Starting from 2008 the IB is a business partner of IB Mthiebi School. The IB Germany and IB Mthiebi are strong and reliable partners when it comes to receiving a higher education and a professional school arrangement. The IB Group and IB Mthiebi share common values and standards of quality and understandings of education and pedagogy. IB Mthiebi is a great example of successful international cooperation. IB serves for sustainable and long-term human development.
The aim of the IB is to give young people opportunities for proper education and development, as well as to create professional perspectives on the labor market. To maintain growing interest, we focus on quality: we evaluate our success based on test scores, identify challenges, and by taking the results into account we take the necessary steps to refine goals for quality improvement and further plans development.
Leila Becker, 36 years old, Manager of Global the IB Affiliates
Leila Becker (Education – Business Administration) is the authorized Manager of IB Mthiebi since September 2020. She has been working in the German IB Group at various positions in the headquarters of Frankfurt am Main for more than 10 years. Currently, she is the Manager of Global Affiliates and is responsible for the IB operations in China, Georgia, and Poland. Taking into account the duties of this position, she is the contact person of IB Mthiebi, which includes handling financial and administrative cooperation issues with the IB Group in Germany and worldwide. She and Nino Chikvaidze create a vision for the future activities and cooperation of schools for the purpose of strategic development of the IB Group.
Contact Info: Leila.Becker@ib.de
Carola Becker, 58 years old, is a member of the IB Board.
Carola Becker (Education – Business Administration) is a qualified social pedagogue. She is a member of the IB Board, therefore, is responsible for international cooperation. She has been working at IB since 1991, and she started as the director of the IB Hirschfeld (Upper Lusatia). During her time there, she expanded the rehabilitation facility in Hirschfeld and established a vocational school that was subordinated to IB. From 2005 to 2013 she was the Managing Director of IB Dresden and in 2011 she became the Managing Director of the IB Beteiligungs-und Verwaltungs-GmbH (the IB Investment and Administrative LLC). As the Managing Director, she has implemented several structural reforms in Saxony, expanding activities of IB in the region and beyond for the purpose of facilitating international operations of the IB.
IB Group and IB Mthiebi
IB Mthiebi has a long history in the IB family. Since 2008 the IB has been a business partner of the IB Mthiebi School. The IB Germany and IB Mthiebi are strong and reliable partners when it comes to receiving higher education and professional schooling. The IB Group and IB Mthiebi share common values and standards of quality and understandings of education and pedagogy. IB Mthiebi is a great example of international cooperation. It quickly became one of our most successful affiliates in the IB Group.
The Internationaler Bund, IB Group
With almost 14,000 employees, the Internationaler Bund (IB) is one of the largest supporters of youth and social and educational activities in Europe. Their motto is to empower people.
The IB has established more than 700 facilities and branches in 300 different locations around the world that help 350,000 children, teens, adults, and seniors to plan careers and personal life each year and offer a wide range of services. The IB Group is an apolitical organization. For the purpose of international promotion, it helps people to develop without any restrictions, to form their own lives, to integrate into society, to take personal responsibility, to actively contribute to the development of society, to encourage the desire for individual and social support. Mutual understanding and cooperation have been key factors since its foundation in 1949 and this motto remains valid even now.
Our Vision: Strengthening Being Human
Since its foundation in 1949, the IB has been committed to helping people. Shortly after the end of the war countless young people were orphaned, unsheltered, and unemployed. Many of them had never gone to school and had no future prospects. The Internationaler Bund (IB) for Cultural and Social Work, as it was called at the time, set itself the goal of supporting young people.
The main message of the IB has not changed since then. At the IB, we are committed to people, regardless of their background, social status, or past experience. The IB serves for sustainable and long-term human development. Each person is considered as enrichment and an important part of society. In its vision, the IB seeks to eliminate any barriers in both human and community life and to give everyone the right to develop freely, to take responsibility, and to actively contribute to the development of society. Our Vision: Strengthening Being Human.
Our Commitment
The IB-Group is an independent non-governmental organization in the fields of youth and social work, education, and labor market services. Our objectives are to help people to develop freely, to shape their own lives, to integrate them into society, to take personal responsibilities; In addition, our objectives also are to actively help shape the development of society, to encourage the willingness to render social support to the individual and the society and to promote international understanding and cooperation. The IB operates on the basis of European social and education policy. The IB offers its expertise and services worldwide.
Education. IB Schools and Universities
The IB considers access to qualified education as the key to a stable and secure future. The IB provides basic, general, vocational, and higher education services. The IB medical academies offer courses for a variety of professions. The aim of all IB schools is to present young people with good opportunities for education and development as well as provide professional prospects in the labor market. In addition to vocational education and training, personality development is a major priority in our schools. In IB schools, in accordance with our mission statement, we also support students in critical circumstances to develop freely, live independent lives, integrate into society, take personal responsibility, and actively participate in the development of society. The schools of the IB in many places are an alternative to public schools, so students (hence their parents) certainly can make choices between different schools to be able to define their own educational processes individually.
“Bridging the gap” – This motto of IB schools offers new opportunities for many: it implies creating chains of education, for example, from vocational preparatory year to vocational training, then to vocational school, which can then be a prerequisite for starting university. IB schools also provide new educational opportunities for less-educated families or late-starters. To maintain a growing interest in IB schools, we focus on quality: we measure our success through test scores, identify challenges, and by considering the results, we take the necessary steps to refine goals for quality improvement and further development plans.
The courses of IB universities and academies are developed in collaboration with the private sector to fully meet the requirements of the labor market. The courses are based on classical, full-time learning and successful German “cooperative education” model, including management and the medical profession.