Ningbo plans to set up an international high school

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Category: On The Campus

Published: Tuesday, 25 March 2014 13:44

The city currently has seven international curriculum classes, but it doesn’t have any international high school. The pattern will be upset in the latter half of the year. The first independent Sino-foreign cooperative school of Ningbo, Kent School, has got approval for its establishment and will enroll students in this fall semester. This is the first foreign cooperative high school which gets the approval of the establishment in Zhejiang Province.

According to reports, Ningbo Kent School will be co-founded by Kent, Ontario, Canada and Zhenhai Middle School (which already has "Cambridge international curriculum experimental class"). It is also a major achievement in promoting Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools after Ningbo has become a pilot area of international cooperation in high-school education.

The Kent School is a full boarding school. It has three-year system, with small-size classes. It is also a bilingual school and adopts the credit system. The school plans to enroll 700 students who are in 24 classes. The school, which is based in Ningbo and facing the surrounding areas, will mainly enroll students that are willing to go abroad for exchange and some international students in China.

The school will introduce North American (U.S., Canada) official certification and standards of education quality evaluation system. It’ll also set up a scientific and rational 10 to 12 grade curriculum, which is related to North American. According to the requirements of deepening reform of high school curriculum in Zhejiang, the school will offer some core courses of Chinese high-school curriculum.