International Baccalaureate Diplomas Are Failing to Impress Colleges

Here in Ozark, Missouri, our school board is investing hundreds of thousands of dollars with the promise of better education through an agenda controlled by the United Nations through UNESCO. Dr. Gordon Pace, superintendent, and Chuck Fugate, school board president, promise the International Baccalaureate will better prepare your kids, while ignoring the conflict the UN's agenda may have with your American and Christian values.

Now we have already seen at Springfield, Missouri's Central High School, test scores and graduation rates have dropped over the last three years since Central became the first school in Missouri to offer IB. This is also the school Dr. Pace became an IB believer. Scary, I know.

Now the Mail Online is further confirming a drop in academic performance after students graduated with an IB diploma.

From the Mail Online:

Scores of private school pupils who ditched the A-level to do a new exam have failed to get into university.

Growing numbers of teens are taking the International Baccalaureate diploma because it is said to be better preparation for university.

But dozens got a worse score than predicted and have not met the minimum requirements. They will have to scrap their university ambitions or reapply next year when tuition fees rise from £3,290 to £9,000.

Institutions have received calls from desperate teens, parents and even politicians, blaming the IB for the failure and saying their grades do not reflect ability.

Universities Minister David Willetts has lobbied three universities on behalf of more than a dozen students in his constituency.

One candidate with a conditional offer from Exeter achieved 26 points in the IB, the equivalent of A-level grades BCC, far short of the required ABB – 32 points in the IB.

Universities UK, which represents vice-chancellors, said a ‘number of institutions’ reported problems. Ucas is reviewing the number of points awarded to the IB.

A top result in the IB is the equivalent to six and a half As at A-level.

Meanwhile the results for more than 450 independent schools, published today, show fee-paying pupils passed 19.07 per cent of A-levels at A* this year – more than double the national average of 8.2 per cent.

Some 2,078 pupils gained at least three A* grades. Boys were slightly more likely than girls to achieve a hat-trick of A*s.

More than 80 schools including Eton refused to allow their results to be used in league tables.
Wycombe Abbey in Buckinghamshire topped the table after gaining an A and AS-level score of 531, equivalent to almost AAA across the board.

Meanwhile, Aberdeen University has become the first in Scotland to announce a fee increase for students coming from the rest of the UK.

The decision intensifies the current bitter row over the ‘tuition fee apartheid’ which discriminates against English students.

From 2012 Aberdeen will charge English, Welsh and Northern Irish students £9,000 a year for three years, with the fourth year free.

Scots and students from the rest of the EU will attend free of charge.

The remaining universities are to declare their fees within the next few weeks, with leading institutions such as Edinburgh and St Andrews expected to charge £9,000 for each year of their four year degrees producing a total of £36,000.


I know what you are thinking. That's in England. Well, make note of this. The IB globalist education agenda is the same around the world. The requirements to graduate IB don't change from country to country. If it's not working in the UK and it's not working at Central High School where Dr. Pace came from, who does Dr. Pace think he's fooling that he came make it work at Ozark. In the end, we will learn our tax dollars have been wasted while Ozark Schools compromised our values. It's coming quickly.