The German School Jakarta (German: Deutsche Schule Jakarta), often informally referred to as DSJ, is a German international school in the BSD community of South Tangerang in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia. It offers comprehensive education from preschool to secondary school.
The school was formerly known as the German International School Jakarta (German: Deutsche Internationale Schule Jakarta, informally DIS Jakarta), and moved into its newly built campus in BSD in 1998.
The Global Jaya School (GJS) is an international school in Indonesia, located in the outskirts of Jakarta in Pondok Aren district, South Tangerang in the Sector 9 Bintaro Jaya area. The school was established in 1995. It is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School. The school was also previously known as "Sekolah Global Jaya" (SGJ) and "Global Jaya International School" (GJIS). Since the presidency of Joko Widodo in Indonesia, the school is now known as "Global Jaya School".
Global Jaya School offers three International Baccalaureate programmes: the Primary Years Programme, Middle School Programme, and Diploma Programme. The school is a non-denominational community.
United World College of the Atlantic (UWC Atlantic), commonly known by its former name Atlantic College, is an independent boarding school in Llantwit Major in Wales. Founded in 1962, it was the first of the United World Colleges and was among the first educational institutions in the world to follow an international curriculum. It helped create the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in the 1960s.
It is attended by approximately 350 students from more than 90 countries, with students including refugees and victims of war, members of persecuted communities, and members of royal families and political dynasties from around the world. The majority of its students are selected internationally through their National Committees which facilitate nationwide selection processes across the world in over 120 countries, and help fund student education through partial or full scholarships. Over 65% of students who apply through these national committees receive some form of scholarship or financial aid awards.
A European School (Latin: Schola Europaea) is a type of international school emphasising a multilingual and multicultural pedagogical approach to the teaching of nursery, primary and secondary students, leading to the European Baccalaureate as their secondary leaving qualification. Each European School is set up, financed, and operated by the international organisation, the "European Schools", controlled jointly by the member states of the European Union and the European Commission. The schools prioritise, for enrolment purposes, the children of EU staff.
The first European School, founded in Luxembourg, in 1953, had the objective of providing an education to the children of employees of the institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community — a forerunner of today's European Union. Originally, a private initiative of employees of the ECSC, the concept attracted the attention of EU founding father, Jean Monnet as capturing the spirit of the post-war effort to reconcile and integrate Europe.