Auckland International College (often abbreviated AIC) is a private coeducational secondary school in Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

. It adopts the IB Diploma Programme

IB Diploma Programme

The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme is a two-year educational programme for students aged 16–19that provides an internationally accepted qualification for entry into higher education, and is recognised by universities worldwide. It was developed in the early to mid-1960s in Geneva by...

 as its sole curriculum. It also offers a Preparation Year Programme for IB Diploma course (Year 11) to allow students to prepare for the IB curriculum. Students in the Preparation Year programme can get a taste of all of the school's subject offerings. Activities, sports and a research project of 2,000 words form part of the Preparation Year programme. The school runs with a Northern Hemisphere timetable, as the school year commences in July, and students sit their final IB examinations in May.

AIC has a sister school, the AICJ Oshu Gakuen in Hiroshima

Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...

, Japan, set up by the Oshu Corporation in April 2006.

History

• July 2003: AIC is established with the funding of the Oshu Corporation Japan; Carolyn Solomon is appointed as Principal.
• January 2006: Craig Monaghan takes over as Principal of AIC; Carolyn Solomon moves into the role of Executive Principal.
• December 2006: Craig Monaghan resigns as Principal; Roger Lewis is Acting Principal from January to April 2007.
• April 2007: Anne Willmann is appointed as AIC's new Principal.
• 2009: Agnes Chan is appointed as AIC's President.