IB and courses to take you to top universities

I am at the World IB Headteachers meeting in The Hague this weekend. Universities are increasingly dropping their point scores for IB as they value this qualification a great deal. Kings College London and Leeds are now asking for 35 and Birmingham 32 points. Ofqual - the UK qualifications framework has rated a 7 at IB as equivalent to A* at A level and a 6 as equivanent to an A. You can see why universities get so excited by IB... !

At CATS Cantebury we offer a full range of qualifications including A level, Foundation and IB - all of which have been great qualifications to get students into top universities. Clearly a two year course is always better than spending one year in the UK, but our one year Foundation course was the first ever in the UK and is now nearly 30 years old and sends students to the very top UK universities.

Staff here are always happy to talk about the differences between these three routes to university and remember CATS Canterbury is also an SAT Testing Centre and we prepare students for entry to universities across Canada and the USA too with SAT preparation sessions included as standard!