Crescent International School

It gives a school approved centre status: that means Pearson exams can be sat in the school itself. What is checked is the premises, the equipment, the secure storage of papers and the presence of trained invigilators.

What the badge means for this school. The school can run Pearson exams on its own premises. The status says nothing about teaching, about results or about the school itself: any school able to run an exam securely holds it. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which Pearson qualifications this school is approved for is not stated here.

The foundation has no site of its own; this note is written from its section on the site of its school, cis.ac.th, and that is a caveat about the source. The foundation was set up in 2011 and is described as "a fully licensed charitable foundation (Registration No: Go.Tho. 2111)" and as "the umbrella organization supporting Crescent International School", working on a non-profit basis. The stated aim is to give children in Thailand access to education regardless of culture, nationality and religion, including those for whom good education would otherwise be beyond their means. The foundation gives out scholarships and partial financial help to families, supports several orphaned children and takes part in community initiatives - help for the blind and for care homes, disaster relief; all profit, by the text, returns to the school. Crescent International School itself, by the same section, was founded in 2008 by a group of philanthropists, among whom politicians, diplomats and representatives of the local business community are named. The section names no other schools of the foundation, and whether it owns the school or only supports it does not follow from the text.

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.