Many missionary parents are faced with difficult issues concerning their children's education. If these issues do not have an acceptable solution, their front-line service may be suspended, if not completely removed.

Because commitment to family should be our first priority, we must address the issue of providing a quality education for our children. For many years, the solutions to educational needs were limited to home education, national or international school, boarding school, or relocation - each of which carried its own costs, both emotional and physical.

Mobility and flexibility are key to successful missionary education. NorthStarUK is an ideal learning environment for mobile families, and offers the following advantages:

Moodle provides students and their families with a central, easy to access learning environment, enabling tutors to place lessons in online courses ready for the student to download at their convenience. Once uploaded, lessons remain on Moodle for the whole of the academic year, making it possible for the student to download lessons as many times as necessary, when accessing material from multiple computers.

Our web-based learning environment enables students to access lessons from any computer with internet access. No software needs to be installed and all web browsers are supported. Students can even use internet cafes! This means flexibility and mobility since families do not need to take their home computer with them, when travelling, in order to access NorthStarUK.

NorthStarUK exists to form partnerships with missionary families and mission agencies to ensure that there is an alternative solution to conventional schooling or lone home education. Our solution allows the family to remain on the front-line and be highly involved in their children's education.

The introduction of IGCSEs takes this flexibility one step further, since students will now be able to take examinations without the need to return to the UK.