Purpose & Organisation

HMC (Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference) Projects in Central and Eastern Europe has two purposes - to enable students from the ex-communist bloc to spend a Lower Sixth year in good independent schools and to provide similar opportunities to young teachers from these countries to spend a year in a British school. What began as individual initiatives in various schools came together in the early 1990s as a properly organised charitable enterprise. This will be the fifteenth year of the scheme for students and the eleventh for teachers. Since 1992, over 900 students and over 250 teachers have come to British independent schools.