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Tirana, Albania · est. 1995 · Private
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A private full-day secondary school in Tirana, grades X-XII. The school gives 1995 as its founding year, while the group's site dates the Tirana high school to 1997. Teaching is bilingual: sciences, mathematics and ICT are taught in English, social subjects in Albanian. German and Turkish are offered as additional languages. Students follow the Albanian curriculum with the State Matura and the Cambridge programme in parallel: IGCSE and AS and A Level. The programme page places IGCSE in grade X and A Level in XI-XII; the Cambridge programmes page describes IGCSE as a two-year course in grades X-XI, with the mathematics exam at the end of grade X, and AS and A Level in grades XI-XII. IGCSE subjects: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, ICT, English. The school also prepares students for SAT, IELTS and TOEFL. Over the years it has had more than 2000 graduates, studying in more than 35 countries.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level
Languages of instruction
English, Albanian
Languages taught
German, Turkish
Admissions Admission is by a compulsory entrance test in April: mathematics, logic, Albanian language and literature, 150 minutes. Those who pass have an interview. The school gives 15 merit scholarships to the top test scorers. For students who studied abroad, the school certificate is recognised through the local education office. The school does not say separately whether it admits foreign citizens.
Stages and year groups Grades X-XII. Albanian curriculum with the State Matura and Cambridge in parallel: IGCSE in grade X (grades X-XI on the Cambridge programmes page), AS and A Level in grades XI-XII. In grade XII Albanian, literature, English, mathematics, advanced mathematics, economics and PE are compulsory, the rest are electives.
Address Rruga Pavarësia, Autostrada Tiranë-Durrës km 1, Kashar, Tiranë
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
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 →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Where leavers go: Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · University of California, Berkeley
The school says its graduates enter the world's top 100 universities, including the Ivy League and the Russell Group. A separate counselling service helps with university choice, personal statements, Common App and UCAS, and university tours in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, the UK and the USA.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: Campus on the Tirana-Durrës highway, km 1. School buses serve districts of Tirana and the surrounding area, with cameras, including after extracurricular activities.
Clubs and activities: Medicine · Economics · Programming · Architecture · Engineering · Robotics · Global Perspectives · Green Youth · Art · Model United Nations · Careers · TED Talks · Book club · E-business · Entrepreneurship · 3D modelling and printing · Creative writing · Philosophy · Media and information · International relations and politics · Critical thinking · Duke of Edinburgh · German · Mentoring · Turkish · Hope
Summer programme away from campus: . The school runs no camp of its own on campus
Summer schools take place in England, Germany and Bosnia: languages and preparation for SAT, TOEFL and IELTS.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The staff page lists more than 70 people. There is a head of guidance, two school counsellors, two psychologists and university advisers; teachers include staff from Turkey, teaching physics and Turkish.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
✓CCTV
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has two psychologists and a guidance service. The group the school belongs to has a video surveillance policy; school buses are fitted with cameras.
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Academics and programmes (16%)85 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data70 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median68 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
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