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Who monitors the activities of the international schools?

Who monitor the international schools activity and quality of their service? Some say they follow Cambridge, Oxford etc.

Are the schools monitored by the Oxford and Cambridge universities or the Department of educational?

How far we can trust these schools? To whom we need to report if there is any dispute? What are the condition to run International school? How we or where we can check their genuinity?

Kindly advice

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It is a pity that no authority is interested in regulating international schools. The UAE embassy requires a letter from Education Ministry to verify the school my child attends and when approached Ministry of Education I was rather humiliated and considered a retarded person who do not even belong there. How to explain to embassies that our education system is not bothered about regulating international schools? I am so lost and sad.

Comment author woman

I think the international schools as at now where not under the Education ministry and were operating as business ventures with a profit motive in mid. Some of them even were exempt from tax if they were labelled as BOI projects.Edexcel, Cambridge Examinations are held and conducted by the British Council of Sri Lanka.I am not sure of how to check the verification of international schools, but maybe if the were under the Companies Act of 2007 of Sri Lanka then all rules would be governed by them.

Comment author woman

1. Edexcel and Cambridge are providing curriculum and conducting exams, they are not monitoring the academic standard and facilities of international schools.

2. If you have any complain against them you can report to British council in Sri Lanka or directly to their offices in UK.

3. Government of Sri Lanka is going to bring a new education act to register, regulate international schools. You can read more information on this link ;
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/130224/news/new-education-act-to-register-regulate-international-schools-34385.html

4. You have to wait till this regulation commission become function. Currently we do not have any authority to complain regarding the academic standards, quality of education, facilities . . . etc of international schools.

Comment author woman

It is very good question you raised up. It is extremely sad to say that not a single international or government body who are there to check the standard of the international schools. If there is then there wont be lots of schools which will have to be closed down. You could approach British Council but still i do not think there will be any positive feed back.

Comment author woman

Good conversation I would like to gather my Idea too, I am presently working in an international school in Doha, Qatar as primary coordinator. Here rules are very strick with school and their qualities, even we have self study committee to submit details about the school to Supreme educational council, I am part of that committee and it is not easier to get accreditation from SEC in Qatar, if an international school failed to full fill their standards, they will not upgrade the license of the school. So I hope sri lankan education department too need some kind of mechanism to overcome these unbalancing in education.

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