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Pre-university
Courses
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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
- Library, 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.
Library
Located in Anne Dreydel House, named after the College's co-founder,
the Library 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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