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IB Asia Pacific Newsletter 

Quarter Two, 2008

Message from the Regional Director

Message from the Regional Director  

Greetings to you all with our second quarter enewsletter edition for 2008. We wish all the May session schools candidates the

success they deserve with the Diploma examinations and a happy, relaxing and safe summer break.  This is a particularly poignant admonishment as over the last few weeks we have watched the challenges faced by the group of IB Diploma students from Guangya School in Sichuan province in China.

We commend the Head, Coordinator and staff for their calm and balanced perspectives in addressing the needs of the students at this time and our thoughts are with the wider school community as many face the challenges of rebuilding their school, and their homes.

Regional Conference :  Beijing (17-20 October, 2007)

Theme : “Educating for Social Responsibility”

Registrations are open and coming in quickly. We encourage schools to register during the early bird registration phase i.e. prior to 1 August. We had a fantastic response to the Call for Papers – so this promises to be an exciting programme.

Regional Council

The newly constituted Regional Council met in Singapore on 2

and 3 May 2008. A warm welcome to the two new members of

the Council, David Walker, Managing Director Macquarie Capital

Advisers, is a businessman based in Singapore. David has also

taken on the role of Trustee for IB operations in Singapore.

Richard Henry is the Head of Sekolah Global Jaya in Jakarta.

Both new members bring perspectives from very different

backgrounds and experiences to the group. Discussions focused

on The Access Agenda from the Board, Fundraising, Fees

Setting, setting priorities and strategies for University

Recognition and providing feedback to the Programme

Recognition Agenda.

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Regional Council at the IB Asia Pacific office

Back Row: (L-R) Judith Guy, David Walker, Anne Fowles, Anuradha Monga, Panayoula Parha, Prof Dinesh Panjwani, Harriet Zhu, Richard Henry, Dr Jan Keightley, Sally Holloway

Front Row: (L-R) Dr Yoshiaki Obara, Rod Fraser, Eddy Henry

Increase in fees

Much information was published in October 2006 regarding Fee

increases for PYP and MYP that came into effect last September.

Regionally we have also undertaken an ongoing service costing

exercise with respect to Authorisation Fees. The outcome of this

will be a more realistic charge particularly for Application Part A fees for the Diploma which we are now also bringing in line with Part A fees for MYP and PYP programmes.   Application PART A fees are inclusive of: Advice and guidance in relation to implementation of the programme, subscription to the OCC, Arrangement of the pre-authorization visit, staff time on the pre-authorization visit itself and preparation and submission of the pre-authorization report, Coordinator notes and programme development and updates, access to in-school training and consultation. The regional fees schedule for 2008/09 is available here.

Reminders

eMail Protocol

We get a lot of email from yahoo or hotmail accounts – correspondents please include your name and school name in full as it is not always possible to know where you are from.

Logo

Please check that you are using the correct IB world school logo.

                            logo

A number of schools are using old logos or the IB Corporate logo on their websites or on their marketing materials. You can download the logo from : https://www.ibo.org/communications/schools/index.cfm 

We invite schools to provide articles to the third quarter 2008 IB

Asia Pacific Newsletter with the latest happenings at your school

or if there are any special events, please email ibap@ibo.org by

latest 20 August 2008. 

The entire IB Asia Pacific staff would again like to thank the many schools which have again supported our work this year, by hosting workshops, and/or releasing workshop leaders, committee members and authorisation team members or by joining schools to schools and responding to the call for volunteers.  

Our best wishes to you all. 

Judith Guy, Regional Director

IB Asia Pacific

Email: ibap@ibo.org  

 


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Please can we have your support on doing this ?

Fond Farewells

Patrick Ritter is leaving us

in June to take up the post

of Head of School at the

Beacon School, Manila. We

thank Patrick sincerely for

his significant contribution to

the MYP and to the IB’s

overall operations in the

region over the last four

years.

Congratulations

Nigel Forbes-Harper has been appointed to the role of

Regional Head of Programmes with effect from 1 August 2008. This will

be a new role coordinating the quality of services to schools in supporting the implementation of the programmes.

Welcome

Cynthia Quah has joined the Singapore office in an Accounts Receivable role.

 

Artwork with Thanks

To Mark McCallum, the Art Department and the IB Diploma Visual Arts students from the International School of Singapore for their generous donation of framed artwork for our new office space which was looking bare! Our sincere appreciation.

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Two of the artwork