The ABC International School
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · est. 1995 · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
COBIS · accreditationBSO · accreditationFOBISIA · part of the associationCambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeGalaxy Education and Training · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
An association of British schools abroad with a quality inspection of its own. It has nine membership categories, and the word "accredited" appears in seven of them, although COBIS does its own inspection in one: in the rest it recognises an accreditation granted by somebody 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 →A scheme of the UK Department for Education: a school abroad is inspected against the standards for independent schools in England, including safeguarding and the standards for boarding. The inspections are done by independent inspectorates approved by the department, and the inspectorates themselves are monitored annually by Ofsted. The reports are published in full on the government website.
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 →One hundred and nine schools in twenty countries across Asia. It runs no quality inspection of its own, but it requires a school to hold a live external inspection and to renew it at least once every five years. Before admission two representatives of the federation visit the school for two days.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to the federation, and the federation requires its members to hold a real external inspection. What to look at is that accreditation rather than this badge, but the badge is not empty: a member school almost certainly holds one. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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: 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 →Galaxy Education and Training Ltd is named on the site of The ABC International School as the company the school is part of. No site of the company's own could be found, and the site names no other schools under this brand, so the confirmed composition is one school in Ho Chi Minh City with two campuses, in Trung Son and Nha Be. The site does not distinguish ownership, management and franchise: it says only that the school is part of the company. In the principal's welcome the school is described as a family school. The year the company itself was created, its owner and the number of institutions under it are not given on the pages. The school itself was founded in 1995, follows the national curriculum of England entirely in English, runs Cambridge IGCSE and International AS/A Level examinations and takes pupils from 2 to 18; as of August 2025 the school names more than 650 pupils of 23 nationalities and more than 75 teachers from abroad.
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.