The IB was launched in 1968 at the International School of Geneva by a group of pioneering educators, so that secondary-school students whose families frequently moved between places and countries could continue their education with a common curriculum. Today, the IB is a programme in which around 5,000 schools in a total of 150 countries take part, with more than one million students. In Turkey, a total of 69 schools – 3 state schools and 66 private schools – offer the programme. It is a diploma programme taught to 16- to 19-year-olds in secondary education in many countries around the world.
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme was established to create a shared education system worldwide. It is an educational organisation that recognises that people, with all their differences, can also be right; it aims to build a more peaceful world and to educate young people who are inquiring, caring, knowledgeable, open-minded and self-confident, and who embrace lifelong learning.
GIB (Gemischtsprachiges Internationales Baccalaureate) is the name of the diploma programme based on an agreement between the International Baccalaureate Organization and Germany's Zentralstelle für das Auslandsschulwesen (Central Agency for German Schools Abroad), which reports to the German government.
