Nicholas Dwyer

Director, Haileybury International School Tianjin

Nicholas is the Founding Principal of Haileybury International School Tianjin, a private boarding school for Chinese students seeking pathways to university overseas. The school was established in 2013 as a joint venture controlled by Haileybury Melbourne, and is the first of its kind in China.

Nicholas was also Vice-Principal (International) of Haileybury College, an independent school of 3,600 students across four campuses in Melbourne.

He is a graduate of the ANU (Law and Economics) and earned his doctorate of Education from Melbourne University in the field of organizational learning and international education. He worked for some years with the Banque Nationale de Paris before moving into teaching, where he held teaching and management positions at Marlborough College (UK), Canberra Grammar School and Caulfield Grammar (Melbourne).

A particular aim has been to foster internationalism in education.He was involved in developing an innovative residential program for Caulfield Grammar students in Nanjing in 1997, as an early joint project with a local high school.

At Haileybury he has established an international presence for the school, with professional and operational links to schools in a range of countries. Over the last fifteen years Nicholas developed Australia’s first TNE school program in China.Working with a group of ten partner schools in China, the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority and Chinese provincial education departments, Haileybury now trains Chinese teachers and offers the VCE to more than five hundred Chinese students as a pathway to universities in Australia and overseas.

In 2013, he established the VCE as a pro bono project in Timor Leste.

Nicholas currently lives in Beijing.

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