EMASI Van Phuc School

An American regional accreditation of the institution, working since 1962 and covering some 5,500 schools in California, the Pacific and Asia. It judges the whole school: a self-study, then a team visit. It gives the same status to supplementary and virtual programmes, so the category of an entry is worth checking separately.

What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. 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. At this school: Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14), IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge. Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end. IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.

Hệ thống Trường EMASI, in English EMASI Schools - a Vietnamese school system which presents its sites as its own campuses; there is no division into owner, operator and franchise on the site. The count runs from 2019: the launch was announced on 7 March 2019, and the first two campuses opened on 12 August 2019 - EMASI Van Phuc and EMASI Nam Long, both in Ho Chi Minh City. The first graduating class was in 2022. The third campus, EMASI Plus Waterpoint, opened on 7 March 2025. Nguyen Tuyen is named as the founder, and in the footer of the site the network is marked as a member of the Khai Sáng group. The sites describe the standing of the third campus differently: emasi.edu.vn counts Waterpoint as the third EMASI campus and its first school with boarding, while emasiplus.edu.vn runs a separate brand and separates EMASI Schools and EMASI Plus Schools in its menu. The place disagrees as well: Tay Ninh on one site, Ben Luc in Long An province on the other. Teaching is bilingual, Vietnamese and English, from the preschool stage to grade 12, with the national programme paired with the Cambridge Pathway and the early years on EYFS with elements of Montessori. WASC accreditation and membership of Cambridge International are declared.

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.