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geomood · Joined: 19 Aug 2009 Posts: 22

Does anyone know anything about teaching at Prepatory schools in KSA? I think this means what in the States we call high-school. I think! I've never been to KSA.
TIA

bedewi · Joined: 30 Sep 2007 Posts: 7

Preparatory schools were introduced last year. It is a year between high school and a student's freshman year of college to -- as the name suggests, prepare them for college level studies.

trapezius · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject:

^ Those are called as "Prep Year", and are not independent schools. OP, are you talking about secondary education, or tertiary education?

Basically, HS education in SA is shyte, so to adequately prepare students before they embark on a university program, almost all universities in SA have a mandatory "prep year" (conducted on campus), or Year 0 if you will, to strengthen students' knowledge of essential subjects, i.e., English and math (and sometimes the sciences and IT as well). So, it is not high school.

However, if you are actually referring to certain [secondary] schools that might be called "prep schools", then I don't know.