About
How we work with schools
What a school can and cannot buy from The Bridge, written down so that everyone – schools, families and our own writers – can hold us to it.
Placement in our guide is not for sale. Every school in this guide has a profile here whether it works with us or not, and no payment changes what we write, where a school appears in a comparison, or how a fee is described. Schools can buy a profile they help us fill in, sponsorship of an issue, a clearly labelled piece of their own, and a place in our newsletter. That is the whole list.
The rules
What is never for sale
- Position in our guide, in any comparison table, or in any list.
- The removal or softening of a fact – including a fee, a limit on support, or a claim we have not been able to verify.
- Approval over anything a student writes. Student journalism on this site is never shown to a school before publication.
What a school can buy
- An extended profile, annually. Photographs, video, programme detail, an events calendar and a direct line to the admissions office, on the school's own page.
- Sponsorship of an issue of the magazine – one school per issue.
- A labelled piece of its own. Marked "Material from [school]" at the top, edited by us for clarity and length, never presented as editorial.
- A place in the newsletter.
Every school has a page
A guide that leaves schools out is not a guide, it is a storefront. So every school within the guide's scope has a profile here, built from public sources, whether or not it has ever spoken to us; the list of schools names the ones we know of and have not profiled yet. A school that works with us gets a fuller page – more detail, its own photographs, its events – but not a better position and not a kinder description.
Where our facts come from
From what schools publish on their own sites, and from public registers. Where we quote a figure or a policy we link the page we took it from and give the date we read it. Where a school does not publish something, we write "not published" rather than estimating.
Where a page carries open questions, they are things a school's own site does not answer. We will put them to the school in writing; we have not sent them yet. When a school answers, its answer will appear on its own page, in its own words, with the date we asked.
Where a school states something and we have not checked it against the relevant register, we label it not checked – an unchecked box, not a doubt. Where we have searched a register and not found something, we say that instead, with the date. Those are different claims.
We do not convert currencies and present the result as a published fee. Most of the wrong numbers circulating about Belgrade schools started life as somebody's conversion.
Corrections
If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us. We will fix it and note when we did. That applies to schools that work with us and schools that do not, in exactly the same way.
Linking to your page
Any school, kindergarten or club we write about may say so and link to the page about it. How to find your page, how to correct it and the free badge for linking to it are all on one page: Your page in The Bridge. Linking is never a condition of anything and changes nothing in what we write.
Who writes this
The Bridge is written and edited by Eva, a student at an international school in Belgrade. Being inside these schools is our one real advantage over every directory that covers this city from a distance – and it only works if what we publish is trusted. These rules exist to protect that, not as decoration.