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CIS · accreditationVinschool · 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 →Vinschool is the school system of the Vietnamese corporation Vingroup itself, not a franchise and not the brand of an outside operator: the site calls it a not-for-profit all-through system run by the parent company and funded by it. The year of foundation given is 2013. The numbers of campuses and pupils differ across pages and we give all four: the English section about the system gives 43 campuses and 36,000 pupils, a page on the edurun subdomain 54 campuses and nearly 48,000, the Vietnamese home page 56 sites and nearly 50,000, and the English questions and answers section 61 campuses and more than 50,000. The geography according to the site: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong, Thanh Hoa, Hung Yen, Phu Quoc. The stages run from kindergarten to upper secondary school. The programme is built as a combination of the Vietnamese state curriculum and the Cambridge one, and the site calls Vinschool the first school system in the country to receive the ministry's permission for this; rights to the International Preschool Curriculum, IGCSE and AS/A Level subjects and Advanced Placement courses are claimed. There are two tracks: a standard one, where the Cambridge subjects are taught in Vietnamese, and an advanced one, where the specialist subjects are taught in English. CIS accreditation.
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.