Mr Anthony Rowlands Weekly Update 28.04

It has been an extremely productive and positive week at British International School Hanoi. As I reported last week, we have been undertaking our CIS/WASC accreditation visit.

The visiting team have been very busy looking at all our documentation, visiting classrooms and talking to members of the school community. In this way they can have a clear picture of the school and whether we are ready to be accredited by both CIS and WASC. A detailed report will be produced by them and we should know before the end of this academic year whether our accreditation application has been successful. It has been a pleasure to host the visiting team at the school and also to receive a visit on Tuesday afternoon from Jane Larsson, who is Executive Director of CIS. Jane was in Hanoi to attend a CIS Board Meeting and took the time to visit the school and see how we were progressing.

As I also mentioned last week, today (Friday) is the final formal day at school for our Year 13 students as they now take study leave to prepare for the A Level examinations. We had the opportunity to wish them well at a Secondary assembly this morning. They have really been an impressive group of students and many of them joined the school when we opened in August 2012 as Year 9 students. They have worked incredibly hard throughout their time with us and have been a credit to the school. I am convinced they will be successful in the forthcoming examinations. As an example of their great success, I have been absolutely thrilled to see the offers that they have received from Universities worldwide:

US Universities

• Brown University
• Boston University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Duke University
• Drexel University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Johns Hopkins University
• Lesley University
• Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
• Merrimack College
• Newbury College
• New York University (Stern)
• Northeastern University
• Pace University
• Princeton University
• Rhode Island School of Design
• Rutgers University
• Seattle University
• Stanford University
• Temple University
• Tulane University
• University of Massachusetts Boston
• University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Richmond
• University of Washington
• University of Colorado (Boulder)

UK Universities

• London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
• University of Birmingham 
• University of Bath
• University of the Arts London
• University College London (UCL)
• University of East Anglia 
• University of Exeter 
• University of Leeds 
• University of Leicester
• University of Reading 
• University of Sheffield 
• University of St Andrews

Worldwide Offers

• Yale/NUS (Singapore)
• École hôtelière de Lausanne (Switzerland)
• Simon Fraser ( Business School) (Canada)
• York University (Canada)
• University of Ottawa (Canada)
• Universita Boccina (Italy)

A large numbers of the above universities are recognised as some of the best in the world. For example, there are US Ivy League Universities in the list  along with UK Russell Group Universities, with a number of them being ranked in the top 25 of the of the World’s “best university list.” We still await the some offers from Asia and Australia and we will report these in due course. What an achievement by a wonderful group of students and I am proud of each one of them for  being great ambassadors of British International School Hanoi.

I do hope you have a wonderful long weekend and happy “Vietnamese Reunification Day” to you all on Sunday.

Anthony Rowlands, Principal