By Tim Pound
The foreign Baccalaureate (IB) is a revered qualification gaining expanding forex worldwide, and which has been followed by way of a wide selection of faculties, either private and non-private. within the united kingdom, turning out to be dissatisfaction with the A-level method has resulted in an severe debate approximately substitute skills, and in lots of faculties IB classes were brought along traditional A-level courses.This useful advent to the IB takes a balanced examine the professionals and cons and lines a wealth of recommendation from these truly enthusiastic about instructing and enforcing it in faculties. supplying comparative fabric on how IB classes range from A-levels and a subject-by-subject account of most sensible perform in instructing the IB, this booklet deals a wealthy resource of sensible suggestion for academics, college leaders or managers taken with instructing or imposing the IB programmes.
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Scheduled to be phased in over a ten-year period, the new framework was designed to assimilate existing general and vocational awards so that, for example, AS and A2 modules and their vocational equivalents would effectively become ‘components’ of the main learning programme of the Advanced Diploma. To supplement the study of specialist subjects, a compulsory ‘core’ was proposed to ensure that all students reached a minimum level of competence in three key areas – literacy and communication, mathematics, and ICT.
As McKenzie points out, ‘the means to reaching these aims [is] through the manufacture of two complementary products, described in the same document’, namely an ‘internationally recognised pre-university curriculum’ and a ‘university entrance examination, the IB Diploma, which gives access to higher education worldwide’. In summary, McKenzie comments that the IBO: sets out to link its curriculum to the promotion of understanding between countries, and to use national systems of education where appropriate to develop a curriculum that is international in the sense that it is global in range.
