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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
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 College's 35,000 books, periodicals,
exam papers, 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 and named after the College's co-founder,
the Library provides outstanding study facilities for the College. It
houses about 35,000 books, videos, DVDs, and audio-cassettes. It also
subscribes to over 50 national and international periodicals and newspapers
and there is a language centre for self-study. There are networked computers
with internet access and there is also wireless access.
The Library is open every day (including most evenings) apart from Easter
weekend and the Christmas to New Year holiday. There are two professionally
qualified librarians on the staff.
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