Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden (SVOBE; "Foundation for the Advancement of Secondary Education Windward Islands") is a nonprofit organisation that operates two secondary schools on
Sint Maarten
Sint Maarten () is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of , it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the north ...
: Milton Peters College (MPC) in
South Reward and Sundial School in
Philipsburg. They are both subsidised by the Sint Maarten government.
[School Directory ]
" Sint Maarten Government. Retrieved on February 28, 2018.
Milton Peters has
HAVO
''Hoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs'' (havo, meaning "higher general continued education" in Dutch) is a stream in the secondary educational system of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Suriname. It has five grades and is generally attended at ...
(Senior General Secondary Education),
VWO (pre-university), and VSBO (preparatory secondary vocational education) classes; the third includes PKL (practically oriented framework), PBL (practically oriented basic training), TKL classes (theoretical framework).
[ The HAVO, VWO, and VSBO-TKL classes are all Dutch medium while other departments have English and Dutch medium classes. MPC is the largest secondary school in Sint Maarten.][Milton Peters College: 40 Years and Still Ticking Strong]
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''. April 8, 2017. p. 12. MPC is the only Sint Maarten secondary school with a Dutch pre-university programme.Welcome to HAVO/VWO
" Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden. Retrieved on March 3, 2018.
History
SVOBE was established on February 20, 1974.
[History]
" Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden. Retrieved on March 3, 2018. SVOBE was created as the neutral governing body for a new school created by the merger of the government secondary school John Phillips School and the Catholic secondary school Pastoor Nieuwen Huis School.
[History Sundial School]
" Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden. Retrieved on March 3, 2018. MPC, which began construction in 1974, opened on August 17, 1976.
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The predecessor of Sundial, School for Home Economics, opened in 1966. It became a part of SVOBE in 1976.][
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References
External links
Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden
Education in Sint Maarten
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