As a small community, we promote integration across course and across college, whenever possible. Central to this objective is the harmonisation of teaching themes across college. There’s a genuine unity of purpose that creates significant benefits:
- learners function at their current level and yet take part in shared, cross-college activities and events
- Study Visits within Oxford and the Activity Programme encourage 'learning beyond the classroom': examples include 're-cycling campaigns, 'a celebration of Carnival across cultures' or a specialist speaker on 'the psychology of selling'
- the focus on language outcomes serves both to increase motivation amongst 'long-stay' students and allows easy integration of those on shorter courses.
The sample programme (from the English Language Courses) provides a flavour of life at the International College of Further Education, St. Clare’s, Oxford.