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Activities of IB leavers – six months after leaving
tertiary studies, IB students (36%) are almost twice
as likely as their A level and equivalent peers
(18.8%) to pursue further study full time, and more
likely to be employed in graduate level jobs and in
higher paid occupations than A level and equivalent
leavers. A greater proportion of IB than A level
leavers are employed within professional, scientific
and technical activities.
Salaries of full-time employed IB leavers – the
median annual salary of IB leavers in full-time paid
employment was higher than that of A level and
equivalent leavers.
Broadening access
The regional office is committed to meeting the
education needs of a diverse community of schools
and to improving access to high-quality education
for students around the region. In order to achieve
this, the regional office works with organizations
such as the Aga Khan Development Network to
develop capacity to facilitate implementation of IB
programmes, to share curricular expertise and to
create opportunities to increase teacher professional
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development in the areas served by the Aga Khan
Development Network, including the training of
teachers in non-IB schools.
The regional office is continually increasing the
languages in which professional development
workshops are delivered and now covers English,
French, German, Spanish and Arabic.
In Romania 30 teachers and 20 school leaders from three
secondary schools participated in a special professional
development course called, ‘Teaching and Learning from
an International Perspective’. The course, that was
spread over nine months, was designed to introduce and
explain the essential elements and methods that are
fundamental to the IB approach.
The intellectual material for the course was designed
by a specialist team from the IB, international
consultants and a team from the Mark Twain
International School of Bucharest, drawing on
contemporary educational research and current IB
pedagogy and methodology. Three secondary schools
were involved in the project and 30 teachers from these
schools attended a first workshop and 30 completed
the course, which included six online workshops and
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