Reigate Grammar School Vietnam
Hanoi, Vietnam · est. 2013 · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, DP · authorised programmeCOBIS · accreditationFOBISIA · part of the associationCambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeReigate Grammar School International · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
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: PYP (ages 3-12), DP (ages 16-19). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end. DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →An association of British schools abroad with a quality inspection of its own. It has nine membership categories, and the word "accredited" appears in seven of them, although COBIS does its own inspection in one: in the rest it recognises an accreditation granted by somebody else.
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 →One hundred and nine schools in twenty countries across Asia. It runs no quality inspection of its own, but it requires a school to hold a live external inspection and to renew it at least once every five years. Before admission two representatives of the federation visit the school for two days.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to the federation, and the federation requires its members to hold a real external inspection. What to look at is that accreditation rather than this badge, but the badge is not empty: a member school almost certainly holds one. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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 →Reigate Grammar School International is a subsidiary owned one hundred per cent by the English school Reigate Grammar School in Reigate, Surrey. It was created in 2016 to open international schools and to consult worldwide under a licence from the English school. The site separates two levels outright: the company itself is wholly owned by the school, while the schools abroad work under its name under licence; at the same time, for no single school does it specify whether this is ownership, a management contract or a franchise, and it does not name the owners of the campuses abroad. The schools section lists RGS Vietnam in Hanoi, RGS Nanjing, RGS Shenzhen, RGS Zhangjiagang, RGS Riyadh, RGS Cambodia and RGS Malaysia, with RGS Morocco and Zhixin High School in a separate partnerships block. The section about the company gives a different list of countries: China, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Cambodia and recently signed contracts for schools in the UAE and Turkey, without Morocco; we give both. The site names no single number of schools. The ethos, the pastoral care model, the teaching philosophy, the expertise in curriculum design and the operational systems are named as shared with the English school, along with exchanges and camps in the United Kingdom.
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.