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Bangalore , Sept. 9

AT a time when the craze for foreign education impels parents to send their children abroad, it is a surprise that a school on the outskirts of Bangalore is becoming a sought after alma mater for foreign students.

It is one of the many international schools, which have sprung up in the last few years in the periphery of the city.

In a short time of three years, The International School, Bangalore (TISB) has not only emerged as an institution seeking to synergise the best practices of the traditional Indian values in education but also in imbibing the excellence in academia and infrastructure to attract students from Germany and other countries which traditionally look to boarding schools in Switzerland or UK.

The reason for this is the placement of its students in leading universities across the globe for higher studies.

Forty-three students in the graduating batch have secured scholarship sums of over Rs 55 lakh per annum and are attending top 20 universities, including Carnegie Melon and Wharton School of Business.

Says Mr Hector MacDonald, Principal of the School, TISB is not an elitist institution as any international school is assumed to be. There are a good mix of pupils from different parts of the country, apart from wards of NRIs' and expatriates from Europe and other countries.

The school offers international curriculum based on International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) and gives importance to extra curricular activities to provide a comprehensive training to children, said Mr MacDonald.Realising the importance of constant upgradation of teaching skills and knowledge in curricula, TISB has formulated a training programme for teachers that will see trainers from King's College and Cambridge visiting TISB during summer for providing personal contact programme as a follow-up to the distance education programme to be launched next year.

This programme can be availed of by teachers from other schools, said Mr MacDonald.

TISB is a unit of the National Academy of Learning (NAFL) with the management running a chain of National Public Schools in Bangalore and Chennai.

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