Jan 8, 2008
Suddenly, there's no need to wait until summer to attend Oxford; you can go there at the end of March, this year
It's a totally unexpected one-week interlude for Oxford addicts. Probably because there's a short, early-April recess at England's famous university, opening up student residences for occupancy by foreign tourists, the authorities there have announced a week-long program called "Insider's Oxford" for the period from March 30 to April 5, 2008. (Attendees will undoubtedly be fierce Anglophiles or readers/viewers of Brideshead Revisited or Inspector Morse.) The instruction will be all about Oxford and its famous colleges.
Mornings, participants will hear lectures by Oxford teaching staff on the history of Oxford; Oxford writers; art, music and religion at Oxford; and Oxford's unique teaching system and future development. Afternoons will be devoted to tours of colleges and gardens; the Bodleian Library; the Oxford University Press; and "hidden beauties" of the university -- all places that are usually out-of-bounds to tourists.
The price: £980, or approximately $1,946, including six nights of accommodations in Worcester College (in a single with private bath), three meals daily (with a closing reception and dinner), 10 lectures, and 5 afternoon tours of Oxford. The Oxford Bus Company has frequent service from London's Heathrow Airport to and from Oxford.
Registration deadline: February 15, 2008. And complete information on "Insider's Oxford" can be downloaded from the website. Or else it can be obtained from Insider's Oxford, OUDCE, 1 Wellington Sauare, Oxford, OX1 2JA, U.K. The e-mail address is oxprog@conted.ox.ac.uk, and the telephone number is tel. 011-44-1865-280763.
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Mornings, participants will hear lectures by Oxford teaching staff on the history of Oxford; Oxford writers; art, music and religion at Oxford; and Oxford's unique teaching system and future development. Afternoons will be devoted to tours of colleges and gardens; the Bodleian Library; the Oxford University Press; and "hidden beauties" of the university -- all places that are usually out-of-bounds to tourists.
The price: £980, or approximately $1,946, including six nights of accommodations in Worcester College (in a single with private bath), three meals daily (with a closing reception and dinner), 10 lectures, and 5 afternoon tours of Oxford. The Oxford Bus Company has frequent service from London's Heathrow Airport to and from Oxford.
Registration deadline: February 15, 2008. And complete information on "Insider's Oxford" can be downloaded from the website. Or else it can be obtained from Insider's Oxford, OUDCE, 1 Wellington Sauare, Oxford, OX1 2JA, U.K. The e-mail address is oxprog@conted.ox.ac.uk, and the telephone number is tel. 011-44-1865-280763.
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