International Course Guide 2019-2020
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19/20 East Sussex College INTERNATIONAL COURSE GUIDE 2019-2020 All you want from a top ranked language school... plus much more! Contents GENERAL OUR INFORMATION PROGRAMMES Welcome 3 English Language Courses Academic/Vocati onal Courses All you want from a top 4 Year Round 21 Hour 14 A Levels 24 ranked language school... English Language Plus plus much more! Vocati onal, Technical 26 Year Round 15 Hour 15 and Professional Courses One college, 6 English Language Plus three campuses (with unpaid work UAL Foundati on 28 experience opti on) Diploma in Art & Design Successful students 8 IELTS Summer 16 University Level Courses 30 Where are they now? 9 Preparati on Course The UK educati on 10 Gold Standard 1-1 17 system English Language Accommodati on 32 Internati onal Study Year 18 Care of under 18s 34 Pre-Foundati on 20 Programme College acti viti es 36 Young Learner 22 Meet the team 38 Summer School Applying to East 40 Tailor-Made Year 23 Sussex College Round Groups Please note: course informati on is correct at ti me of going to press. Government changes to qualifi cati ons and funding may mean that informati on in this guide is subject to alterati on. For the latest informati on, please visit our website www.escg.ac.uk or contact Admissions on 030 300 38787. 1 2 WELCOME Quality, care and success AT EAST SUSSEX COLLEGE We are delighted that you UK students, in additi on to around ministays, English combined with would like to fi nd out more 200 internati onal students at any work experience, and English about studying at East one ti me from around 35 diff erent combined with academic subjects. countries. This rich mix of cultures Numbers for individual English Sussex College (formerly and backgrounds makes for a vibrant, courses have also gone up and we Sussex Coast College and exciti ng and welcoming learning are welcoming a growing number of Sussex Downs College community. Tier 4 and Internati onal Study Year which merged in students. We are very proud of our students March 2018). and their achievements. Our students East Sussex College is defi nitely the have, in recent years, progressed place if you are seeking high quality We are based in to Oxford, Cambridge, London learning, new experiences, and the the beauti ful South School of Economics, Durham, and opportunity to meet people from a Downs and coastal areas to many other top universiti es and wide range of backgrounds. We look of South East England. We conservatoires, including those forward to welcoming you! have three campuses: two on outside the UK such as Harvard the south coast in Eastbourne University and the University of and Hasti ngs, and one in the historic Hong Kong. county town of Lewes. Our English Language examinati on We are a government college with results are outstanding and have accreditati on from the Briti sh Council been above nati onal averages for the for our English language provision. past three years. Cambridge PET,FCE In our 2018 Briti sh Council and CAE exams had 100% pass rate. inspecti on report, that was carried out in Lewes and Eastbourne, we We hope that this prospectus achieved 13 out of 15 areas of will give you a clear idea of what strength, and we therefore retain we have to off er. Our website our positi on as one of the top www.escg.ac.uk/study/internati onal English language providers in the will give you up-to-date informati on Clive Cooke UK. Our Hasti ngs campus is due on the work and acti viti es of our Chief Executi ve to be inspected later in 2019. students and staff , and we encourage you to look at this too. We are also proud to have won an award for Excellence in Internati onal Our successful English Language Student Support in Further Educati on Plus courses now run all year round! from the Nati onal Union of Students, We conti nue throughout the year, and the UK Council for Internati onal without half term breaks, so you can Student Aff airs. join at any ti me of the year. The last year has seen signifi cant We employ a full-ti me Immigrati on growth in our internati onal work, Compliance Offi cer to help advise with the college att racti ng an ever you on all aspects of student visas. increasing amount of groups for We have around 5,500 full-ti me Mark Allen Internati onal Director 3 All you want from a top ranked language school Year-round PLUS MUCH MORE! 15 & 21 HOUR a week English Language Plus course opti ons BRAND NEW Dedicated Internati onal COURSES team with full-ti me to meet the demands Immigrati on Compliance of an ever changing Offi cer to advise on internati onal educati on all aspects of visas market (English with unpaid work experience, one week Residenti al on-campus school group ministays, accommodati on 1-1 English lessons) and homestay opti ons 100% pass rate in Cambridge PET, FCE and CAE exams in 2018. On-campus IELTS Test Centre and Cambridge English Language Assessment Authorised Centre 4 WELCOME WE WIN AWARDS! Recognised by the UK Council for Internati onal An all-year-round Student Aff airs and language school with Nati onal Union of Students no half terms and no summer break for Excellence in diff erent Internati onal Student nati onaliti es Support in the Further Educati on sector. 35 modern campuses in beauti ful and safe locati ons on the South Coast 3 of England areas of strength in December 2018 Briti sh Council Inspecti on Report for Lewes and Eastbourne 13out of 15 5 Images, clockwise from top left : Eastbourne pier, Lewes town, Hasti ngs One college, THREE CAMPUSES. THE CAMPUSES • Wide range of academic and vocati onal courses • Well-established English language centres, off ering year-round English language tuiti on • IELTS test centre at Eastbourne • Cambridge exam centre at Lewes and Eastbourne • Modern and state-of-the-art building in Hasti ngs EASTBOURNE FACT FILE LEWES FACT FILE HASTINGS FACT FILE • Regularly tops the annual chart • Historic town off ering a peaceful • Historical seaside town famous for as the sunniest town in the UK and typically English experience the Batt le of Hasti ngs in 1066 • Eight kilometres of unspoilt • Wonderful 1000-year-old castle • Interesti ng Old Town with beaches and rich in culture fascinati ng shops and cafés • Lively social scene • Many independent shops, cosy • Known for its Smugglers’ Caves • Large shopping centre restaurants and cafés and Castle • Many nati onal awards such • Safe and welcoming for our • UK’s largest cliff railway as “Best UK Resort”, “Tourism internati onal students • Large beach home to Europe’s Desti nati on of the Year”, and “Most • The university city of Brighton & largest beach-launched fi shing Welcoming Town in Britain” Hove just 13 minutes by train from fl e e t Lewes 6 LOCATION Where are our campuses? All three campuses are within easy reach of Gatwick and Heathrow airports and the exciti ng city of Brighton. Eastbourne Hasti ngs Lewes London 1 hour 15 mins 1 hour 45 mins 1 hour Brighton 35 mins 1 hour 10 mins 13 mins Gatwick 1 hour 1 hour 30 mins 40 mins Heathrow 1 hour 40 2 hours 45 mins 1 hour 20 Newhaven 20 mins 1 hour 15 mins 15 mins STANSTED LONDON HEATHROW DOVER LEWES HASTINGS GATWICK EASTBOURNE BRIGHTON NEWHAVEN 7 We take great pride in our students’ examination Successful results, which are consistently above the students national average. Recent university destinations for our international students include: UK 96.6% • C a m b r i d g e A-Level pass rate for 2018 • London School of Economics (Eastbourne & Lewes) - up by 1.5% • Imperial College • University College London • Warwick • Durham 42% 71.8% • Bath A* - B rate A* - C rate • Exeter (up 4.4%) (up 4.9%) • Bristol • Queen Mary • King’s College London • Surrey • Kent • University of Arts London • Royal Academy of Music • Royal College of Music OVERSEAS • The University of Hong Kong • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University • University of Toronto • University of Melbourne • The Chinese University 100% of Hong Kong pass rate in Cambridge • The Hong Kong University CAE, PET and FCE of Science and Technology exams in 2018 • Flinders University of Tokyo • Osaka University • Kyoto University 8 SUCCESS Alumni Where are they now? This year marks the 10th instructors for your higher educati on. year since I graduated from So on a personal note, ESC really East Sussex College. Many things provided a comfortable environment have happened since then, but it that cushioned all the impacts down is nice to take a more careful look the road. To many of us at ESC, our back and start to appreciate that the tutor, Jo, was so much more than college days have actually off ered a personal tutor, she was a mother much more than I had realised at my eagle. She protects, helps and equips graduati on. you to become a grown-up – she forgives your occasional lack of To me, ESC was the transiti on moti vati on, but she fences with your point in my journey; it connected indolence and lack of discipline, and my educati on back in China to she never tolerates with you giving LIU Fangzhou (Albert) the undergraduate and masters up on yourself. experience in the UK and the CHINA ongoing PhD study in the USA. I am now completi ng my PhD on It built a foundati on for the academic natural hazards, specialising in kit you need to develop for university, landslides, at the Georgia Insti tute and it equipped you with the skills of Technology in the USA.