Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden

Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden (SVOBE; "Foundation for the Advancement of Secondary Education Windward Islands") is a nonprofit organisation that operates two secondary schools on Sint Maarten: Milton Peters College (MPC) in South Reward and Sundial School in Philipsburg. They are both subsidised by the Sint Maarten government.[1]

Milton Peters has HAVO (Senior General Secondary Education), VWO (pre-university), and VSBO (preparatory secondary vocational education) classes; the third includes PKL (practically oriented framework), PBL (practically oriented basic training), TKL classes (theoretical framework).[1] The HAVO, VWO, and VSBO-TKL classes are all Dutch medium while other departments have English and Dutch medium classes. As of 2017 MPC is the largest secondary school in Sint Maarten.[2] MPC is the only Sint Maarten secondary school with a Dutch pre-university programme.[3]

  1. ^ a b "School Directory ." Sint Maarten Government. Retrieved on February 28, 2018.
  2. ^ "Milton Peters College: 40 Years and Still Ticking Strong." The Daily Herald. April 8, 2017. p. 12.
  3. ^ "Welcome to HAVO/VWO." Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden. Retrieved on March 3, 2018.