IE PARTNERS (AM)

International Education Partners (AM) is a fully-owned subsidiary company of International Education Partners (UK), based in Windsor, UK (IE Partners Ltd). It was established in the autumn of 2009 with the objective of developing Armenian capacity to provide high level educational consultancy, research and training services up to international standards based on the well-established skills, knowledge and reputation of the parent company.

The Directors and staff of IE Partners have had a long and successful working relationship with education reform in Armenia dating back to January 1994 when Tony Read and Amanda Buchan started work with the Ministry of Education and the World Bank on the planning, design and implementation of the national Textbook Rental Scheme and Revolving Fund, which still operates very successfully in 2009 as the basis for the full provision of textbooks to all students in all grades. Tony Read was the lead technical facilitator in the development of the National Curriculum Framework and the individual subject syllabuses for primary and secondary schools. Amanda Buchan worked with the Ministry of Education on the development of the library components of the second stage of the Educational Quality and Relevance Project (EQRP) and Nick Read has worked intensively during 2009 on the development and launch of the Armenian language version of e-VOLUTION, the interactive ICT training web portal for teachers.

IE Partners specialises in education. It is widely regarded as a leading authority on all aspects of learning materials policy, strategy, financing and provision including both print and digital materials. It also has a long and distinguished track record in curriculum and syllabus development (it has recently been contracted to advise the Egyptian Ministry of Education on its new lower secondary curriculum), ICT in education, school library development, teacher training, literacy and numeracy, language of instruction policy and Sector Wide Approaches in the education sector among other specialities (see Skills for more details). IE Partners is regularly commissioned by leading donors and governments to undertake major research studies (link to Training, Research and Consultancy on Armenian website). Full details of IE Partners work portfolio and project profiles elsewhere in the world can be accessed via countries. Outside Armenia IE Partners has worked on recent education projects in Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Georgia, Ukraine, Albania, Jordan, Muscat and Oman, Egypt in addition to numerous projects in Africa and other parts of the world.