Schools that investors build once and hold for decades.
International School Development and Management
Alasala University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
60
School projects
28
Countries
10
Year management agreements
GSE has delivered mandates for sovereign wealth funds, government entities, global education groups, international financial and professional services firms, property consultancies, private equity, real estate developers, private family offices, and established school groups. Client confidentiality is part of the mandate. References are available on request.
Advisory to opening day, then a decade of accountability.
Most advisors hand over a report and move on. GSE stays for the result. We advise on feasibility, deliver the school, then manage it under agreements that hold us accountable for academic and financial performance. Our clients include private investors, family offices, developers, and government-linked entities.
TEACHING AND LEARNING
A school holds its value when the teaching holds up
Every GSE project starts in the classroom. Each school we build carries its own identity, shaped by its owners, its families and its market. GSE supplies the standard underneath: leaders who are mentored in post, a curriculum that is tracked and reviewed, and teachers who are coached as well as appraised.
We measure a school by what its students go on to do, in their examinations, at university and in the communities they join.
Annual school reviews
Every school GSE manages is reviewed each year on its teaching, leadership and student outcomes, and an action plan follows. How a GSE review works →
Leaders coached in post
Heads and senior leaders are mentored by GSE’s academic team on pedagogy, inclusion and student engagement.
Humans in the AI loop
Teachers use AI openly to plan, adapt curriculum and communicate. People make the decisions, and safeguarding stays outside AI tools entirely.
What investors read before they call us.
01 Investment
What private equity sees in international schools, and what serious investors do differently.
Read the investment analysis
02 Development
Most new school projects fail financially. The causes are structural and avoidable.
See why projects fail
03 Governance
Governance frameworks that protect investor interests and drive school performance.
Explore the governance model
Led from the field, not the head office.
GSE was founded in 2011 by Greg Parry and Shanna Parry after years leading international schools themselves. Both remain directly involved in every project, from feasibility through to head of school appointments.
Our Story
Established in the region, not visiting it.
Discussing a school project?
Tell us where you are, from early feasibility to a school already operating. Conversations are confidential.
Investors and developers: how GSE works with investors →
Established schools planning an overseas campus: international expansion →
Owners of a school already operating: school management →
Greg Parry and Shanna Parry, Co-Founders