The Diploma Programme has proved to be a significant item on the varied menu of opportunities available to students at Broadgreen High School since it became the first IB World School in Liverpool in 1992. We apply no entry restrictions or special requirements regarding access to the Diploma Programme. In May 2005 there were 64 Diploma Programme students at our school and everyone who applied for a university place that year succeeded in obtaining one.
In response to local interest in widening access to the Diploma Programme, representatives of Broadgreen, the IB and the Liverpool local education authority devised a creative approach by designating Broadgreen a “mentor school”. This new concept, implying intervention but not interference, has created partner schools around Liverpool, mentored by us and working towards the goal of becoming IB World Schools at the end of the five-year period. This Merseyside project is informing all parties of fresh ways of promoting greater access to IB programmes, and is sure to leave a positive and lasting legacy to the students of the city of Liverpool.
