Meet our staff
Learn more about our dedicated team at ISA by clicking on the biographies below.
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Nick Little
Head of School
Nick grew up in Brighton on the south coast of England, and then read history at Pembroke College, Oxford. He then completed a postgraduate degree in law at Sussex before a gap year teaching English language and culture in China changed the course of his life. Not only did it become the first year of a new career, but he got married as well.
Some 30 years later, Nick has three bi-cultural children, with strong connections to the UK and China. After his formal teacher training, he taught in a comprehensive school in Lancashire. When his eldest turned seven, the Little family took the big step of returning to China – and what was intended to be just two years teaching in an international school near Shanghai became 16, and Nick ended up running it!
He joined as ISA’s head in August 2018, the year his youngest child started university in the UK.
Andrea Taylor
Head of Preschool
Andrea started her career at ISA on a student work placement in 1990, before being offered a role as an early years practitioner in our kindergarten in August that year. She studied nursery nursing at Aberdeen Technical College and graduated with a BA in Childhood Practice at the University of Aberdeen, where she also gained a post-graduate certificate in early years education. Andrea joined the ISA Preschool in 2010.
She has two grown-up children.