Dmitriy Kolesnichenko, from Kazakhstan, was excelling at school and achieving top marks in all his subjects – but he wanted to challenge himself even further. So he started to look into the International Baccalaureate (IB), an academically challenging diploma programme, where students study six subjects.
His family couldn’t afford an expensive school for him, which is when he discovered King’s InterHigh, an online school that launched the world’s first online IB in 2022. “I wanted to study for this diploma because I heard it was the most challenging one,” says Kolesnichenko, 18. “Then I found out there was an opportunity to do it online, and it was wonderful because of the [lower] costs.”
