Short Courses

SHORT COURSES / SUMMER SCHOOL By Bekzhan

 

There are many language schools offering special short English courses for international students during summer in UK, sometimes combined with sightseeing, sports or other activities.

 

Many universities and colleges offer daytime "summer schools" in a wide range of subjects during the British summer holidays in July and August. These courses are usually open to international students. Your level of English needs to be high enough to be able to understand the lectures and to take part in discussions. Most courses usually last for between 1 and 4 weeks. For examples of international summer school programmes in the UK, see:

Cambridge University	http://www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk/IntSummer
Cardiff University	http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/for/prospective/inter/elt/courses/summer
Kingston University	http://www.kingston.ac.uk/summerschools
London School of Economics (LSE)	http://www.lse.ac.uk/summer-school
Oxford University	http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/oussa
University of Edinburgh	http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/suiss
University of Essex	http://www.essex.ac.uk/eiss
University of Newcastle	http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuiss
University of Northampton	http://www.northampton.ac.uk/international_summerschool.php
University of Sussex	http://www.sussex.ac.uk/iss

An online guide to short residential courses is available from City & Guilds at: http://www.timetolearn.org.uk.
For short courses in arts and crafts, see: http://www.artcourses.co.uk.

 

 

The one special summer school many of us (Kazakhs) have attended is situated in Oxford, called St.Clare's College. The atmosphere in there is absolutely fantastic, as you get to meet hundreds of people from different parts of the world. I am, personally, still in touch with many of them, and reminisce of those fun days at St.Clare's College in Oxford. Information about it can be found on www.stclares.ac.uk.