Talk:International Baccalaureate

message: "The IB is a nonprofit organization,[22] selling its products and services to schools in a system analogous to a franchise network. Schools buy products and services from the IB – assessments, publications, the right to use branding – and in turn schools act as distributors, reselling the products and services to families.[23]"
The comparison to a franchise seems very odd. I don't see this as different than what College Board does with AP, or pretty much how it works when contracting with any educational organization or company. I don't see the same sort of wording on the College Board / AP articles. I don't believe the comparison is appropriate without the same sort of wording being used on other pages related to educational programs. It sounds as if it is significantly different from how agreements with other organizations/companies; of my knowledge, it isn't significantly different. As such, this passage seems misleading.
--2600:1700:2E4F:2C00:607F:26BD:94B4:11FF (talk) 03:07, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization 

message: Is there any difference between the Global Center in Bethesda and the Regional IBA Center in the same city? --Мурад 97 (talk) 13:06, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Centers 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I suggest that this section is removed.
The reason is that there are currently over 4500 schools offering one or more IB programmes and the list provided barely scratches that surface. Instead a link can be added to the IB's Find a World School which would benefit the reader more as it would provide far more current and relevant data than can be found on Wikipedia. This link can be added through prose in the text together with relevant, cited information about the IB's claim for the number of schools. I further suggest that this is trivial criteria for a list in this wiki entry.
It will also prevent the section being used as a promotional page for schools, organisations or individuals. The revision history shows that multiple people edit this by adding one school.
If I don't hear a good argument for retention, I will be bold :D
Candy (talk) 00:31, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the external links, reduced the list to those schools that already have an en-wikipedia article, divided into columns, and added the link to the full list - I think this is manageable - Arjayay (talk) 17:41, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schools Offering International Baccalaureate 

message: I believe that this section should be split into a list article, something like List of International Baccalaureate Schools. It is currently very long, and doesn't seem to serve a purpose for people reading the article; therefore it would be more useful as a separate article, where readers looking for such a list will find it. Yeenosaurus  (talk) 🍁 09:13, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Shouldn't the list be titled "List of International Baccalaureate World Schools"? They are called IB World Schools. — bieχχ (talk) 08:42, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Split of "Schools Offering International Baccalaureate"

message: I would like to remind all users to reference all new information, following Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. Change.org is not a reliable source (accusations of fake signatures, for example) and has been blacklisted (so no content on Wikipedia can link to this site), so please do not add petition information from Change.org in the article. Threedotshk (talk) 07:15, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, let's not see the the 2020 mess again. This article isn't the place for POV edits by students who are unhappy about the effect of the pandemic. Everyone is in the same boat. Keep the changes sourced and neutral. For example,  a newspaper interview with four students is not evidence that "hundreds of thousands" of students are concerned for  their "mental and physical health, safety, the comparative inefficacy of online learning, and having been bereaved of family members", and wed don't need to use language such as the "unrelenting exacerbation of the Coronavirus Pandemic". Meters (talk) 20:18, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: And what the UK chooses to do with their (non-IB) exams has nothing to do with this article. Meters (talk) 00:53, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  May 2021 exams