Colégio Objetivo Camboinhas

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. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.

The school part of the Brazilian group Grupo UNIP-Objetivo, founded by Professor João Carlos Di Genio; the website prints neither a legal name nor a CNPJ, the owner of its own schools is named as Centro Educacional Objetivo, and the legal notice ties the brand to the Sistema de Ensino Objetivo and to Universidade Paulista - UNIP. There is no year of foundation as a figure: the anniversary pages speak of 60 years, and the first mark on the timeline is 1965-1966. Its own core is 17 colleges and 9 university preparation courses in São Paulo and its suburbs, in Ribeirão Preto and Mogi das Cruzes. Separately the network sells its teaching system to outside schools: the "Seja uma Escola Conveniada" section describes a contract for a year with automatic renewal, implementation, textbooks, a portal and marketing support, calls such schools parceira and conveniada, and does not use the word "franchise"; it publishes no number of conveniadas. Its own schools cannot be told from a conveniada by the website: the "Unidades do Objetivo" page lays out 100 cards with no total and no pagination, and mixed in among the Objetivo colleges stand schools under their own names and holders of a CNPJ from other states, each with a page of the same kind as that of an own school. The network gives no combined number of schools. There is no accreditation of its own; in its place the website shows admissions to USP, UNICAMP and UNESP and results in olympiads.

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.