Speaking to María Delgado Álvarez on the phone from the small city of Huesca, Spain, it’s clear that she has a global outlook when it comes to her studies. “If people here go to university, they go to local universities to study humanities. When you tell anyone that you want to study pure mathematics, they look at you with a strange expression,” she says. But thanks to King’s InterHigh – an online school – and its International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP), Delgado Álvarez is part of an international cohort, has friends around the world, and she has her sights firmly set on the world’s top universities.
Since studying for the IBDP – which is a two-year course – at King’s InterHigh, “traditional” school feels like a distant memory to Delgado Álvarez. “I was enrolled in a bricks and mortar school in my city,” she says. “But online school is so much better. There’s an innovative approach using emerging technologies, and having an international class means we interact with different cultures and beliefs, and we all have different areas of interest. That’s better than all being from the same place.”
