COBIS. Council of British International Schools

General Manager:	Mona El Fawal
Headmaster:	Simon O’ Grady
Head of Secondary:	Dr. Charles Wall
Head of Junior:	Mr. Michael Higgins

Age range:

3 - 18

Registration fee:	£ 100 Payable before testing. £ 100 Foundation Stage 1 (FS1) payable upon acceptance.
Annual fees:	£ 2,211 FS2 & Junior Classes £ 2,616 Y7-Y9 £ 2,660 Y10 & Y11 (GCSE)
Refundable deposit:	Refundable deposit variable (see attached fees schedule) Tuition fees are non-refundable except at the school's sole discretion.
Other fees:	TUITION FEE per term £ 2,168 Foundation Stage 1 £ 2,211 FS2 & Junior Classes £ 2,616 Y7-Y9 £ 2,660 Y10 & Y11 (GCSE) £ 2,841 Sixth Form (IB) Yearbook (charged first term) £15

Description

The School was established in 1976 to provide a balanced and challenging education based on British principles and curricula to meet the needs of the children of the expatriate British and Anglo-Egyptian communities; children from the Commonwealth and other countries with educational systems based upon British standards; children of the English-speaking Egyptian community and other nationalities tied to British-type schooling.

The School has over twenty years experience in the International Baccalaureate Diploma programme which provides its students with entrance to universities and colleges worldwide.

BISC is an independent, fee-financed, non-profit Society, authorised by the Ministry of Social Affairs. It is situated in Beverly Hills, 6th October City and boasts an impressive campus on a 65,000m2 site.

Student ages range from 3 year-olds in Foundation Stage to 18 year-olds in the Upper Sixth. Class sizes are from a maximum of twenty-four in the Junior School to twenty in the Senior School and very small groups in the Sixth Form. The overall staff/student ratio is 1:8 The diverse international student body leads to the natural development of goodwill, friendliness, tolerance and understanding among the pupils. The 775 pupils represent over fifty different nationalities