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Ann Puntis, CEO
Ann Puntis has extensive experience in education and assessment. She obtained a BSc (Econ) with First Class Honours at Cardiff University and proceeded to research at the University of Oxford.
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Sasha Sahni
Student at Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai
“Along with providing a strong foundation for higher education, Cambridge IGCSE widened my horizons and enhanced my thinking prowess.”
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Facts & figures
- CIE is the world’s largest provider of international qualifications for 14–19 year olds
- Over 6,000 schools in 150 countries ran CIE courses in 2006
- CIE is part of the world-renowned University of Cambridge
- Each year we have around 1.5 million subject entries for Cambridge exams
- CIE candidate ages range from 5 to over 70
- CIE was the first board to develop IGCSE, which celebrated its 20th birthday in September 2005
- We produce around 5.7 million question papers each year (1.5 million for the June session and 4.2 million for November)
- Over 2 million scripts for general qualifications are marked by CIE each year
- CIE holds more than 16,000 training days a year, providing 6,500 teachers from across the globe with the skills and knowledge they need to help their students succeed
- In 2008, CIE will celebrate the 150th anniversary of our parent organisation, Cambridge Assessment
- More than 2,000 schools across the world, including more than 250 UK schools, teach Cambridge IGCSE
- Cambridge IGCSE is taken in over 100 countries (there are 350,000 entries a year)
- Cambridge International A and AS Levels are taken in over 100 countries (over 90,000 entries a year)
- CIE is the biggest provider of O Levels in the world and we offer more than 50 International O Level subjects. Every year CIE has 610,000 entries for International O Level from 76 countries
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