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Accredited British education, taught online in Romania

Online school in Romania for ages 4 to 19

Live lessons with subject specialists, International GCSEs and A Levels, and exams written at centres inside Romania.

Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Iasi or a village with decent broadband. The school your child attends is the same in every one of them.

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A secondary school student in Romania working through a live online lesson at home
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Accredited by Cognia and Pearson Edexcel 20 years teaching online Families in more than 100 countries

Why parents here start looking

Four things come up in almost every call

Romanian families rarely arrive because they dislike school. They arrive because of where they live, what it costs, or where their child is trying to get to next.

A student working through an online lesson at the kitchen table
  • The funding

    Romania spends the least in the EU

    Eurostat puts Romanian government spending on education at around 3 per cent of GDP against an EU average of 4.7 per cent, one of the two lowest shares in the bloc. Parents meet that number as class sizes, as buildings and as what a school can offer beyond the syllabus.

  • The map

    British schools stop at the ring road

    Physical British schools cluster in and around Bucharest, with a handful in Timisoara and Cluj. Outside those cities there is nothing within a sensible drive, and a daily commute into the capital is not a plan, it is a sentence.

  • The fees

    Two children is a second mortgage

    Bucharest British school fees run past 21,000 euros a year before deposits, transport and exam entries. For most Romanian households that closes the conversation in the first meeting.

  • The passport

    Where the qualification is read without explanation

    A child aiming at Delft, Maastricht, a Russell Group university or an American campus is read faster with International GCSEs and A Levels behind them. No conversion table, no covering letter about the Romanian system.

What it costs

The same qualifications without the Bucharest fee

Published 2026/27 figures, taken from each school's own fees page rather than a comparison site. Check them yourself before you weigh anything up.

British School of Bucharest

€24,683

Years 7 to 13, a year

Nursery to Year 6 is 21,294 euros. Both sit on top of a 5,789 euro reservation deposit and a 275 euro application fee, with up to 3,674 euros in admissions fees for a first child. Exam entries for Years 10 to 13, transport and most lunches are billed separately.

Cambridge School of Bucharest

€21,400

Year 13, a year

Fees start at 12,900 euros in Nursery and climb by year group, with a one-off 2,200 euro registration fee for new students. Books, uniform, transport and catering sit outside the tuition figure.

CambriLearn

$4,050

Seven International GCSE subjects, Standard, paid upfront

Registration included. Three A Level subjects on the same package come to 1,910 dollars. Premium, which adds direct teacher chat and marked mock examinations, roughly doubles the tuition, and paying in ten instalments rather than upfront adds about 15 per cent. Fees are set per subject, so a child taking five subjects pays for five.

See every fee

Bucharest figures were read from each school's own published 2026/27 fee schedule on 13 September 2026. CambriLearn figures come from our published fee catalogue on the same date and work out at roughly 3,500 and 1,650 euros at September 2026 rates, with a live euro view on the fees page. Schools raise fees and our own rates move by grade, subject count and package, so treat all three columns as a starting point and check the current figure with each school before you compare. Examination entry fees are paid to the centre in every case, including ours.

What the week actually looks like

A timetable, not a folder of worksheets

Online school gets confused with homeschooling, where a parent picks the course and teaches it at the kitchen table. This is the other thing. Qualified teachers plan the lessons, teach them, set the work and mark it. You keep an eye on it.

How the school is put together
  • Live lessons

    Taught, not uploaded

    Subject specialists teach live to a published timetable. Romania keeps the same clock as South Africa through the winter and runs an hour ahead in summer, so lessons land inside the Romanian school day either way. Every lesson is recorded, so a bad week of flu or a competition abroad does not cost your child a topic.

  • Teachers

    Named adults who mark the work

    Every subject is taught by a qualified specialist in that subject. Assessments come back with comments on them rather than a percentage. On the Premium package students message their teacher directly and sit weekly question sessions before exam series.

  • The parent's job

    Closer to a coach than a teacher

    Primary-age children need an adult nearby for an hour or two a day, mostly to keep the morning moving. From secondary onwards the job becomes oversight. Attendance, progress and standing sit in CambriCommand, the parent view, so you are not reconstructing the term from your child's memory of it.

  • Friends

    Built in rather than left to you

    CambriCommunity runs clubs, study groups and live sessions, with in-person meetups through vetted partners. Access is verified-only and age-gated by default. It is included with enrolment, not sold on top.

  • Subjects

    You choose the combination

    Subjects are taken one at a time rather than as a fixed block, so a child can sit seven International GCSEs or three A Levels and pay for exactly that. Package tiers can be mixed across subjects, so the difficult one gets Premium support and the rest do not.

Qualifications and exam centres

Your child writes the exams in Romania

Two British pathways run from Romania. Both finish in qualifications that universities read without needing them explained.

International British Curriculum

Primary through Lower Secondary, International GCSE, AS Level and A Level. Students prepare for examinations set by Cambridge Assessment International Education and write them at independently registered centres as private candidates.

The full stage-by-stage pathway

Pearson Edexcel

International GCSE, International AS Level and International A Level, recognised in more than 120 countries and carrying full UCAS weight. The sciences run without laboratory practicals, which is the detail that makes the pathway work from home.

Subjects and exam series

Where they are written

Approved centres sit inside Romania. IBSB in Bucharest publishes itself as an accredited Cambridge and Edexcel centre, and the British International School of Timisoara holds both approvals. Centre policy on outside candidates varies by school and by series, so we confirm a centre and a seat with you before you enrol rather than after.

Exam centres by region

Entries open several months before each series and centres set their own deadlines, so contact one four to five months ahead of the window your child is aiming at. Examination fees are paid to the centre and sit outside CambriLearn tuition.

Who enrols from Romania

Six families we meet again and again

Not a persona exercise. These are the situations that come up most often when a Romanian parent books a call.

Families outside Bucharest

Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Brasov, Iasi, Constanta or a village an hour from anywhere. There is no British school within reach, and relocating the household for a school place is not on the table.

Children aiming abroad

Parents planning for the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany or the United States. Romanian students apply across the EU as EU citizens and through UCAS to British universities, with A Levels doing the talking.

Athletes and performers

Gymnastics, tennis, football, swimming and music all demand hours that a fixed school day cannot give back. Training sits in the day and school works around the competition calendar. NCAA approval keeps American scholarships open.

Expat families posted to Romania

International parents who may well move again in two years. The curriculum travels, so a posting to Warsaw or Dubai costs no academic year and no transfer scramble.

Children who cannot attend daily

Chronic illness, anxiety, a disability or a treatment schedule. Recorded lessons and direct teacher support mean a fortnight away from the desk does not become a term behind.

Parents who want teaching, not a syllabus

Families looking at homeschooling in Romania who have realised they do not want to teach chemistry themselves. This is a school with teachers in it. The parent is not the instructor.

Who checks the school

Four bodies, and what each one covers

Accreditation is the part worth checking on any online school, including this one. Each claim below names the body, so you can verify it away from our website.

  • Accredited by

    Cognia

    A United States based non-profit accreditor working with institutions in more than 85 countries. The accreditation covers CambriLearn as a school rather than one programme inside it, which is the distinction that matters when a provider says it is "recognised" without saying by whom.

  • Accredited by

    Pearson Edexcel

    CambriLearn is an approved Pearson Edexcel examination centre, centre number 94888. That approval is what allows the Edexcel International GCSE, International AS and International A Level pathway to be taught and entered properly rather than informally.

  • Registered with

    SACAI and the IEB

    Both are South African assessment bodies, and both relate to the South African pathways rather than the British ones a Romanian family would take. They sit outside the Romanian picture, so they are listed here for completeness rather than relevance.

  • Approved by

    NCAA

    CambriLearn courses are NCAA approved, which keeps a recruited athlete academically eligible to compete for an American college. Worth knowing early if your child trains seriously. Every certificate sits on our accreditation page.

The detail, in plain language

Questions Romanian parents ask

The legal position, the exam centres, the cost and the bit everyone worries about, which is friends.

Read the full Romania guide
Is homeschooling legal in Romania?

Romanian law does not set out a homeschooling framework, and it does not prohibit home education either. The established route is to enrol with an accredited school based outside Romania, which then issues formal records of enrolment and academic progress. CambriLearn is accredited by Cognia and by Pearson Edexcel and provides that documentation. Our guide to homeschooling in Romania sets out the legal position, the umbrella school model and what has changed recently.

Where does my child sit the examinations?

Inside Romania. Approved centres operate in Bucharest and Timisoara, and IBSB in Bucharest publishes itself as an accredited Cambridge and Edexcel examination centre. Each centre sets its own policy on outside candidates and its own deadlines, so contact one four to five months before the series your child is aiming at. Our admissions team confirms a centre with you before enrolment rather than after it.

Will universities accept these qualifications?

Yes. International GCSEs and A Levels are read by universities across the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and beyond without conversion. Romanian students apply across the bloc as EU citizens and through UCAS to British universities. CambriLearn students have a 98 per cent university acceptance rate.

How much does it cost against a British school in Bucharest?

Bucharest British school fees run from around 12,900 euros a year in the youngest year groups to more than 24,000 euros in the sixth form, before deposits, transport and exam entries. CambriLearn is priced per subject and per package. Seven International GCSE subjects on the Standard package come to 4,050 US dollars for the year paid upfront with registration included, and three A Level subjects come to 1,910 dollars. Premium roughly doubles the tuition, and paying in ten instalments adds about 15 per cent. Every rate is published on the fees page and can be viewed in euros.

Do lessons clash with Romanian school hours?

No. Romania keeps the same clock as South Africa through the winter and runs one hour ahead in summer, so live lessons fall inside the Romanian school day in both. Every lesson is recorded as well, so a clash with training or travel does not cost your child the topic.

Is this homeschooling or a school?

A school. Qualified subject specialists plan the lessons, teach them live, set the work and mark it, and the school carries the accreditation. Parents supervise rather than instruct. Families searching for scoala online, or for homeschooling in Romania, usually turn out to mean this once they find out the difference.

Can my child start partway through the year?

Yes. Enrolment runs throughout the year. Admissions assess your child's current level and place them accordingly, whether they are arriving from the Romanian system, another international curriculum or a different online provider.

What about friends?

CambriCommunity runs clubs, study groups, live sessions and in-person meetups through vetted partners, and it is included with enrolment rather than sold on top. Students also work alongside each other in live lessons, and Premium students sit weekly face-to-face question sessions with their teacher.

Before you decide anything

Worth twenty minutes of your evening?

Bring your child's last report and the year group they are in now. A consultant will tell you which pathway fits, what it comes to in euros and which examination centre is closest to you. If online school is the wrong answer for your child, they will say so on the call.

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Bucharest fee figures read from each school's published 2026/27 schedule on . Parent ratings last checked across Google, HelloPeter, Trustpilot and Facebook.

*CambriLearn is accredited by Cognia and by Pearson Edexcel, registered with SACAI and the IEB, and NCAA approved. "International British Curriculum" refers to the curriculum framework delivered by CambriLearn, which prepares students to write examinations administered by Cambridge Assessment International Education at independently registered examination centres as private candidates. CambriLearn is not a registered Cambridge school and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education, the University of Cambridge or Cambridge University Press.