RIS Swiss Section, Deutschsprachige Schule Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand · est. 1963 · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
ZfA · accreditationeducationsuisse · accreditationRuamrudee International Schools · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
A German federal agency. It recognises a school as a German school abroad, funds it and grants the right to award the German leaving certificate. Quality is examined by a state inspection about once every six years, and schools that pass receive the mark of an excellent German school abroad.
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 →State recognition by Switzerland: the school follows the Swiss curriculum and takes pupils to the Swiss Matura, usually bilingual, alongside the certificate of the host country. Each school has a patron canton answerable for the content of the programme. Sixteen schools are recognised worldwide, so this is a narrow list rather than an industry association: far more schools call themselves Swiss.
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 →The German school programme. Recognised German schools abroad award the Deutsches Internationales Abitur, the German leaving certificate used for entry to universities in Germany. Behind the recognition stands the federal agency ZfA.
What this means for this school. ZfA recognition comes at levels: a school that takes pupils through to the German leaving certificate is one thing, a school with the DSD language diploma, where German is taught as a subject, is another. Which level this school holds is not stated here.
The school programme of Switzerland. Schools abroad recognised by the Confederation take pupils through to the Swiss maturity certificate, the Matura, used for entry to Swiss universities. There are sixteen recognised schools in the whole world, and each has a sponsoring canton answering for the content of the programme.
What this means for this school. In a school abroad the Swiss maturity is usually bilingual and runs alongside the certificate of the host country, so a leaver ends up with two documents. Recognition is granted to the school as a whole rather than to separate stages, unlike French homologation, which covers now one set of year groups, now another.
Ruamrudee International School (RIS): a school in the Min Buri district of Bangkok, founded in 1957 on Christian foundations and linked to the Redemptorist order in Thailand. Besides the main campus on Ramkhamhaeng 184 it includes an early years campus on Phraya Suren Road for children aged 2-6, the Ratchapruek campus in Nonthaburi (Pre-K 2 - Grade 10) and a campus in Phuket for children aged 2-6 with plans to expand. Since 1981 Ruamrudee International School has included the German-language RIS Swiss Section, which at the same time keeps its own statutes and its own Swiss and German accreditations.
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.