Cardiff College (Shanghai) Central School has a strong qualification background and aims to broaden students' international horizons by building a broad overseas cultural exchange platform for students. Through various academic and extracurricular activities, students can experience authentic British education, help them enter top universities in various countries, and pave a broad road for their future.
The following are frequently asked questions about Cardiff College (Shanghai) Center. I hope everyone will read it carefully!
1, enrollment scope and student's native place? Do you accept transfer students?
Grade 8-grade 10 can be enrolled, which is determined according to the students' entrance examination results. China nationality and foreign nationality are not limited.
2. What is the basis of students' future study?
In addition to the entrance examination, every student in Cardiff College must pass the school examination every year before entering the next academic year. In addition to small class teaching, the school guarantees a teacher-student ratio of 1:8, ensuring that every teacher has enough energy to care about the cultivation of students' comprehensive quality. In addition, the school also selects tutors from the classroom teachers, so that students can get the care of teachers from the aspects of psychology and extracurricular learning. For this reason, Cardiff College has always been the first in the A-LEVEL enrollment rate of British secondary schools.
3. What if the child doesn't want to give up the ordinary college entrance examination in China?
Choosing an international school means giving up the national college entrance examination. However, students from Cardiff College (Shanghai) Center have been registered as students of Cardiff College in the UK since they entered school. The A-Level certificate that students will get after graduation in the future, like the diploma of Cardiff College in the UK, is recognized by universities all over the world.
4. How do you know your child's performance at school?
The head teacher, tutor and life teacher of each class in international high schools will take the initiative to keep in touch with their parents; Parents can also learn about their children's school details through class teachers, tutors and life teachers.
5. What about the faculty of Cardiff College (Shanghai) Center?
All the foreign teachers in Cardiff College (Shanghai) Center are from Cardiff College's UK headquarters and have obtained TESOL, which helps students plan their study under the professional guidance of Cardiff College.
In addition to teaching, bilingual teachers also have the background of studying abroad and know how to help students connect with their study and life abroad. Moreover, teachers have to receive training from Cardiff public school headquarters twice a year and pass the exam before they can take up their posts.
6. What preparations and plans should parents make for their children to study abroad?
(1) Cardiff College has professional teachers to plan students' applications for further studies. According to the ratio of 1:8, there are full-time tutors besides tutors, which completely exceeds many so-called? One-on-one service of study abroad applicants;
(2) Qualified graduates of Cardiff College are recognized by universities all over the world, and universities applying for Commonwealth countries can be exempted from preparatory courses, and some American universities can also transfer credits;
(3) During the school period, the school organized students to participate in the summer school activities of Cardiff College. This important summer internship also laid a good foundation for students to apply for prestigious universities in Europe and America.
7. What should I do if my child can't get the admission notice from a foreign university for three years in high school?
Teachers in Cardiff College usually make up for some weak students, and each student must pass the entrance requirements of each academic year before entering the next academic year.
Cardiff College requires students' comprehensive quality to be tested, and only 30% of their academic ability is tested in the final exam. The usual classroom learning input, extracurricular activities and the development of comprehensive ability in all aspects are all included in the requirements of continuing education.
If students fail to apply to the ideal foreign university, our students can choose to enter Cardiff City University, or they can choose to go back to Shanghai Center, study for preparatory courses and reapply for their ideal university.
8. What country will children study abroad for in the future? Can I choose my own country and university in the future?
Our Cambridge A-Level course can be applied to any university in the world. As for the future, including university majors, our professional admission counselor will give personalized suggestions for each student to ensure that each student has the most suitable future.
9. Can I apply for an American university with an A-level score?
A-Level is an internationally renowned education system, and its achievements have been recognized by universities in more than 60 countries around the world. American famous universities, such as Harvard, Princeton, MIT, etc., also take A-Level scores as the admission criteria.
10. Do you want to study in Britain or China?
First of all, it depends on the economic situation of each family. If the economy permits, it is better to send the children out to study directly. But the premise is that parents have enough understanding and affirmation of their children's independent ability and overseas adaptability, especially their grasp and judgment of psychological adjustment ability. However, the environment and cultural atmosphere abroad are very different from those at home. Teenagers may not be able to grasp themselves well because their thoughts are not fully mature. Cardiff College Shanghai Center combines the original English teaching with the textbooks published by China People's Education Publishing House, adapting to local conditions and providing students with adequate nutrition. After the transition of early academic ability and psychological adaptation, I went to England in the last year.
1 1. What is the living environment of students after they enter school?
Hardware facilities: the school is equipped with standardized student apartments, sports grounds, canteens, international multi-functional classrooms, music classrooms, dance rooms, microcomputer rooms, psychological education activity rooms, international course study areas, lecture halls, laboratories and other supporting courses. In addition, there are sports clubs, indoor swimming pools, fencing halls, folk museums and basketball halls. To provide guarantee for students' study and life.
Campus management: the school adopts intelligent campus card management and is equipped with network complementary security monitoring mechanism to ensure the meticulous management of students.
Accommodation management: Our school is a boarding school with first-class accommodation conditions and closed management. The school is equipped with a full-time life teacher and a 24-hour full-time medical insurance system to ensure students' lives.
Shuttle bus: The school has a shuttle bus. During the study of boarders, the school will arrange shuttle buses on weekends and holidays.
12. Can students stay in school if they don't want to?
It is recommended to live on campus, because our life teachers and tutors are very important for students' extracurricular life planning and healthy psychological guidance. According to the specific needs of individual students, schools can still meet the needs of humanity.
13. Is Cardiff public school a private school or a public school?
In China, all schools that don't take the college entrance examination are private, which is clearly stipulated by the Education Commission.
Although some public schools have international departments, the number of places is very limited. Take Shanghai as an example. Every year, the total number of public international departments is 1.200, of which 600 are registered in Shanghai and the remaining 600 are registered in other places. Nearly 654.38 million students in Shanghai are eligible to take the senior high school entrance examination every year, and the competitive pressure is very great.
Therefore, when we send our children to international schools and set the lofty goal of studying abroad, it is more important to examine the ability of schools to cultivate students.
Cardiff College is the largest local public school in Wales, England, and the first directly affiliated campus of Cardiff College in China. Therefore, its ability in cultivating students' internationalization far exceeds that of international classes in public schools in China and other international schools in China.
14, Grade One, Shanghai Center, Cardiff College? How to ensure the enrollment rate?
Cardiff College is the first year to set up a campus in China. The British headquarters has a long history, and the enrollment rate is as high as 95%, which has always been the first in Wales. After graduation, many students from Cardiff College enter world-class universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Australian National University and Hong Kong University. ;