Risk intelligence for school trips
Tier 1 Organizational Readiness
The Travel Program Review looks at a school’s travel program as a whole: its own policies and procedures, program path by program path, and the documents of every provider it currently uses. ETI360 evaluates both against the ETI360 Operational Capability Framework and writes one report for the school’s leadership, once every four years.
The report opens with where the program stands across the ten areas of the ETI360 Operational Capability Framework, then sets out each area, each program path, and each provider. Every evidence line names the document, section, and page it comes from, and the report comes in US Letter and A4.
Harborview International School · Singapore
A sample review for a fictional international school: its travel program read path by path, with every finding traced to the document, section, and page it comes from.
Harborview International School is a fictional school; its location is shown for illustrative purposes.
Providers. In a school’s report, a provider section follows: each provider the school uses, in turn, with what its documents cover in each area and the evidence behind each finding. The evaluation below is that section for one provider, shown on its own and naming no school. ETI360 shows what each provider’s documents cover; it does not certify, approve, rank, or recommend a provider. Decisions about each provider stay with the school.
Line & Landmark Cycle Travel · Loire Valley, France
A sample provider evaluation for a fictional cycling-tour provider: its three documents read against the ten areas of the ETI360 Operational Capability Framework, each area with its own state and each line cited to its document and section.
Line & Landmark is a fictional trip provider created by ETI360 for demonstration purposes.
The review reads the school’s own travel policies and procedures one program path at a time, wherever the school runs them:
Each path is read from its own documents, because each kind of trip usually has its own policy, handbook, or procedure. A path the school runs without a written procedure still appears in the report, so leadership sees the whole program.
The review also evaluates the documents of every provider the school currently uses, against the same framework: the policies, procedures, and supporting documents each provider shares with the school. For each provider, the report shows what its documents cover, area by area, in the same terms as the school’s own.
The school sends what it has, by email.
The ETI360 Operational Capability Framework was aligned on a number of international standards. It sits beside the school’s own policies, its accreditor’s standards, its insurer’s requirements, the rules of the country it operates in, and, for travel abroad, government travel advisories, without replacing them.
The school and any provider it works with retain responsibility for decisions and approvals. ETI360 evaluates documents and shows what they cover; it never certifies, approves, ranks, or recommends a provider.
ETI360 was founded by Dan Skimin and Seb Wong. Dan Skimin, Principal Consultant, spent 16 years as an international school athletics director and trip coordinator, coordinating 600 programs for 12,000 students. Seb Wong, Senior Consultant, is part of every engagement.
