請問香港有多少間行IB的直資學校?

cowboymama

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ANChan59

原帖由 cherubic 於 10-11-9 14:09 發表
ANChan59,

My question may look stupid.  

In the absence of track record, how can you ensure DBS is on the right track in providing the IBDP?

No stupid question, but may have stupid answer .

Pls refer to this post and I shared about our struggles between IB vs NSS. You may know our considerations.

http://forum.edu-kingdom.com/viewthread.php?tid=2214323&extra=&page=1

My son studies in DBS and our friends' kids in Pre-IB, we have in-depth understanding of the commitment of DBS to run an outstanding IBDP. We have friends and their kids in LPCUWC, CIS, AIS, ESF, we discussed with them and got boarder picture of IB schools in HK. We opt for IB instead of NSS finally.

Many choices in HK for IB schools:
1. IS
2. ESF schools
3. LPCUWC
4. DSS IB schools and
5. Private IB schools.

In primary school, we considered 1 & 2, but we preferred local school with Christian background. He got in DBS at G7 and enjoys the school life. Personally, I prefer LPCUWC, but he didn't want to be a boarder. 4 & 5, we opt for SPCC as it has similar background as DBS and we live HK side.

Cambridge's admission officer was in HK 2009, he visited 10 top secondary schools in HK, some are IB or IB candidate schools. We shortlisted three of them, LPCUWC, SPCC and DBS. In last year Garden Fete, we discussed with 3 IB teachers at their booth, we chatted for an hour and got some useful info about the development of the Pre-IB, IBDP, IB building, subject selection, university recognition, language proficiency...... They are knowledgeable and supportive to students & parents.

He applied for both DBS and SPCC, finally he preferred DBS. We only faciliated him to make a better choice, primary school, secondary school and IB all picked by himself.

Yes, no track record, we can only reply on other track records and the systematic development of the IBDP programs by DBS. DBS recruited IB teachers and deployed some of them to teach NSS as they can't enrol more students becasue of the delay of the IB buidling construction. Students loved IB teachers and liked their methodology. Authorised in May 2010....... as per the schedule.

ANChan59

Most of your questions are answered in this post.

http://forum.edu-kingdom.com/vie ... p;extra=&page=1

ANChan59

原帖由 BookloverJ 於 10-11-9 14:37 發表
ANChan59,
As far as I know (please correct me if I am wrong), SPCC, Logos, CKY all claim to obtain the IBD authorization by year 2011. I think we will have a clearer picture before Sep 2011, and to ...

BookloverJ

Thanks for your updates.

I know SPCC pretty well, it's similar to DBS and only one year behind DBS, a canadiate school now. After one year Pre-IB, pass the assessment and it will be authorised. Similar case for CKY according to the website. They aim for 2013 as first IBDP examination.

Logos talked about IB for years, if it will be authorised in 2011, it's a great news for all loyal parents. From Sing Tao, Logos claimed the first batch IBDP graduate will be in 2012, I am not sure they will delay to 2013 or not. Anyway it's a solid progress.

How can we find the link in Logos website to see the IB info? Is it only restricted to Logos parent?

cowboymama

Hi ANChan59,

Many thanks!

cowboymama

原帖由 ANChan59 於 10-11-9 15:13 發表
Most of your questions are answered in this post.

http://forum.edu-kingdom.com/viewthread.php?tid=2214323&extra=&page=1

ANChan59

原帖由 BookloverJ 於 10-11-9 16:04 發表
ANChan59,

Sorry, I don't know the official channel to get the info regarding Logos too.

The info about IB was told by P. Yau during the briefing sessions for P.1 admission.

Interesting. Why keep it confidential?

I strongly recommend you research more on IB from IBO.

cherubic

Thanks for your reply.  It is indeed comprehensive.

The reason I ask this question is because I need to check whether my son's school is on the right track in providing IB courses (though it is already an IB school, category 5 according to your list).  My son is in P.3 at the moment, so he still gets a chance to change to other school if something gets wrong.  What we do is to compare his level (with the exception of Chinese language) with that of IS which offer IB course.

原帖由 ANChan59 於 10-11-9 15:08 發表


No stupid question, but may have stupid answer .

Pls refer to this post and I shared about our struggles between IB vs NSS. You may know our considerations.

http://forum.edu-kingdom.com/viewth ...

ANChan59

In case of candidate school, you can send a email to IBO and verify the status.

IBDP + HKDSE together is amazing to me.

cow

原帖由 BookloverJ 於 10-11-9 16:33 發表
What amused me is, they claim their students will attend both IBD and HKDSE at the same year,

Not exactly.
Somebody said that it will take the Nov exam half of year before the HKDSE. That is, the students will take the IBDP one or one and half a year ahead of the other schools' students.

ANChan59

Sorry, who is somebody? P. Yau again.

ANChan59

原帖由 BookloverJ 於 10-11-9 19:45 發表
In that way, the students of Logos must have to be very very smart.
Students from DBS, SPCC and CKY will take the IBDP after finished F.6 (HK standard), and  Logos students will take the same exam o ...

I appreciate your critical and independent thinking.

Sound like "Great Leap" and "Red Guards" . Logos better than SPCC and DBS.

PoPofamily

[quote]原帖由 ANChan59 於 10-11-9 22:11 發表


"Logos better than SPCC and DBS."

Yes, this is what Logos parents being reminded from time to time by its salesman.

judy

董伯伯話，八萬五，冇提好耐啦，即係唔存在啦。係唔係我"背"咗，近排，己少聽人話真道會行IB啦。

真道的IB到底存唔存在呢？

daisychan

原帖由 PoPofamily 於 10-11-10 00:10 發表
[quote]原帖由 ANChan59 於 10-11-9 22:11 發表


"Logos better than SPCC and DBS."

Yes, this is what Logos parents being reminded from time to time b ...

Sorry, your statement is unfair to the principal and school. For so many years in the school, I did not hear that Mr Yau had said that "Logos is better than SPCC and DBS". Please don't stir up a debate.

judy

原帖由 cman_li 於 10-11-9 09:43 發表
"As a local educator of a subsidised school, I bear in mind to offer local education system. At least there is no immediate need of IB in DGS” said by Mrs Stella Lau
(DGS Headmistress) in the DGS ad ...

好幾年前我也去聽女拔簡介會，也有人問校長此問題。校長有解釋不辦IB之原因。大意是本地課程實凈，而通過平時的課外活動、服務計划和專題研習，大抵补充了本地課程的不足。我估意思即是：根本唔需要花錢去搞IB。

PoPofamily

原帖由 judy 於 10-11-10 11:23 發表


好幾年前我也去聽女拔簡介會，也有人問校長此問題。校長有解釋不辦IB之原因。大意是本地課程實凈，而通過平時的課外活動、服務計划和專題研習，大抵补充了本地課程的不足。我估意思即是：根本唔需要花錢去搞IB。 ...

When I attended the talk on NSS, the officer-in-charge of seeking the recognition of the new system aboard informed that the NSS is so quickly accepted by so many countries is due to the introduction of OLE. OLE has filled up the shortages of the old system. And when you look into the grading models provided by EDB, the marking system is also revised, it won't be so easy to obtain 5* and for 5**(I feel that it is designed for students really talented or gifted in that area).
According to the UCAS's tariff table HKDSE grade 5*=to IB grade 7(high level) and the marking of 5** will be determined after 2010.  Of cousrse, no one can tell at this moment how Us will weigh a student of HKDSE 5* with that of IB 7. but IB students can only go through Non-Jupas system for a place in local Us, Non-Jupas is not only reserved for IB stduents, it takes in all students  other then those taking HKDSE.  So it is really not a must to open IB courses.

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