The Mayor’s Office of Bogotá is committed to improving the educational level in public schools in the city, through the implementation of the international baccalaureate, an alternative that is gaining more and more strength in schools in Colombia.
in dialogue with RCN Radio, Mauricio Castillo, Undersecretary of Quality and Relevance of the Bogotá Ministry of Education, commented that “this is an innovative bet for official schools. Many private institutions have this program, which is why it is a city bet that ten schools are going to start the international baccalaureate at the average level”.
He added that it is “an opportunity for students to enhance their abilities, their critical thinking, their innovation, their ventures, they will be much more autonomous students.”
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This implementation marks the closing of educational gaps for schools in the capitalthrough a model that is gaining more and more strength in private schools in Colombia.
According to the figures provided by the International Baccalaureate Organization (OBI)Currently, more than 5,600 schools in 160 countries around the world offer the International Baccalaureate (IB).
Of that number, 48% of schools are official. In Colombia, 61 schools have IB, of which only one of them is public, It is located in the city of Cali and began its process in 2014.
