Wellington College International Tianjin (天津惠灵顿国际学校) is a British international school in
Hongqiao District,
Tianjin
Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popu ...
. It is affiliated with
Wellington College Wellington College may refer to:
*Wellington College, Berkshire, an independent school in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England
** Wellington College International Shanghai
** Wellington College International Tianjin
* Wellington College, Wellington, Ne ...
in
Berkshire, England and serves students 2-18; senior school serves ages 11–18.
[Joining Wellington]
" Wellington College International Tianjin. Retrieved on September 30, 2015.
The school opened in 2011.
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" Wellington College International Tianjin. Retrieved on September 30, 2015. Initially it planned to offer, the initial expected student account was 500, and the school planned to have up to 1,200 students. The school was scheduled to open with A levels and offer IB diplomas after receiving permission from the International Baccalaureate Organisation
The International Baccalaureate (IB), formerly known as the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. It offers four educational programmes: the IB D ...
. A school must already be open before receiving permission to offer IB.[Mansell, Warwick.]
Expat guide to China: schools
. ''The Telegraph
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Australia
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''. 27 April 2011. Retrieved on October 1, 2015.
Campus
The campus has more than 90 classrooms, 2 swimming pools, art rooms, design rooms, a dance studio, a 500-seat theatre, and music rooms. There are also artificial sports pitches.
Demographics
In 2011 Warwick Mansell of ''The Telegraph
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Australia
* ''The Telegraph'' (Adelaide), a newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia, publ ...
'' stated that it was anticipated that the largest group of students would be of East Asian origin, including Mainland Chinese students with foreign passports, Japanese, and Koreans. People from the United Kingdom were expected to make up 15% of the student body and the school also expected to have significant numbers of other European nationalities.
See also
* Wellington College International Shanghai
Wellington College International Shanghai is a co-educational day and boarding school with over 1,100 pupils, aged 3 to 18 years old.
Wellington shares its not-for-profit status and royal foundation with its sister school, Wellington College in ...
- Another Wellington College school in China
* Wellington College Bilingual Shanghai
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by met ...
- Another Wellington College campus in China
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Wellington College International Tianjin
Wellington College International Tianjin
British international schools in China
International schools in Tianjin
International Baccalaureate schools in China
2011 establishments in China
Educational institutions established in 2011
Boarding schools in China
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