Ireland
Dublin
Southside day houses and a boarding option in the hills. Ask how Irish the yard is, even when the classroom is English.
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Dublin schools, the southside and a hill that still boards
Dublin is not one fee-paying campus. It is a Booterstown day house that still offers two leaving papers, and a hill in Whitechurch where most of the children sleep. Ask which Sunday you are buying, and how Irish the yard is after lunch.
15 minIB, A-Levels, Bac, Abitur: a friendly decoder
The letters on the leaver’s certificate matter. They are not the whole child. Here is how to tell them apart without a headache, and without pretending every door stays open.
16 minHow to choose a school without losing the plot
You do not need a perfect algorithm. You need a few true things about your child, a boring list on the fridge, and the courage to ignore a beautiful campus that does not fit.
15 minHow to read a European school fee PDF without being sold
Tuition is the number on the homepage. The PDF is the number that arrives in March. Here is how to read the second one, without inventing a euro, a krona, or a deadline.