Shrewsbury International School Bangkok, Riverside Campus
Bangkok, Thailand · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
CIS · accreditationPearson · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeShrewsbury International Schools · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
It accredits international schools and is a paying association at the same time. It examines governance and ownership, the curriculum, teaching, student wellbeing, staff and premises; a team of volunteers from other CIS accredited schools visits the school. Membership and accreditation are different things here, and schools confuse them more often than anything 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 →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. 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 →Shrewsbury International Asia: an Asian association of international schools bearing the name of the British Shrewsbury School, founded by royal charter in 1552 in Shropshire. It includes two campuses in Bangkok - Riverside and City - and a school in Hong Kong. The British Shrewsbury School teaches some 800 pupils aged 13-18 on a site of more than 100 acres and remains a separate institution; the Bangkok schools speak of belonging to the Shrewsbury family and of a shared heritage of more than 470 years, while describing the connection as kinship rather than ownership.
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.