Odyssey International School

If you've been looking into international schools in Hoi An or Da Nang, you may have noticed us calling Odyssey an "IB Candidate School" and wondered how that's different from an "IB World School." It's a fair question, so here's the short answer. The Simple Version An IB World School has been officially approved by the International Baccalaureate to teach its programmes. An IB Candidate School, which is what Odyssey International School is right now, is a school that's actively working...

If you're new to international school research, you've probably hit a wall of acronyms—PYP, MYP—and wondered if you need a translator. You don't. Once you see the idea behind them, it clicks fast: the IB isn't a collection of separate programmes. It's one continuous educational philosophy delivered in stages, with each stage building directly on the one before it. What Stays the Same Throughout Every IB stage—whether a student is 3 or 16—is built around the same two threads: The IB Learner...

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