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The English Baccalaureate (EBacc) is a school performance indicator in England linked to the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) results. [1]: 7 It measures students' attainment by calculating an average score from specified subject grades. The EBacc includes subjects which are studied in many subsequent university programmes. [2]
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) is a two-year educational programme primarily aimed at 16-to-19-year-olds in 140 countries around the world. The programme provides an internationally accepted qualification for entry into higher education and is recognized by many universities worldwide.
International Baccalaureate North America (IBNA) was established in 1975 [12] by Peter Nehr, International Baccalaureate Africa, Europe and Middle-East (IBAEM) in 1986, [13] and International Baccalaureate Asia Pacific (IBAP) during the same period. [14]
Numerous research studies have revealed that the Cambridge International General Certificate of Education – Advanced Level Programme is comparable to other, in the USA longer-established, educational qualifications, including the Advanced Placement (AP) credential and the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB). [3]
The general baccalaureate offers several additional variants. The best-known subset is the baccalauréat français international (named option internationale du baccalauréat, OIB, until 2022). Sometimes translated as the "French international baccalaureate", it is unrelated to the International Baccalaureate (IB).
Secondary education covers two phases on the ISCED scale. Level 2 or lower secondary education is considered the second and final phase of basic education, and level 3 or upper secondary education is the stage before tertiary education. Every country aims to provide basic education, but the systems and terminology remain unique to them.
The International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) is an English language based secondary qualification similar to the GCSE and is recognised in the United Kingdom as being equivalent to the GCSE for the purposes of recognising prior attainment. [1] It was developed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.
Baccalaureate may refer to: Baccalauréat, a French national academic qualification; Bachelor's degree, or baccalaureate, an undergraduate academic degree; English Baccalaureate, a performance measure to assess secondary schools in England; European Baccalaureate, a bilingual educational diploma, awarded by a European School