International Baccalaureate Organization
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The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) is an international non-profit educational foundation, founded in 1968 in Geneva, Switzerland.[1] The organisation's original intent was to provide schools with an international curriculum which would be acceptable to universities around the world. This idea led to the creation of the IB Diploma Programme. The Middle Years Programme and Primary Years Programme were created in 1994 and 1997 respectively, allowing the IBO to direct education all the way from age three to the end of the secondary level.
The organisation's first director-general was Alec Peterson, who played a crucial part in the development of the IB and the formation of the organisation.
The IBO functions on fees charged from schools who wish to implement one or more of the organisation's educational programmes. Traditionally, the schools offering the programmes were private international schools, but the number of state schools (public schools in the U.S.) is increasing. Today, over half of all Diploma Programme students are from these schools. There are currently 1,553 schools implementing the organisation's programmes.
The IBO's current director-general is Jeffrey Beard.[2] The organisation has four regional offices: IB North America and the Caribbean (headquartered in New York), IB Latin America (Buenos Aires), IB Asia-Pacific (Singapore), and IB Africa, Europe, and Middle East (Cardiff).
[edit] References
- ^ About the IBO. Retrieved on 2006-11-09.
- ^ Director general biography. Retrieved on 2006-11-09.
[edit] External link
- International Baccalaureate Organization - The official site.
