Sedbergh Vietnam

A bilingual British international school operating in partnership with Sedbergh School in the UK, on a 13,000 square metre purpose-built campus in District 7 originally launched as the Bilingual Canadian International School in 2012.

The school sits inside EQuest Education Group and pivoted from its Canadian bilingual identity to a Sedbergh-branded UK partnership announced in late 2023. The programme covers Cambridge IGCSE, A Level and Cambridge Advanced alongside the Vietnamese national curriculum, with a bilingual stream and an international stream that families choose between depending on their long-run plan. Accreditations include COGNIA, CIS and WASC, and the campus is built to take up to 1,500 students.

Recent parent and student feedback describes friendly teachers, modern facilities and good labs, court and library provision, with character education framed around courage, compassion and curiosity. The harder edge of the feedback is around management consistency, teacher recruitment and event planning, which is the typical ground-tone for a school still bedding in a new identity and operator partnership. Worth a careful campus visit and pointed questions about staff stability.

• The school sits in the bilingual segment of Ho Chi Minh City rather than the international tier, and most of its public-facing signal since the 2022 ownership change is negative.
• Teachers describe a chaotic period after the takeover by EQuest, including high turnover, unclear pay structures, capped salaries and a CEO directive on dress code, AI competency and English fluency that has been mocked publicly.
• One former staff member writes that capped salaries and slow insurance claims, especially for mental health, made the package weaker than it looks on paper.
• Parent and student reviews on aggregators are sparse and tepid: facilities and food described as adequate, some teachers friendly, but management, recruitment and event organisation called out as needing work.