Hockerill Anglo-European College, Hertfordshire
Borough: Hertfordshire
Address: Dunmow Road
Town: Bishop's Stortford
Postcode: CM23 5HX
Phone: 01279 658451
Fax: 01279 755918
Email: admin.hockerill@thegrid.org.uk
Website: Hockerill Anglo-European College
Nearest tube or station: Bishop's Stortford
Funded: Foundation
Admissions: Comprehensive
Gender: Mixed
Age group: 11-18
Number of Pupils: 737
Hockerill enjoys a rich and varied heritage. Originally established in the early 1850s, it was a teacher training college until 1978. It reopened in 1980 as a co-educational boarding school until 1994 when it became grant maintained Hockerill Anglo-European School. But 1998 proved to be a defining year, as the school underwent a dramatic transformation into Hockerill Anglo-European College. In the process it:-
* became one of the country’s first specialist language colleges;
* offered a sixth form provision for the first time;
* chose the International Baccalaureate Diploma programme as the only course of sixth form study.
Progress and innovation
Since then the College has doubled in size, with over 700 students, around a third of whom are boarders from Europe and beyond. There are over 50 cosmopolitan, carefully selected teachers – most at least bilingual - and double that number including support staff. We pioneered language school-university partnerships when we joined the University of Nottingham in training future language teachers. Equally significantly, our close working and cultural links with a network of partner schools throughout Europe offers all our students the opportunity for regular visits and prolonged study abroad.
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