Global diploma honour
CAIRNS State High School's push to introduce International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme is almost complete.
Representatives of the program start a three-day visit today and principal Trevor Gordon hopes to be able to announce soon Cairns High has secured its status as an IB World School.
"It’s never been offered north of the southeast corner of the state," Mr Gordon said.
"We see it as an opportunity in the senior school for highly motivated students and it offers them another choice of study."
Some year 9 and 10 students had already shown keen interest in the program which the school wants to offer from next year, Mr Gordon said.
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme is a two-year pre-university course which has rapidly gained popularity both in Australia and throughout the world.
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On top: Year 10 Cairns State high students Freya Ireland (left) and Danielle Majer-Kielbaska like a worldly view.
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