Colégio Friburgo

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: Early Years (ages 3-6). Early Years is the nursery stage, ages 3 to 6. There are no exams at the end: the stage describes what the youngest children are taught and how, and it follows the Cambridge frame rather than a national nursery programme.

Maple Bear Global Schools Ltd., a Canadian company founded in 2004, with its roots in North Vancouver. It works by franchise, and its partner site says this outright: an initial fee for the right to work under the brand, royalties on revenue, a fixed territory, an agreement of about 10 years. Those who run the schools the site calls the owners of the schools; Maple Bear gives the programme, teacher training and quality control, and does not own the schools. The numbers diverge: "more than 500 schools in 37 countries and more than 70,000 pupils" on some pages and "450+ schools in 35+ countries" on the partner site. The first school opened in Indirapuram near Delhi in 2005.

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.