Congratulations to CGS graduates for the excellent results in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme examinations. We also thank the IB DP faculty for their important role in our students’ success. 96.7% of CGS candidates were awarded the IB Diploma as compared to 77.4% awarded worldwide CGS students averaged an overall score of 35.1 as compared to the worldwide average of 29.6 34.5% of CGS students received 38 points and higher, a...
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In collaboration with the Inter-university – Inter-department Masters Programme ‘Debating, Human Sciences and Education’. The effective use of the principles of communication, persuasion strategies, and speech and message decoding techniques are essential elements in education concerning: structured thinking comprehensive reasoning the development of logic the recognition, control and correct management of falsehoods during interactions. ...
Katherine K. Merseth, Professor and Senior Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School, recently visited CGS for the fourth time and on this occasion conducted a workshop on Leading Schools in the 21st Century. The workshop took place on Tuesday 16 April and addressed department coordinators and CGS heads from all educational levels. Through an interactive workshop, Ms. Merseth analysed the different types of leadership in education, poi...
The Global Issues Network (GIN) club at CGS participated at the annual GIN Euro conference in Luxembourg on 27-30 March, 2019. During the conference, the club at our school delivered a presentation entitled Special with Potential. The presentation dealt with a sensitive social issue regarding people with special needs. In particular, our students described various types of physical and mental disabilities, highlighted the difficulties people with...
In collaboration with Anatolia College, John Hopkins University and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, CGS will be an examination center for the Center for Talented Youth (CTY Greece) for the third consecutive year. The Center for Talented Children / CTY Greece comes under the auspices of both the Ministries of Education of Greece and Cyprus and was created through the partnership of the American College of Anatolia of Thessaloniki with the US John...
Last week, MYP 4 students Maria Violetta Lopez-Ibanez, Christos Mousakis and Despina Petrou represented CGS brilliantly at the final round of the World Scholar’s Cup Tournament of Champions at Yale University, where this year’s theme was “An Entangled World.” The CGS Team competed alongside 2,300 students from 58 countries in Team Debate, Collaborative Writing, the Scholar’s Bowl and the Scholar’s Challenge covering 6 different discip...
On Wednesday, October 17th, the IB Diploma Programme at CGS welcomed senior admissions representatives from member universities of the World Class Study in London (WCSiL) Consortium - Imperial College London, London School of Economics, King’s College London and University College London. Over 100 guests including students, parents and educators from CGS and other schools in Athens, attended a most informative evening including a presentation o...
MAY 2018 – RESULTS Received the IB Diploma 93% Average IB Score 34.2 First Choice University 96% Top 100 University 28% UK University 57% England & Wales: Scotland: 69%31% EU University 32% USA/Canada University 11% Total Scholarship Awards (USA & Canada) $552,000 Degree /45 ΕΙΔΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ ΠΡΟΤΙΜ. ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ 44 Biomedical Engineering 1η Imperial College London 43 Economics and Mathematics 1η D...
Biomedical technology is a rapidly growing industry with unlimited practical applications in the professional field and thus in the real world. The 2nd CGS Biomedical Engineering Summer Course is an educational programme. Organized by a Greek school for the first time, it is a continuation of last year's very successful programme. The programme is offered in collaboration with the Research & Development department of CGS with the 1st ENT Clin...
For the sixth consecutive year, the students of the Global Issues Network (GIN) club represented our school and our country at the annual GIN conference in Luxembourg on 7 -10 March 2018. The topic of the conference this year was Facilitating Sustainable Change with Environmental and Social Initiatives. Initially, the GIN team presented a series of actions which the group had carried out after the end of last year's conference, inspiring students...
