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Nicky Dulfer; Merryn Dawborn-Gundlach – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a market leader in international education however, research suggests that it predominantly serves elite populations (Bunnell, T., M. Donnelly, H. Lauder, and S. Whewall. 2020. "International Mindedness as a Platform for Class Solidarity." "Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Advantaged, Marketing
Wootten, Leeanne Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The International Baccalaureate Continuum offers both local elite and the expatriate populations around the world a transferable and transportable education package from pre-Kindergarten to grade 12. IBC full diploma graduates are positioned to be accepted into the best universities in the world. For critics, the IBC is Western elitist and for the…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, 21st Century Skills, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
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Resnik, Julia – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
The recognition of the DP (diploma programme) for university admission is crucial for the development of International Baccalaureate (IB) schools and the expansion of the IB network worldwide. In an era of higher education (HE) massification, accompanied by high failure and dropout rates, intense debates on access to HE are taking place in many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Higher Education
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Resnik, Julia – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
This paper compares the development of International Baccalaureate (IB) schools in four different settings: Argentine, Chile, Spain and Ecuador. The global comparative approach used in this study, based on actor-network theory (ANT), allows us to analyse the connections and interactions between global actors and the plurality of national,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, International Education