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ELcentres of excellence
Page 10 March 2016

From strength to strength

Melanie Butler explains how the British Council categorises a
school’s strengths under four main headings giving a clearer view

raditionally the Gazette criteria on which a school is par- learning in green and Welfare and the edge of the box.
has published in full the list ticularly strong. student services, which includes Also for the first time, we
Tof strengths – and, indeed, Using graphs similar to those care of under-18s where applicable, have made a clear distinction
needs for improvement – of every which can be found on our con- in orange. The length of the col- between schools which do not
single Centre of Excellence based sumer site www.el-go.com, we oured line represents the percentage take under-18s, and are there-
on their summary statements, as have grouped areas of strength of available areas of strength. So, fore only eligible for strengths
publishable statements are now under the appropriate head criterion for example, the one centre on this in fourteen areas, and schools
called. This issue however we used by the British Council: Man- page with a perfect score, the Wim- which are inspected for care of
are introducing something new: agement in blue, Resources and bledon School of English, has four under-18s, who can score up to
an at-a-glance guide to the main environment in red, Teaching and equal lines stretching all the way to fifteen strengths. n

Key:
Top 20 per cent of schools, as
15/15 inspected by the British Council
Wimbledon School of English
Top 20–40 per cent of schools
Management
Resources and environment
Teaching and learning
14/15 Welfare and student services
Beet Language Centre (ALPHA Language Centre)

English in Chester

12/14
Lake School of English Oxford Ltd
English Language Centre Bristol
Nile
London School of English, London

St Edmund’s College
University of Brighton

13/15
Bell International Cambridge 12/15
EF International Language School Manchester

Cambridge Academy of English
EF International Language School Oxford
Discovery Summer
English Language Centre Brighton
Eurocentres Bournemouth
Excel English Language School
Eurocentres Cambridge

Windermere International Summer School
Eurocentres Eltham

Eurocentres London Central Sherborne International

Hilderstone College Broadstairs Sussex Downs College