Satit Prasarnmit International Programme
Bangkok, Thailand · est. 2010 · StateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Pearson · authorised programmeCambridge · Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmePrasarnmit Demonstration School, Srinakharinwirot University · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
It gives a school approved centre status: that means Pearson exams can be sat in the school itself. What is checked is the premises, the equipment, the secure storage of papers and the presence of trained invigilators.
What the badge means for this school. The school can run Pearson exams on its own premises. The status says nothing about teaching, about results or about the school itself: any school able to run an exam securely holds it. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which Pearson qualifications this school is approved for is not stated here.
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: Lower Secondary (ages 11-14), IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). 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 →The site of Srinakharinwirot University itself did not open for us: swu.ac.th and its subdomains return a refusal from a robot check which we do not get round, so this note is written from the site of the school's international programme, spip.in.th, and that is a caveat about the source. There it says that the Satit Prasarnmit International Programme (SPIP) officially opened in March 2010 on the campus of Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok and was created "with the strong support and supervision of Prasarnmit Demonstration School (secondary)", that is, it works under the demonstration school, and that school under the university. The programme is built entirely on a Cambridge basis, the school holds the status of a Cambridge International Centre and runs IGCSE and A level examinations. The numbers on the site disagree: it speaks both of a start with about 64 pupils growing to "more than 450" and of "438 students at SPIP", and we give both figures. The site calls it the first state school in Thailand with such a programme. Neither the workings of the demonstration school itself nor how many other demonstration schools the university has is described by this source.
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.