Students of Greensprings School, Lekki Lagos who passed through the two year International Baccalaureate diploma programme have received a $4.7 million worth of scholarship from top universities and colleges across the world to pursue their university degrees.
This is the second consecutive year that students of Greensprings school have won a huge amount of money from scholarships as in 2019, a different set was awarded a sum of $1.3 million worth of scholarships.
Olubunmi Solola, Dean of IB Diploma of the school, while reacting to the news stated that management of the school is extremely happy that this year our students got almost four times the amount of last years’ scholarships.
Solola opines that this accomplishment shows why a growing number of students all over the world are ditching A-level schools for IB Diploma schools, as reported in the Independent newspaper.
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Some of the world’s top tertiary institutions that Greensprings School IB Diploma students are admitted into include; the University of Manchester, King’s College London, University of Leeds, University of Alberta, University of Toronto, University of Warwick among others.
According to Solola, “Our IB Diploma students were admitted to the universities and colleges and students attained such a high level of success because of the robustness of the programme.
The Dean of IB Diploma of Greensprings school further said that by the standard of IBO (the organisation in charge of IB Diploma), aside from learning the main subjects, students are groomed to acquire essential life skills such as discipline, confidence, self- motivation, time management, among others.
Unlike A-level schools in Lagos and across Nigeria, IB Diploma schools expose students to three core elements of its rich curriculum. These elements are Theory of knowledge (TOK), which helps students reflect on the nature of knowledge and on how they know what they claim to know; The extended essay, which is an independent, self-directed piece of research, finishing with a 4,000-word paper; and Creativity, activity, service (CAS), which is a community service project.
Going through these core elements of the IB Diploma curriculum prepares the students for life in university; it also makes the world’s top universities and colleges to prefer students of IB Diploma over students of other post-secondary-school programmes.
