Colegio El Torreón

Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.

What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.

An Argentine non-profit association founded in 1970. Its own website calls it an "asociación sin fines de lucro" with a "Consejo de Dirección General", an executive body of five central directors, including a director of education and a director of economy and finance. The website gives no expansion of the abbreviation. It holds 21 educational institutions in seven cities of Argentina: Buenos Aires, Pilar, Córdoba, Mendoza, Rosario, Tucumán and La Plata. The arrangement in each city is the same: a school for girls, a school for boys and a kindergarten, that is, teaching is single-sex. The websites of all the schools are subdomains of apdes.edu.ar, and the website uses no words about associated or joined schools: the schools say of themselves "somos parte de Apdes". The association is Catholic and names the source directly: "Nuestros colegios son impulsados por las enseñanzas de San Josemaría, fundador del Opus Dei". The list of schools by city is open in the "Nosotros" section. The network declares no accreditation of its schools of its own.

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.