Christliche Deutsche Schule Chiang Mai

A German federal agency. It recognises a school as a German school abroad, funds it and grants the right to award the German leaving certificate. Quality is examined by a state inspection about once every six years, and schools that pass receive the mark of an excellent German school abroad.

What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.

The German school programme. Recognised German schools abroad award the Deutsches Internationales Abitur, the German leaving certificate used for entry to universities in Germany. Behind the recognition stands the federal agency ZfA.

What this means for this school. ZfA recognition comes at levels: a school that takes pupils through to the German leaving certificate is one thing, a school with the DSD language diploma, where German is taught as a subject, is another. Which level this school holds is not stated here.

Its own site is cct.or.th, in Thai. From those of its pages that opened, the church is built out of 25 districts (คริสตจักรภาค 1 to 25) and includes some twenty departments and ministries, among them the department of the education mission (สำนักงานพันธกิจการศึกษา) and the department of the medical mission; the serving leadership is listed for 2023-2026, and offices are named in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. No year of foundation is reported by any of the pages that opened. The pages of the site given to individual institutions did not open for us: they are served only over http and loop the redirect, so we could not confirm the list of the church's schools from its own site - neither Chiang Mai International School nor Christliche Deutsche Schule Chiang Mai is named on the pages available. The nature of the church's tie to the schools - ownership, founding or patronage - accordingly cannot be established from the site.

What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.

A German Protestant mission with its own site, marburger-mission.org, founded in 1909; from 1 January 2003 Marburger Mission GmbH was turned into Stiftung Marburger Mission, that is, it works as a foundation. The headquarters is given in Marburg. The site names as its main occupations the founding and strengthening of congregations, theological education, diaconal evangelism and transcultural links; it says that the mission works in nine countries on four continents, while the lists of countries on two of its pages do not match - the "Who we are" section mentions China (1909-1951), Brazil from 1932, Japan from 1951, Taiwan from 1952, Thailand from 1953, and also Uganda, Spain and Kenya with Tanzania, whereas the page of countries and projects lists Brazil, Germany, Japan, Cambodia, Peru, Russia, Spain, Taiwan and Thailand. In the Thai part of the site three projects are named plainly: a hostel for children of the Eastern Lawa, the German-speaking Thai-German congregation of Chiang Mai and Christliche Deutsche Schule Chiang Mai (CDSC). The staff of the mission in Chiang Mai are listed with their roles, including the school board and school social work. Nowhere does the site call itself a co-founder or an owner of the school; the school appears on it as one of the strands of its work.

What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.