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Academic
Staff
- About 20
full-time and 25 part-time subject teachers are engaged on pre-university
programmes
- Teachers
are selected for their academic qualifications and expertise,
successful teaching experience and ability to relate to our international
student community.
- Many are
very experienced teachers of the IB, at St. Clare's or elsewhere.
- Teachers
include IB examiners and workshop leaders
- Class sizes
are small. Teacher : student ratio is about 1:7
- Link here
for a full list of our academic staff
Facilities
Pre-university
courses are based at our campus on Banbury Road, Oxford. The campus
comprises 9 large houses and purpose-built additions, located in
a very pleasant, leafy suburb of Oxford. (A further 12 houses provide
residential accommodation only).
The
campus includes:
- Central College
administration
- Classrooms
in languages, social studies, maths, theatre arts
- Visual arts
studio
- Music rooms
- Science laboratories
- Computer
rooms for teaching and general student use, including e-mail and
Internet access
- Academic
Resources Centre, housing the College's 35,000 volume library,
periodicals, computers etc
- Central hall,
used for meetings, lectures, social events
- Activities
Department office
- Dining Room
- Sugar House
café / bar
- Residential
accommodation
Link
here for a picture of the Banbury Road campus.
Since this was drawn, we have acquired two further buildings close
to those shown. One provides a base for Social Studies and Theatre
Arts teaching. New Place, opened in
January 2002, houses maths classrooms, three music rooms and seminar
rooms.
Academic
Resources Centre
Located
in Anne Dreydel House, named after the College's co-founder, the
Academic Resources Centre provides outstanding study facilities
for the College.
- 35,000 volumes
- Over 50 periodicals,
journals, newspapers and magazines in more than 10 languages
- Video, audio-cassette
and CD-ROM library
- Computers
with Internet access
- Self-access
centre for English language study
- Open every
day during the academic year - until 21.30 on weekdays, and at
weekends
- Professionally
staffed at all times
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