IB Career-related Programme

*DPS International is a candidate school for the Career-related Programme.

IBCP is designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in their chosen career fields. It offers a blend of academic coursework and practical experiences, ensuring that students are well-prepared for the demands of the job market.

The CP’s flexible educational framework allows schools to meet the needs, backgrounds and contexts of students. CP students engage with a rigorous study programme that genuinely interests them while gaining transferable and lifelong skills.

The CP provides a comprehensive educational framework that combines highly regarded and internationally recognized courses, from the IB Diploma Programme (DP), with a unique CP core and an approved career-related Studies(CRS).

The CP develops students to be:

• academically strong
• skilled in a practical field
• critical and ethical thinkers
• self-directed
• collaborative
• resilient and determined
• confident and assured
• caring and reflective
• inquirers

The CP enables students to:

• follow their chosen education and career pathways in life
• combine academic subjects with their personal and professional interests and skills
• engage in learning that makes a positive difference to their community
• think critically and creatively
• communicate clearly and effectively in a variety of situations
• work independently and in collaboration with others
• consider new perspectives and other points of view
• develop greater self-confidence and self-awareness
• demonstrate high levels of resilience and flexibility
• be internationally-minded and globally aware
• apply their knowledge to real-world scenarios and situations.

A key element of the International Baccalaureate® Career-related Programme (CP), the CP core enhances student’s personal and interpersonal development, with an emphasis on experiential learning.

The CP core bridges the IB academic courses and the career-related study and provides students with a combination of academic and practical skills. The following four interrelated components form the core.

Personal and professional skills is designed for students to develop attitudes, skills and strategies to be applied to personal and professional situations and contexts now and in the future. In this course the emphasis is on skills development for the workplace, as these are transferable and can be applied in a range of situations.

Service learning is the development and application of knowledge and skills towards meeting an identified and authentic community need. In this research-based approach, students often undertake service initiatives related to topics studied previously in their academic disciplines, utilizing skills, understandings and values developed in these studies.

The reflective project is an in-depth body of work produced over an extended period of time and submitted towards the end of the CP. Through a reflective project students identify, analyse, critically discuss and evaluate an ethical issue arising from their career-related studies. The reflective project is intended to promote high-level research, writing and extended communication skills, intellectual discovery and creativity.

Language development ensures that all students have access to a language programme that will assist and further their understanding of the wider world. The ability to communicate in more than one language is essential to the IB’s concept of an international education. Language development encourages students to improve their proficiency in a language other than their best language.

The CP builds on prior learning in the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) and incorporates elements of the IB Diploma Programme, which provides the theoretical underpinning and academic rigour of the CP.

*DPS International is a candidate school* for the Career-related Programme. This school is pursuing authorization as an IB World School. IB World Schools share a common philosophy- a commitment to high-quality, challenging, international education- that we believe is important for our students. Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme (DP), or the Career-related Programme (CP). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes visit www.ibo.org.