Sapphire International School

Security The importance of security personnel is fully appreciated in maintaining a safe and carefree environment for the students. Security personnel belonging to a reputed agency are deployed all over the campus on a full time basis and the entry / exit of all members of the school as well as visitors is strictly regulated and constantly monitored. The CCTV cameras have been put everywhere in the campus which are being monitored by the administrators and the IT department. ACADEMIC BLOCK WIFI CAMPUS SMART CLASSROOM Pastoral Care "Home away from home" is how the students living on campus feel during their Sapphire days. The hostels have been specifically designed to provide a warm and caring family-like environment. There are separate hostels for the boys and the girls and all the rooms are air-conditioned accommodating three students with all amenities and attached washrooms giving a feeling of warmth yet maintaining privacy. Beside wing parent, the hostel warden a...

Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata,  the pioneer of state-of-the-art healthcare options in Eastern India has announced the success of the cadaver liver transplant undertaken on 27 July, 2016. Shrimati Madhuri Saha, the 46 year old recipient of the liver, is healthy, and doing well. Shrimati Saha’s troubles had started with complaints of recurrent abdominal pain and discomfort. A detailed investigation at the Institute of Gastrosciences, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, revealed a host of complications, including autoimmune hepatitis, decompensated cirrhosis, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy and hypersplenism. The prognosis was not good, and she was advised to undergo a liver transplant at the earliest. Samar Chakraborty, a 53 year old resident of the city, was brought to the hospital on 26 July, 2016, where he was declared ‘brain dead’ by a panel comprising of doctors from the hospital and the Department of Health, Government of West Bengal. His family agreed to multi-o...

These schools cater mainly to students who are not nationals of the host country, such as the children of the staff of international businesses, international organizations, foreign embassies, missions, or missionary programs. Many local students attend these schools to learn the language of the international school and to obtain qualifications for employment or higher education in a foreign country. The first international schools were founded in the latter half of the 19th century in countries such as Japan, Switzerland and Turkey. Early international schools were set up for families who traveled, like children of personnel of international companies, international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGO), and embassy staff. The schools were established with the people and organizations having large interests in the hosting nation: for instance, American diplomats and missionaries often set up schools to educate their children; children of American military and army fam...