Governance
The British School Algiers was created as a British international school by a Memorandum of Understanding between the Algerian and British governments signed on 9th March 2020. The Memorandum of Understanding was subsequently ratified by Algerian Presidential decree N° 20-262 on 15th September 2020. The School was opened by its Founder, Graham McAvoy, on 2nd November 2020.
The School is accredited as a British School Overseas (BSO) school by the United Kingdom Department for Education (DfE). The DfE’s inspectors periodically visit the school to ensure that the BSO’s standards are maintained. The responsibilities of the proprietor are defined in the DfE's BSO Standards. The proprietor of the school is its Founder, the owner of Eurl Alligan Algerie, an Algerian registered company and the legal entity of the British School Algiers.
The role of the Founder is to set the principles for the governance of the school through determining the character of the school, its ethos and values, its policies and its strategy. The role of the Headmaster, subject the school's governance principles, is to provide the operational management of the school. The Headmaster is responsible for determining the school's operating procedures. The Founder is responsible for ensuring that the school is managed in accordance with its governance principles. In doing so, the Founder takes advice from external sources.
The primary source of external advice comes from the DfE's BSO inspectors' triennial reports. Between these inspection visits, the Founder takes advice from one or more external experts whose roles are to review the operation of the school and to provide support to the school.
The Founder has established an Advisory Body which had its first meeting in March 2024. The Advisory Body acts as the critical friend to the Founder. The Founder appoints up to five members and chairs the meetings of the Advisory Body. The Headmaster may be invited by the Founder to provide reports and to attend meetings of the Advisory Body. The Advisory Body also receives the reports of the Parents' Forum, the Student Council and the Teachers’ Representative Group.
