Al Ain, UAE · est. 2018 · PrivateBelvedere International School was founded in September 2018 in the Hili area of Al Ain, and traces its origins to Liverpool High School, opened in Liverpool in 1880 - the school calls its British history and traditions a point of pride. It divides its stages into a nursery, a pre-prep, a preparatory school and a senior school, and describes its IGCSE programme on a page of its own. The fee is among the lowest of the emirate's British schools, from 26,600 to 32,500 dirhams a year, and books are included. It is paid in three parts due by 15 August, 15 December and 15 March, and a registration fee of 5 per cent of the tuition sits inside the total. Alongside its BSO inspection reports the school publishes the local Irtiqaa inspection report. The main thing a parent should know: the school has Years 12 and 13, but on its own pages it names only the IGCSE programme and lists no senior-stage qualifications.
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Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeBSO · accreditationBSME · part of the associationWhat stands behind each entry
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). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
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 organisation has no public register: the status is confirmed by a document of the school.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →One hundred and eighty schools in ten countries - Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE; more than half of the membership is in the UAE. It runs no inspections of its own at all. Instead it requires somebody else's accreditation, and the requirement is strict: a school not already accredited on joining must gain accreditation within two years and then maintain it. The inspectorates are EDT or ISI, which means the accreditation in question is the British government's BSO scheme. The organisation has withdrawn its former lighter routes in - one route remains.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to the association, and the association requires its members to hold a real accreditation: for Gulf schools that is almost always BSO. What to look at is that accreditation rather than this badge. Nor is the badge empty - there is no inspection of its own behind it, but a school is not admitted to the association without somebody else's accreditation. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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