Kajonkiet International School, Phuket
Phuket, Thailand · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
ACS WASC · accreditationPearson · authorised programmeCambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeKajonkiet Group · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →No site of the group's own could be found, so this note is put together from the sites of its schools, and that has to be borne in mind. The site of Kajonkiet International School Phuket (kisp.academy) writes plainly: "Although KIS is placed under Kajonkiet group's umbrella, KIS is the only school that offers the English National Curriculum"; KIS itself is described as a co-educational day school for children from 2 to 18 on a site of 15 rai. The site of Kajonkietsuksa School (ks.kajonkietsuksa.ac.th) states that the school was founded in 1954 and was the first on Phuket to introduce the English programme, but says nothing about the group. The site of Kajonkiet Thalang School (kt.kajonkietsuksa.ac.th) gives the school as founded on 6 May 2014 and mentions "Kajonkiet Schools Group" and standards common to the group. None of these sites gives a full list of the group's schools, the name of an owner or founder, or a division between ownership and management.
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.