MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATION
FAIRVIEW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Nestled contentedly within the tropical outskirts of the capital city is Fairview International School Kuala Lumpur, the first International Baccalaureate (IB) World School in Malaysia to offer a continuum of international education making available all three challenging IB programmes to pupils aged 3 to 19 (Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma Programme).
Established in 1978, Fairview was founded by a group of like-minded parents seeking greater educational opportunities for their children. From humble beginnings and only a handful of students, Fairview International school is now a home away from home for over 2000 students in five schools across Malaysia, representing students from 55 different nations.
Four of these schools are IB World Schools; two of which only offers the Primary and Middle Years while the remaining two offer all 3 IB programmes. This includes the college level IB Diploma Programme renowned for its rigorous and diverse capacity. It commands preferentiality with its average grade score of only 30 out of 45 to be already equivalent to 2A* and 1B at GCE A Levels.
(data obtained from UCAS website, as of July 2015; taken from http://www.ucas.com/how-it-all-works/explore-your-options/entry-requirements/tariff-tables).
Fairview’s commitment to professional development has long always included trainings and workshops to share best practices within education and the IB context. Furthermore, Fairview also sponsors various programmes for teachers and administrators with an elemental requirement of the Cambridge Diploma for Teaching and Learning (CIDTL).
However, not content with only providing quality education, it attained university status as Fairview International University College thereby also serving as a research institute. This encourages the boundaries for not just the IB programme but education itself to be pushed; through a tailored postgraduate programme with Sheffield Hallam University (Sheffield, UK) with a Master of Arts (MA) in Education. Through this, teachers are sponsored by Fairview to carry out data-driven research on teaching practice(s) of their own interest thereby advancing and contributing to the field of educational research. Furthermore, teachers seeking to be industry leaders in their field of choice progress towards a sponsored Doctor of Education (EdD).
Additionally Fairview, as one of 23 universities in the world (as of 2015), is privileged to be recognised by the IB Organisation to offer a course as part of its professional development that lead to the IB Professional Educator Certificates. Furthermore, out of those 23 universities, only 14 universities (Fairview as one of them) are certified where its graduates of its Masters Programme are eligible for further certification from the IB Organisation; the IB Advanced Certificate in Teaching and Learning Research. This recognises teachers not just as IB practitioners but as an academic and researcher with the IB Organisation.
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