Why Study with Us

We are a UCAS registered centre, so your application, predicted grades and reference come from us rather than from a school you left. Personal statement work, choices and Clearing are included with every course, not sold as an extra.

Accreditation is a standard applied to teaching, assessment and centre administration, and it is assessed rather than self-declared. It is the reason we can run examinations properly for our own students and for private candidates.

The twelve required practical activities for Biology, Chemistry and Physics run here, in our own laboratory, supervised and assessed for the practical endorsement. Many providers cannot offer this at all, which is why science candidates are so often turned away.

Non-exam assessment has to be supervised and authenticated by the centre entering you. We do that work, including the Computer Science programming project, rather than leaving you to find somewhere that will.

Every teacher here is a graduate of a Russell Group university and teaches their own subject. You are taught by a specialist who knows the specification and the examiners’ reports, not by a generalist covering four subjects.

Course choices constrain degree choices, and degree choices constrain careers. Our advisers work backwards from where you want to end up, including the cases where the honest answer is that a different route gets you there faster.

Weekends, weekday evenings, one year full time or an Easter intensive. The specification and the papers are identical; what changes is when you are in the building, so the course fits around work, school or another provider.

You get a target grade from your diagnostic, then regular marked work measured against it. When the gap is not closing we say so early, while there is still time to change something.

Timed, invigilated and marked to the board’s mark scheme, with feedback broken down by question rather than a single grade. Sitting a paper properly before the real one is the cheapest improvement available.

Small groups, a named point of contact, and attendance that somebody actually looks at. Most resit years fail quietly rather than dramatically, and the fix is noticing early.

Every charge is on the fees page, including the ones other providers leave until later. There is no deposit and no registration fee, a hardship rate exists on request, and the price published for a course is held for its duration.

A past paper under timed conditions, marked and discussed, before you enrol and before you pay anything. It is how the target grade is set, and occasionally how we tell someone that this is not the right year for them.