Doan Thi Diem High School

An American organisation that allows a school to put the letters AP on a pupil's transcript. The permission is granted course by course and tied to a particular teacher, it has to be renewed every year, and College Board reads the course syllabus before granting it.

What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run advanced AP courses - not the school as a whole, but one by one: by subject and by teacher. Governance, safeguarding and the primary years are not part of that check. Which subjects are actually approved is visible in the ledger. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.

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.

Advanced Placement: American advanced courses for the senior years. The exam for a course is set and marked by the College Board, not by the school. A good result is counted by American universities as a first-year course already passed, which saves a student time and money.

What this means for this school. A school does not get to call a course AP automatically: the College Board reads the course syllabus and approves it separately for every subject and every teacher, and the permission has to be renewed each year. Every approved school in the world is listed in the open AP Course Ledger, and this school's entry there stands as a line in the accreditation block above. How many courses a school is approved for, and in which subjects, the ledger does not show in its general listing. AP has no leaving certificate of its own: it sits on top of the school's main programme rather than being a separate system.

Hệ thống giáo dục Đoàn Thị Điểm is a group of schools under one brand rather than an operator with a legal entity of its own: the system has no site of its own, ownership, management and franchise are nowhere separated, and no owning company is named. The section about the system lists eight sites. Primary level: the schools on Tran Van Can and Nguyen Dinh Tu streets in Hanoi and Đoàn Thị Điểm Symphony in the An Lac Green Symphony residential district. Secondary level: the schools on Luu Huu Phuoc and Nguyen Dinh Tu streets and Symphony. Upper secondary level: the school on Nguyen Dinh Tu street. An all-through school in Ha Long is listed separately. At the same time the site of the secondary level describes Trường Phổ thông Đoàn Thị Điểm as a single school of three levels and names only two sites of its own; we give both counts. The year the system was founded is not given. The upper secondary school was created by a decision of 20 May 2008 as a continuation of the primary and secondary schools, and in 2013 it was recognised as a school of the national standard. Teaching is Vietnamese, and the upper secondary school has classes with intensive English, with mathematics, an international class, Chinese, Japanese and Cambridge classes.

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.