Neuchâtel Junior College
Neuchâtel Junior College (or NJC) is a private international school located in the French-speaking town of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It is a member of Canadian Accredited Independent Schools.
History
NJC was founded in 1956 by Leonard Wilde, an Englishman who was teaching at a local Swiss school in the 1950s.
Wilde travelled to Canada, and taught at Shawnigan Lake School, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, to become acquainted with the Canadian school system and Canadian students. He was able to recruit the college's first 42 students from Canada in 1956.
NJC is a one-year school accepting 60 to 80 students in their final pre-university year to study the Enriched Ontario Grade 12 curriculum as well as Advanced Placement.[1]
Classes at Neuchâtel Junior College are taught in English, but each student is required to take at least one French course. In addition to this, students live with local families.
Notable alumni
- Sarah Carter, actress
- Jennifer Stoddart, Canadian Privacy Commissioner (2003 to 2013)
- Marc Kielburger, co-founder of Free the Children
- Anthony Lacavera, founder of Globalive and Wind Mobile
See also
- EF Education
- MEI Academy
References
- ^ CRA Magazine
External links
- Neuchâtel Junior College
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International schools in Switzerland
- SIS Swiss International School (Suhr) (Kindergarten only)
- Neuchâtel Junior College[note 2]
- Istituto Leonardo da Vinci (Lugano)[note 2]
- Istituto Elvetico Salesiani Don Bosco (Lugano)[note 2]
- The American School In Switzerland (Collina d'Oro-Montagnola)[note 2]
- École française de Lausanne-Valmont[note 2]
- Lycée Pareto (Lausanne)[note 2]
- Brillantmont International School (Lausanne)[note 2]
- Collège Champittet (Pully)[note 2]
- Haut-Lac International Bilingual School[note 2]
- International School of Lausanne (Le Mont-sur-Lausanne)[note 2]
- Knightsbridge Schools International Switzerland SA (Morges)[note 2]
- La Côte International School (Aubonne)[note 2]
- Kumon Leysin Academy of Switzerland[note 2]
- Leysin American School[note 2]
- St George's School in Switzerland (Montreux)[note 2]
- Surval Montreux[note 2]
- Collège Champittet (Nyon)[note 2]
- Institut Le Rosey (Rolle)[note 2]
- Aiglon College (Villars-sur-Ollon)[note 2]
- Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil (Villars-sur-Ollon)[note 2]
- Lycée français Marie Curie de Zurich (Dübendorf)[note 6][note 2]
- Liceo Vermigli (Zürich)[note 6][note 2]
- International School Zurich North (Zürich)[note 6][note 2]
- Japanese School in Zürich (Uster)
- Inter-Community School Zürich (Zumikon)[note 6][note 2]
- SIS Swiss International School (Männedorf, Winterthur, Zürich-Wallisellen, Zürich-Wollishofen)
- Zurich International School (Adliswil, Wädenswil)[note 6][note 2]
List by far not complete
- ^ a b c Not approved as Gymnasium (upper secondary education) by the bureau for gymnasial and vocational education MBA (Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt MBA), administration for education (Erziehungsdirektion), canton of Berne
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap Not approved as Mittelschule/Collège/Liceo by the Swiss Federal State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
- ^ Not approved neither as Volksschule (Kindergarten, primary and lower secondary education), nor as Mittelschule by the administration of education (Erziehungsdirektion), canton of Basel-Stadt
- ^ Not approved as Mittelschule (upper secondary education) by the bureau for gymnasial education (Amt für Mittelschulen), department of education (Bildungsdepartement), canton of St. Gallen
- ^ Not approved as Sekundarstufe II (upper secondary education) by the bureau for gymnasial and pedagogic education (Amt für Mittelschulen und Pädagogische Hochschule), administration for education (Bildungsdirektion), canton of Zug
- ^ a b c d e f Not approved as Mittelschule by the bureau for gymnasial and vocational education (Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt), administration of education (Bildungsdirektion), canton of Zürich.
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