Summer English Course at the University of Greenwich - Medway

General English for ages 12-18, 15 hours a week in lessons of 1 hour 30 minutes, timetabled zig-zag across mornings and afternoons. The listening and grammar parts of the entry test are taken before arrival and the speaking and writing parts on site; students are placed in classes from A1+ through C1+, with a maximum of 18 to a class. Teachers hold a recognised teaching certificate and the centre is accredited by the British Council.

A two-week package covers tuition, campus accommodation, meals, excursions and the evening activity programme. There are three full-day excursions a week, six over a fortnight, with entries to the London Eye and Madame Tussauds included as standard and a packed lunch provided on each full-day trip. Shorter stays of one week are sold at the published seven-night rate. Gold and Platinum programme upgrades are available as supplements, and airport transfers are quoted separately by the school.

Students stay in small flats of four to six with single en-suite bedrooms, a small kitchen for social use and free Wi-Fi, and every flat has a shared common area. There are 300 single beds with a private shower room, in the Forte, Adelaide, Sunne, Merlin and Wolfe blocks on campus. Offsite accommodation is also available at Pier Quays, a modern building about a kilometre from the campus with a superstore, cafe and eatery nearby, a 15-minute walk away with a shuttle service in the mornings. Towels are not provided. Linen is changed and the flats cleaned before arrival and weekly thereafter. The campus has a 24-hour security presence, CCTV and secure entry systems. A damage deposit of GBP 100 or EUR 120 applies, and a replacement set of keys costs GBP 80.

Meals are included in the programme and served in the Pembroke canteen, which has a dining area and a cafe seating area. A packed lunch is provided for each full-day excursion. Flat kitchens are for social use only, with no oven or hob and no appliances or utensils supplied; there are vending machines on campus and cafes on campus and locally.

Evening activities run daily, including discos in the campus Disco Hall known as The Deep End. There are three full-day excursions a week, travelling by private coach, with entries to the London Eye and Madame Tussauds included as standard. Outdoors there are tennis courts and green spaces on campus.

A compact campus with tennis courts and green spaces, a cafe, the Pembroke canteen, a common room, a Disco Hall, vending machines and laundry run through the Circuit Laundry app at about GBP 3.10 a wash and GBP 1.70 a dry. A study room is available on request and a safe box is kept in the office. Wi-Fi reaches the accommodation. There is no 24-hour reception, though a security team is on site around the clock, and there is no indoor sports facility, no swimming pool, no computer room and no games console room.

The Medway campus sits in Chatham Maritime in Kent, two miles from the town centre and about 10 minutes away by bus or coach, and just under an hour from London Gatwick Airport. The site was once a Royal Navy base, and Chatham's Historic Dockyard, where HMS Victory was built, is a short distance away. Docklands Shopping Centre is a short walk away and Chatham town centre, with shops, restaurants and a cinema, a short bus ride. London, Dover, Brighton and Canterbury are all within reach. Cash machines, post offices, a convenience store, places of worship and tourist information are available locally.