Kamnoetvidya Science Academy

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.

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.

Mulnithi Phalang Sangsan Nawatkam, in English the Power of Innovation Foundation: a Thai charitable foundation, established by the PTT group on 25 January 2013 with a registered capital of 500,000 baht. Its former name was RAIST Foundation, the foundation of the Rayong Institute of Science and Technology. The foundation took over the licence for Kamnoetvidya Science Academy on 24 September 2020 from another foundation of the same group, the Power of Learning Foundation. It works as a non-profit organisation and is entered in the list of public charitable organisations of the Ministry of Finance of Thailand under number 855. It states its task as carrying the knowledge of the PTT group into science and education: support for leading universities of science and technology and the training of researchers. The school stands in Rayong province, which the foundation calls the economic centre of the country, giving some seven per cent of the gross domestic product of Thailand.

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.