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By default, most schools in British Columbia teach through English, with French immersion options available. In both English and French-medium schools, one can study and take government exams in Japanese, Punjabi, Mandarin Chinese, French, Spanish, and German at the secondary level.
The library traces its origins to the Bangkok Ladies' Library Association, which was established in 1869, but did not have a permanent location until the current building was commissioned in 1921 by resident American doctor T. Heyward Hays in memory of his late wife, Jennie Neilson Hays, who had been an active member of the library board.
Assumption Convent School was originally written in French as "Couvent de l'Assomption". Later, it was changed to English as Assumption Convent. The Assumption is the abbreviation of Assumptio Beatae Virginis Mariae. This supposedly honours the Virgin Mary's body and soul in heaven. And couvent means the place where the sisters live together.
Stamford International University opened a second campus in Bangkok on 27 November 2008 for international programmes (taught in English). This campus is close to the airport link road. [9] Prior to the launch of this city campus, Stamford used to hold classes for master's degree courses at a study center in central Bangkok on Sukhumvit Road. [10]
In June 1947, just prior to the transfer, a Teacher Training Department was created under the school's authority to support the expansion of the national school system. This department, which became known as the Satit (demonstration) School, would extend teaching to mathayom 1–6 levels, and authority was transferred to the College of ...
It is now a mixed school with separate Thai and English programs. The school was established on 28 February 1934 and was officially approved on 10 January 1937. It initially offered Grades 1 to 4. In 1975, the school opened a kindergarten program and used a 2-storey wooden building as a classroom. In 2002, The English Program (EP) was introduced.
Anna Edwards's husband-to-be, Thomas Leon Owens, an Irish Protestant from Enniscorthy, County Wexford, went to India with the 28th Regiment of Foot in 1843. From a private, he rose to the position of paymaster's clerk (rather than the army officer suggested by her memoir) in 1844, serving first in Poona, and from December 1845 until 1847 in Deesa. [20]
These schools provide student teachers with practice-teaching opportunities, and are also used by the universities for education research and development. The oldest dedicated teacher-training schools in Thailand are the Prasarnmit and Patumwan Demonstration Schools of Srinakharinwirot University , which opened in 1953 and 1954, respectively.