In 1924 The International School of Geneva was founded to cater for the families of the diplomats and officials working in the headquarters of the League of Nations. Since then, and with much greater speed since 1947, schools have been set up in many of the famous towns and cities throughout the world for the children of parents who, for one reason or another, spend some part of their working lives in foreign countries. The children who attend these schools come from very varied backgrounds, tend to move even during the later years of their schooling and have an almost undefined variety of plans for their future education or professional training.