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China, Guangzhou
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• International Baccalaureate (IB) — Fettes College Guangzhou is listed as an IB World School; the school's IB authorisations and programme coordinators are shown on the official IB directory (school code 062034). Significance: IB authorisation means the school has met IB standards for delivering IB programmes (PYP/MYP as shown on the IB directory).
• Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) authorisation — the school's website states it is authorised by CAIE and lists a centre number (School Number CX162). Significance: CAIE authorisation allows the school to offer Cambridge examinations (e.g., IGCSE/A‑level pathways) and indicates compliance with Cambridge's centre requirements.
• Boarding Schools Association (BSA) membership — the school's site states it is a member of the BSA (described there as the global boarding‑school association). Significance: BSA membership indicates the school is connected to an international network of boarding institutions and follows related professional/boarding best practices promoted by the association.
• “Child‑Safe School” / Safeguarding designation on the school site — the school's pages present a formal safeguarding/child‑protection policy and describe FCG as a Child‑Safe School. Significance: this is an explicit, public school commitment to meet safeguarding standards and to train designated safeguarding leads and staff. (This is a designation and policy published by the school on its site rather than an external accreditation body's certificate.)
(Only awards shown on the school website and awarded to the school in the past five years.)
• “Special Contributing School” — awarded at the IB China Education Forum for the IBMYP Curriculum Integration Guide (2023). Significance: a formal recognition from the International Baccalaureate (IB) and the Chinese IB Schools Association (CISA) for the school's contribution to curriculum‑integration work; the school's site records it as one of five schools to receive this honour in 2023.
• Forbes China — placement on the Forbes China “Internationalised Schools” lists (listed on the school site for multiple recent years; the site cites a 2024 national ranking of 18 and earlier placements in 2022/2023). Significance: these are external rankings reported on the school's site that identify the school among a group of China schools featured by Forbes China in those years. (The school's website text and pages reference its consecutive appearances and the 2024 ranking.)
• Hurun list — listed on the school site as one of “Hurun China: Top 20 Most Beautiful International School Campuses” (2022). Significance: Hurun's 2022 recognition for campus aesthetics appears on the school site as an institutional honour.
Fettes College Guangzhou (FCG) is a 15-year continuous K–12 school established as a joint project between Fettes College (UK) and Country Garden Education; the Guangzhou campus began recruiting internationally in 2020. The school runs an early-years programme built on the IB PYP framework combined with EYFS, a bilingual primary and middle programme that integrates the Chinese national curriculum (CNC) with the IB MYP, and a senior programme offering Cambridge IGCSE and A-Level pathways. The campus is located in Zengcheng (Phoenix City) on a large, forested site about one hour by car from central Guangzhou and Baiyun Airport. Boarding provision is a named feature of school life and the school operates a bilingual (Chinese/English) instructional model across grades. For full details and source pages, see the linked school pages cited below.
