NLCS Dubai gets early approval for IB diploma programme
dubai — The International Baccalaureate (IB) has approved North London Collegiate School Dubai to offer the Diploma Programme from September.
The school will now join NLCS (UK), NLCS Jeju and the community of approximately 5000 diploma programme schools in 141 countries across the world.
The announcement underscores the consistency with which NLCS Dubai has aimed at being a leading IB school and also a Continuum IB school to include DP, MYP and PYP. The School’s founders expect that achievement in Dubai will mirror NLCS’s other schools, NLCS (UK) and NLCS Jeju, that have scored an average of 42.4 and 38 respectively. Seven students between the two schools scored a perfect score of 45 last year, a feat achieved by only 218 students out of 160,000 students from around the world.
These scores and the exceptional quality of education have allowed more than 40 per cent of NLCS (UK) students to secure places in Oxbridge and IVY League Universities.
“I wholeheartedly congratulate the NLCS Dubai leadership team for this achievement. We are on our way to delivering the most competitive IB programme in the Middle East,” said Ajay Rajendran, co-chairman, Sobha Group. “When we decided to work with NLCS, we were confident of bringing a higher standard of education to Dubai and we are very pleased to see that we are already living up to that reputation.”
“It is a proud moment for me and the staff at NLCS Dubai, to be recognised as an IB World School in our first year of operation,” said Daniel Lewis, principal of NLCS Dubai.
The IB Diploma is an academically challenging and balanced programme of education that prepares students for success at university and life beyond. It has been designed to address the intellectual, social, emotional and physical well-being of students and has gained recognition and respect from the world’s leading universities. Many studies have proven that IB Diploma students cope and perform better at university compared to their non-IB peers.