The Regent 's School-Thailand
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ANNOUNCE
Global Connect (GC) Scholarship
Two-year scholarship for 16 years old pupils to study for an International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma or four-year scholarship for 14 years old pupils to study 2-year IGCSE plus 2-year IB Diploma.
Global Bridge Educational Centre ( www.gb.am ) announces scholarship opportunities to receive a first-class international education at the Regent's School. Selected students aged 16 with strong recommendations from their school principal will be invited to apply for a two-year scholarship to study for an IB Diploma under the Global Connect Scholar Programme. Students aged 14 will be selected to study International General Certificate of Secondary Education ( IGCSE ) subjects. The selection process involves a test in both English and Mathematics. Short-listed candidates will be invited for interview. Testing and interviewing will take place in the end of May 2010. Qualified applicants will be notified well in advance. The final results of the selection will be announced by in the later part of June 2010.
Two winners each for IB and IGCSE study, if successful in tests and interview, will receive 90% scholarship (i.e., 90% off all the tuition and boarding fees). Less qualified candidates may be offered lesser scholarships. The winners will study at a top class international boarding school in Thailand , namely The Regent's School, either at Pattaya or Bangkok campus, at the discretion of the School. The value of the 90% scholarship of the tuition and boarding fees is approximately US$ 20,000. Actual fee structure can be found on www.regents. ac.th under ‘fees'. The full boarding fees are approximately US$ 22,000 a year. The best 90% awarded pupil pays only 10% or US$ 2,200 a year, and less qualified paying a higher percentage of school fees.
There are currently nearly 1,000 students from 48 countries studying at The Regent's School-Pattaya Campus and approximately 550 from 30 countries at Bangkok Campus. The school is fully accredited by Great Britain 's Ofsted inspectors through WES Educational Trust of UK. Recent graduates were accepted to study at Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Imperial College , King's College London, UCL , etc in the UK; Stanford, MIT, Wharton, UCLA , UC-Berkeley in the US, for instance.
At present there are 65 GC pupils at both campuses from Armenia , Estonia , Bulgaria , Slovakia , Czech Republic and Lithuania under this Global Connect Programme.. Over 80 have graduated since 1999.
Scholarship students will
· have a once in a lifetime opportunity to study at a fully accredited international school whose graduates have received places from top universities in the world such as Oxford, Cambridge, LSE in the UK and Stanford, Wharton, UCLA in the US.
· develop a sense of our ‘ global community” and cultivate a world-view;
· enjoy living on a secure international co-educational campus in a beautiful tropical setting;
· experience the personal challenge of living away from home for a number of years;
· have the opportunity to contribute to their home country's economic development by enriching the pool of expertise;
· experience at first hand the vibrancy of Eastern Asian and Thai culture (even learn a little Thai!);
· learn through the English National Curriculum and graduate with IB qualifications which have world-wide respect and value;
· improve their own English to fluency or near in the environment in which all main teachers are native English speakers, thus enhancing their personal prospects;
· have the opportunity of travelling both in Thailand and beyond through the Regent's enrichment programmes, such as the Round Square initiative ( www.roundsquare. org ), FOBISSEA ( www.fobissea. org ) and Student Guild activities;
· make friends with students of internationally oriented families from over thirty different countries thus establishing a ‘ network for life ';
· increase their opportunities for education, whether in their home system or at universities abroad.
Who should apply?
The Regent's School's standard is high and its students are expected to have ability above the average of good schools in England , both academically and sociably. This is why our school was chosen to be a full member of a unique organisation called “ Round Square ” ( www.roundsquare. org ), which consists of only 62 outstanding schools in the world. HM King Constantine is its Chairman and HRH Duke of York , Prince Andrew is among its patrons. All school members of the Round Square are committed to produce well-rounded leaders out of their students. Therefore we encourage only those who want to be well rounded persons who have both academic ability, as well as those who have keen interest in extracurricular activities such as music, sport, outdoor pursuits and community service, to apply . In addition, good role model setting is strongly expected of the scholars, i.e. GC Scholars are required to lead others by being good role models.
Applications for the scholarship competition are welcome from students with the following profile
u Date of birth: preferably
For IB Diploma Study : those who will still have two more years of high school remaining after June 2010
For IGCSE Study : those who will still have four more years of high school remaining after June 2010
How to apply ?
For further information about the school and the application process please visit the exclusive representative of the Regent's School in the region Global Bridge Educational Centre** ( Apt. 8 , 49 Nalbandyan Str., Yerevan , Armenia ) or call + 374 10 52 39 15 ( www.gb.am ). You may also join our page on facebook at http://www.facebook .com/search/ ?q=global+ bridge&init=quick#! /group.php? gid=154673748578&ref=ss
At Global Bridge you can prepare for the English and Mathematics examinations with qualified native English speaker.
The Chairman and the Director of Global Bridge are both the Regent's School Alumni and have represented the school in Armenia since 2006.
* IB Diploma Programme ( www.ibo.org ) is a two-year course leading to examinations taken at the end of Y13 (Grade 12) when students are 18+. The IB Diploma is an entry qualification to university in most countries and qualifies to study 3-year degree programmes in the UK without having to take any entrance exam or SAT test. A soft copy of our in-house handbook detailing the curriculum and the variety of subjects offered next year can be obtained from enquiry@regents. ac.th
**“Global Bridge” is a leading institution of English language learning with native English speakers as teachers, mainly focusing on academic, professional and general English, IELTS, BEC , GRE, GMAT, FCE, CAE and TOEFL preparation as well as students' consultancy to obtain academic degrees and participate in English language summer schools at higher education institutions in the UK, such as the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Global Bridge is a partner of Education First (International) , London School of Commerce (UK), St. George's School (Switzerland) , The Cambridge Education Group (UK), The University of Cambridge and its Su mmer Schools, etc. It is the exclusive representative of the Regent's School ( Thailand , UK ) in the region and has been running a scholarship programme with the latter, a budget of which adds to over USD 3, 000, 000. |