The British Council has announced it will open its second international school in Kuala Lumpur as it looks to develop a small network of schools worldwide.
The announcement was made last week in Malaysia by the UK Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills, Sajid Javid, alongside UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s launch of a “Year of Education” between Malaysia and the UK.
“We are well known across Malaysia for the quality of our English teaching”
British Council Malaysia director, Gavin Anderson, said the opening of the school is a good step forward for the organisation.
“We are well known across Malaysia for the quality of our English teaching, and our broader role in bringing the education worlds of Malaysia and the UK together,” he said.
“Our school will take that work onto a new level, while helping to develop the next generation of Malaysian global citizens and leaders.”
Set to open in 2018, the school will be based in Sentul West in Kuala Lumpur with the capacity to accommodate up to 1,500 students, aged three to 18. The British Council anticipates most of the students will be Malaysian nationals.
Students will learn under a bilingual and bicultural curriculum, based on the National Curriculum of England.
However, modifications will be made in order to include key elements of Malaysian education.
In its statement on schools overseas, the British Council says it is “actively developing plans to open a small network of British Council schools, initially in East Asia, Central Europe and Latin America”.
The Malaysia school will be the second school the British Council operates. The first opened in 1940 in Madrid, Spain.
Accommodating just under 2,000 students, most of whom are Spanish, many graduates of the Madrid school go on to undergraduate and postgraduate study in the UK.
