The Australian International School is pleased to announce the introduction of the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) curriculum from January 2013. The 2013 Year 9 cohort will be the first AIS students to study this curriculum.
The IGCSE program is the world’s most popular international curriculum for 14 to 16 year olds, attracting almost 500,000 entries from 144 countries. It is used as a preparation program for the IB Diploma Programme, and other courses leading to University entrance by top international schools around the world. Leading universities and employers worldwide recognize IGCSE qualifications as evidence of academic ability.
Dr Nick Miller, Principal of AIS said:
“It is our responsibility as a school to provide the optimum environment for our students to achieve their personal best in the classroom. In direct response to the overwhelming request from parents to continue to raise academic standards, we have taken the decision to introducing the IGCSE to complement the other curriculum options on offer at AIS.
Both our vision and mission at AIS focus on excellence and the IGCSE is benchmarked to international standards. It is specifically designed to ensure that students have learned all the prerequisite knowledge, skills and understandings to be able to commence the IB Diploma or HSC programmes fully prepared to achieve the best possible results.”
The IGCSE is a two-year course of study, which mirrors the processes of both the IB Diploma Programme and the Higher School Certificate (HSC) – the two curriculum pathways which AIS offers its Year 11 and 12 students. The IGCSE courses have been created specifically for international use and the IGCSE examinations are tailored for a multi–cultural, multi–lingual student body. At AIS, students will take a total of eight subjects as part of the IGCSE including: English, Languages, Maths, Science, Humanities and two further options, including the arts and technology subjects. As part of the Globally Focused aspect of AIS’ mission, the School are also making the IGCSE Global Perspectives course compulsory for all students.
IGCSEs are 100% externally assessed which ensures consistency of standards that can be benchmarked internationally. Each course comes with a clear syllabus, which is available to parents, as well as assessment criteria. For teachers, complete scope and sequence documents are available, and a wide range of textbooks and other resource material has been prepared by major publishers to support the courses.
The IGCSE will replace the current curriculum offered in Years 9 and 10 under the IB Middle Years Programme framework, and will be phased in over the next two years.
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