St. Stephen's International School, Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
CIS · membershipSt Stephen's International School · 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 belongs to this organisation but has not been through its accreditation. The difference matters: membership is usually paid for and has no external inspection behind it. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Programmes of the University of Cambridge: the school teaches to Cambridge syllabuses and enters its pupils for exams that Cambridge marks itself. 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.
What this means for this school. The papers are marked by Cambridge, not by the school, so a leaver's grade does not depend on how strict their own teachers are with them. To enter pupils for these exams a school has to be registered as a Cambridge exam centre; registration as a centre is permission to run exams rather than accreditation of the school, and it says nothing about the quality of teaching. IGCSE is taken at around Year 10 or 11 and A-Level in the final years, and it is the A-Level results that carry a pupil into British and many other universities.
St. Stephen's International School - a Thai school with two campuses joined by a common site, sis.edu, and a common St. Stephen's Community: a campus in Bangkok and a campus in Khao Yai. The philosophical foundation of the school was laid by Chris Assakul, the late founder and former chairman of Ocean Life Insurance Company Limited. The motto of the school is Where East meets West, and the mission is formulated as Leadership in the Making - to Create Tomorrow's Leaders Today. The Khao Yai campus also runs its own centre for out-of-school education, The Howling Gibbon, which takes groups from outside as well.
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.