Baines Cutler delivers specialist consultancy for British curriculum and international independent schools worldwide to solve people, performance and financial challenges.
We provide strategic consultancy that brings deep expertise in teacher pay and reward, appraisal reviews, professional frameworks, timetable and contact-time models, recruitment and retention, and stakeholder insight. We focus on practical benchmarking that matters internationally: teaching time, staffing ratios, curriculum models, appraisal consistency and culture, so leadership teams can make confident, evidence‑led decisions based on clear recommendations that shape sustainable growth, financial resilience and academic excellence.
Our Expertise in British Curriculum Consultancy
Running an international school demands clarity across people, performance and culture, often in complex, fast moving markets. Baines Cutler brings:
• Specialist expertise across appraisal, teacher pay, workload and parental affordability for British and IB contexts.
• Evidence led benchmarking on what improves outcomes internationally: contact time, staffing ratios, curriculum breadth, appraisal consistency, CPD time, career pathways and staff retention.
• Practical implementation: policies, communications, training and governance - so change sticks beyond the strategy paper.
• We follow schools’ guidance and work in line with resident employment legislation, but our methodology is fully transferable. This means our approach can be applied consistently in any country, allowing us to support schools worldwide.
Where We Work
We support British international schools worldwide. Delivery options include on‑site visits, hybrid programmes and fully remote engagements across time zones including (but not limited to):
To discuss how Baines Cutler can support your British curriculum or international independent school, please speak our consultancy team.
Whilst we do not yet hold international benchmarking data, this area is currently in development. However, our expertise and experience across over 250 very different schools across the UK and the globe, enables us to conduct consultancy in line with every country’s legal obligations.
Our experience has made clear to us that whilst certain principles might guide the framing of a pay structure in any school, there are intricacies in the design for each school which must reflect the uniqueness of every client’s offering. Indeed, no two systems we have guided have ever been the same.
The expertise and experience we have gained over 16 years inform pay structure shapes, expectations and teacher support, which form the bespoke principles for futuristic pay systems. The benchmarking simply informs the salary levels on the new shape of the system.
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