King's College International School Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand · est. 2018 · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
BSO · accreditationCambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeKing's College School Wimbledon · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
A scheme of the UK Department for Education: a school abroad is inspected against the standards for independent schools in England, including safeguarding and the standards for boarding. The inspections are done by independent inspectorates approved by the department, and the inspectorates themselves are monitored annually by Ofsted. The reports are published in full on the government website.
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 →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), A-Level (ages 16-18). 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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →The school's own domain is kcs.org.uk; its archive section, archives.kcs.org.uk, confirms a foundation in 1829 ("from its foundation in 1829 to the present day"). The main pages of kcs.org.uk, including the section on schools abroad, did not render for us: to every address requested the site returned one and the same open-day announcement, so we could not confirm the composition and status of the international arm from the site of the school itself. The rest is taken from the site of its Bangkok school, kingsbangkok.ac.th, and that is a caveat about the source: there King's College International School Bangkok is called "a King's College School Wimbledon International School", the opening is dated to 2020, and the capacity at full occupancy is declared as over 1,500 pupils aged 2 to 18. The tie is described with the word "partnership": "King's Bangkok is fortunate to have a strong partnership with King's Wimbledon", with approval of the curriculum, final interviews of teachers at Wimbledon, quality audits and an education committee chaired by the Wimbledon school. The overseas "family" of King's Wimbledon is listed in the same place as Thailand, China and Monaco. Who owns the Bangkok school is not reported by any of the sections available to us, so ownership, management and a licence of the name cannot be told apart here.
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.