Satit International Bilingual School of Rangsit University Chiangmai
Chiang Mai, Thailand · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
ACS WASC · accreditationCambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeArthit Ourairat Institution · 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 →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: Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14), IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge. Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end. 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 →A Thai education group with its own site, arthitourairat.com, named after Dr Arthit Ourairat and describing itself as "a leading Thailand-based education group". No year of foundation for AOI itself is given on the site; only the prehistory is set out: Rangsit College opened in 1986, jointly by Dr Arthit and his father Prasit Ourairat, and in 1990 the college became a university. The site lists four schools - British International School Phuket, SBS International School Bangkok, SBS International School Chiangmai and SBS Rangsit - and at the same time reports that "a fourth school is under construction in Bangkok", so the number of schools disagrees within the site, and we give both statements. A separate page of the site is given to Satit International Bilingual School of Rangsit University Chiangmai (SIBS). On the current leadership it says that Dr Arthit's daughter has taken on the day-to-day management of the schools. The site says nothing formally about the tie to Rangsit University or about whether AOI owns the schools or manages them, and this cannot be told apart from it.
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.