Years 12 and 13
BMIS is the only school in Malawi to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma. This is a rigorous, academic, two-year pre-university programme designed to facilitate the mobility of students and to promote international understanding. Over 2,000 schools worldwide offer the Diploma and it is recognised in 75 countries.
A successful IB student will apply to universities and colleges round the world with advantages over students who have taken less intensive programmes. Below is an introductory video about the IB Diploma at BMIS:
Diploma students follow the DP Core and six subject groups.
Made up of three required components the Diploma core broadens students’ educational experience and challenges them to apply their knowledge and skills.
Creativity, action, service: students complete a project related to all three elements
The extended essay: a 4,000-word independent piece of academic research
Theory of knowledge: students reflect on the nature of knowledge
In the current year BMIS provides these subjects:
Studies in language and literature
English Language and Literature (Higher and Standard Levels)
English Literature (Higher and Standard Levels)
School-supported self-taught Literature mother tongue (Standard Level)
Language acquisition
French B (Higher and Standard Levels)
Spanish B (Higher and Standard Levels)
Individuals and societies
Business Management (Standard and Higher Level)
Global Politics (Standard and Higher Level)
History (Higher Level and Standard Level)
Sciences
Biology (Higher and Standard Levels)
Chemistry (Higher and Standard Levels)
Environmental Systems and Societies ((Standard Level)
Physics (Higher and Standard Levels)
Mathematics
Mathematics: analysis and approaches (Higher and Standard Levels)
Mathematics: application and interpretation (Higher and Standard Levels)
The arts
Visual Arts (Higher and Standard Levels)
BMIS has Psychology (Higher Level) delivered by an IB-approved on-line course provider. See pamojaeducation.com for other on-line subjects available at BMIS.