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Porto
Two Porto climates: CLIP’s Cambridge house on Rua de Vila Nova, and OBS — British then IB — on Rua da Cerca. Same city. Almost no Monday. Time Foz and Parque Real.
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Porto schools, two English Tuesdays that are not the Cascais line
Porto is not a suburb of Lisbon. CLIP is Cambridge on Rua de Vila Nova. OBS is British then IB on Rua da Cerca. Same city. Almost no Monday. Ask which paper the child will hold.
15 minIB, A-Levels, Bac, Abitur: a friendly decoder
The letters on the leaver’s certificate matter. They are not the whole child. Here is how to tell them apart without a headache, and without pretending every door stays open.
16 minHow to choose a school without losing the plot
You do not need a perfect algorithm. You need a few true things about your child, a boring list on the fridge, and the courage to ignore a beautiful campus that does not fit.
15 minHow to read a European school fee PDF without being sold
Tuition is the number on the homepage. The PDF is the number that arrives in March. Here is how to read the second one, without inventing a euro, a krona, or a deadline.