News and updates from Bosworth Independent College
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Summer School 2010 at Bosworth Independent college
Bosworth Independent College has been running summer school programmes for over 15 years. The programmes are aimed at individuals or small school groups who wish to benefit from a professionally structured language course balanced with social and cultural activities across the week. All of our programmes are managed by full-time staff within the college.
For 2010 we are offering the following programmes:
- Academic English for Teens (13–19 years old)
- Combined Course: English Language with Art Portfolio Preparation
We look forward to seeing you next Summer.
Watch us on the BBC - Wednesday 14th October
We are taking part in a BBC series on Education. The series is being broadcast to the following channels: BBC news channel, BBC world, the world service, radio 4, BBC online & the One o'clock news.
Depending on the what other news breaks on Wednesday we may have an hourly slot with some or all of the the channels above.
For example the school taking part on the programme today appeared:
9.20 BBC news channel
10.35 BBC news channel
10.45 World Service
11.35 BBC news channel
13.20 BBC One o'clock news
15.35 BBC news channel
16.35 BBC news channel
17.35 BBC news channel
17.45 BBC World
A-Level Course Information in detail
Our A-Level course information is now available in detail for each A-Level subject on our website. Go to the bottom of our A-Level Courses page and choose from one of the 17 course descriptions. Here you can read more on each subject or download the information as a .pdf to takeaway and read when it suits you.
Examples include:
Law
Mathematics
Economics
Chemistry
English Literature
Art
and many more...
Any questions on our courses can be directed to our Admissions Team at anytime.
We are looking forward to hearing from you and hope this information is useful.
GCSE Results 2009
Each year Bosworth Independent College has a growing number of students joining them to study the GCSE programme. Whilst the College has a strong reputation locally for its A-Level courses, many will not be aware that students join them from the age of 14 to study GCSE.
For a variety of reasons, a number of our current GCSE students transferred to Bosworth and chose to complete the one year intensive programme. Whilst this proves a challenge for the students the results have more than rewarded their efforts this year.
One of our local students Bethany Slinn (pictured above) who completed the one year intensive programme has celebrated 8 GCSE’s - 2 A* and 6 A grades and equally impressive one of our Polish students based in Northampton attained 6 GCSE’s – all A grades, both wonderful personal achievements.
Mike McQuin (Executive Principal of Bosworth Independent College) explains; ‘I would like to see more pupils studying with us at GCSE level because having the students across a three or four year period helps us to ensure they achieve a good University place.’
A-Level Results 2009
Bosworth Independent College students once again achieved exceptional results across the board with 78.4% of the entrants gaining one ‘A’ grade, 52.9% gaining two ‘A’ grades and 36.2% gaining three ‘A’ grades from the 102 students entered. All students gained a pass grade in all subjects and virtually all students expect to begin a University course in September.
Mike McQuin (The Executive Principal) was obviously upbeat about this year’s results, but interestingly he wasn’t just praising the straight ‘A’ students.
“Of course we are pleased with the results of the very good students and it’s always good to get your students into the top universities or to study in competitive areas like medicine or law, but we are often happier with the students who have achieved more modest results.
In this year’s cohort there are students who came to us, probably not expecting to achieve more than a pass grade at A-Level, but who now have B and C grades and are on their way to University against all expectations. For the College and its teachers, these are the real successes. It is, after all, what we all came into teaching for – to help young people achieve more than they ever thought possible”
Please visit our results page for more information on our Summer 2009 A-Level results.
A Level Results and Confirmation
Exam results will be available at college from 9.00am on Thursday 20th August. We can give you your results over the phone but we cannot tell you anybody else’s results without their written permission. It is a busy time on the phones and so we ask you not to request breakdowns of individual marks until after 11 0’clock. It is only fair that all students can get through to us on the lines to confirm their final grades. Unlike at AS the individual marks do not matter – the only thing the university is interested in is the grade - they will not care about a high B or a low B. If you e mail a request to ec@bosworthcollege.com we will reply with details of marks as soon as we can usually by the end of the day. If would like a remark of any papers this will not be dealt with until Friday 21st August and you should phone then to discuss. The boards rarely make mistakes so don’t make plans around this!!
For more information please see our updated Clearing Procedures 2009 section:
Best of luck with your results tomorrow.
Local students come in from around the county for revision
Bosworth students awarded for their hard work
The Council for Independent Education (CIFE) held their annual awards ceremony on 23rd April 2009 at the House of Lords and it was hosted by Baroness Perry of Southwark. These awards are in recognition of outstanding achievement by students in end of year public examinations. CIFE is a professional association of independent colleges in the UK. This year, five students from Bosworth achieved such recognition.
The Richard Smart Prize for Mathematics and Sciences
Eugene Chiu, Malaysian - Maths with Economics at University College London
Desmond Lee, Malaysian - Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Management at Imperial University
Ashley Hong, Malaysian - Medicine at Edinburgh Univeristy
The Richard Smart Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences and Languages
Sneh Jani, British - French and German at Bristol University
Vy Le Thao Tran, Vietnamese - Management studies at Nottingham University
The Principal and Vice-Principal were present at the awards and were both very proud!
(Picture from right to left) Eugene Chi, Ashley Hong, Mrs. Carter (Principal) Desmond Lee and Sneh Jani
Bosworth Summer Ball 2009
The eighth Bosworth summer ball took place on Saturday 23rd May and was our most successful so far. Over 250 students enjoyed the atmosphere of the town’s historic Guildhall. Everyone dressed up for the occasion and some even hired stretched limousines so that they could arrive in style. Everyone who went really enjoyed themselves as you can see from the photographs:
