User:Dsyer/Diplomatic School Yangon

The Diplomatic School is located on No.65 Shin Saw Pu Road, Sanchaung Township in Yangon, Myanmar.

Overview of The School
The Diplomatic School is a non-profit making, independently-run school chiefly for the children of the staff of Diplomatic Missions, of United Nations Organizations, and of foreign experts and advisers assigned to Myanmar. The school caters for children from the age of 3 years upwards. In relation to the number of pupils, the school maintains a high proportion of teachers to ensure individual attention for each child. The teacher-pupil ratio is approximately 1:7. The school receives no financial assistance from any source, foreign or local, and it relies for its existence solely on school fees. There is a good deal of emphasis on self-help and self-reliance at the school and amongst parents. This has contributed greatly to the informal and happy atmosphere that surrounds the school, while in no way undermining its essential purpose of providing worthwhile tuition for the pupils.

History

The school was first established by Mr. & Mrs. Kirkham from Scotland. It was a small private school catering for young children from Embassies. In 1968, the Diplomatic Corps received an official permission to set up a Diplomatic School exempting it form registration with the Ministry of Education. Thus, the Diplomatic School was founded and affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It started as a small primary school and has gradually grown into a high school now with more than 250 students currently attending the school. The Principal of the school is Miranda.

The school's medium of instruction is in English from Nursery to Grade Ten. The curriculum followed in the school is that of the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), London. The Standard of Education is equivalent to that of high schools in other countries. The completion of high school in the Diplomatic School is equivalent to the completion of high school in any other country. The standard of education is excellent and many of the graduates have been accepted into universities around the world including the US, UK, Australia, Singapore, Thailand and Canada.