Newsroom

8th Feb 2012

Check out our new page on the Council for Independent Education (CIFE) website: Oxford International College on CIFE website

25th Jan 2012

More website tweaks – mostly hidden, techie tweaks, things like making the pages much more print friendly. We also now have over 35,000 words on our site, making it the size of a small book! There are a lot more additions and changes in the pipeline.

18th Jan 2012

Our new online project – The Education Wizard – is launched today. At this stage the site is very much at the prototype phase. We will be adding pages almost every day so check back regularly. We will have a big official launch just before Easter.

4 Jan 2012

First day of term!

28 Dec 2011

Top educational stories of 2011 from the BBC: Top Educational Stories

25 Dec 2011

Happy Christmas Everyone!

21 Dec 2011

Although league tables do not really apply to our sector – I think this is an interesting point on how league tables can be manipulated by schools and colleges. Click here for the BBC’s article on 'Gaming' the school league tables?

15 Dec 2011

WJEC had posted an interesting response to the allegations of “cheating”. Click here for the WJEC article.

09 Dec 2011

The allegations of “cheating” have caused a minor media storm and have led to a couple of interesting articles. In the Telegraph: How the exam boards compete to be easier on the BBC website: Government calls for 'fundamental reform' of exam system and Inquiry as WJEC school examiners suspended . For what it is worth I have always thought that having the exams boards subject to market forces and competing for business is not a good thing.

08 Dec 2011

We are currently working on updating our website and have added a number of student orientated pages. We have drafted the following pages: A student guide to A level syllabuses, etc. We have also added to the location page giving some details of local hotels, restaurants, etc.

28 Nov 2011

The effect of student fees: University applications from UK-born students fall 15%

11 Nov 2011

Oxford International College was subject to the new ISI inspection – we passed with flying colours – full details can be found on our accreditation page. The Independent Schools Inspectorate effectively replaces ASIC. Further information can be found on the ISI website: Independent Schools Inspectorate.