online marketing strategies. Frank also co-founded the Carbon Monoxide Kills Campaign in 1999.
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