Discover a new career with our Young Professionals

Young Professionals

Located at two prestigious UK boarding schools, Young Professionals (Ages 13-15 & 16-18) combines classroom-based theory with practical sessions across a range of careers, giving them an opportunity to get some ‘hands-on’ experience.

This programme is open to 13-15 year olds and 16-18 year olds, offering 25 hours of tuition in their chosen subject per week. Courses will takes place at d’Overbroeck’s College, one of Oxford’s most prestigious and innovative pre-university institutions, and at the exclusive Tonbridge School in Kent.

Course Overview

Young Professionals combines professional skills tuition with a choice of vocational disciplines. Students choose one subject per 2-week course and receive specialist tuition which provides an opportunity to discover potential career options.

‘Young Professionals’ receive a variety of teaching styles, including theory lessons, practical sessions and group project work. Two full-day excursions are also provided each week, including an online ‘Study-in-Action’ seminar related to a student’s chosen specialism.

The social programme and weekly excursions are all designed to link with the academic syllabus each week. Students are always busy and having fun inside and outside the classroom with the extensive social programme of local activities and visits to places of interest.

Accommodation at d’Overbroeck’s, Oxford

d’Overbroeck’s is a highly successful and well respected British day and boarding school in Oxford. Located to the north of the city centre, d’Overbroeck’s state-of-the-art sixth form centre opened in September 2017 with first-rate teaching facilities. The courses are fully-residential within the college and breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided (packed lunches on excursion days). Teaching and course activities take place within the college and at other local venues. The medieval city of Oxford revolves around the prestigious University of Oxford. Nicknamed the ‘City of Dreaming Spires’ by the poet Matthew Arnold, Oxford is known for its beautiful buildings just 60 miles north-west of London. Since the arrival of the Saxons, the buildings demonstrate English architectural periods including the mid-18th century Radcliffe Camera.

Consistently ranked among the top co-educational boarding schools in the UK, d’Overbroeck’s was first founded in 1977 by Malcolm van Biervliet (the name “d’Overbroeck” comes from a part of his family name, which has Flemish origins). The school quickly established itself as a forward-thinking and highly-successful boarding school with a reputation for high-quality academic tuition.

Situated in three of d’Overbroeck’s boarding houses, the accommodation consists of single bedrooms with separate male and female. There is a laundry room in the boarding house free of charge.

The course includes airport transfers on the day of arrivals and departure and there is a travel insurance provision.

Excursions

On each two-week course there are two full-day excursions and one half-day excursion to places of interest, including at least one visit to London. Popular destinations include:

Blenheim Palace
Bristol
Greenwich
Windsor Castle & Eton
Warwick Castle
Stonehenge & Bath

Students enjoy relevant visits to local companies, museums and other cultural highlights. In addition to the excursions, faculty may take their students on field trips relevant to their lessons.