HERTFORD COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES
GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES
We are committed to developing and maintaining strong relationships with overseas universities.
We believe that our international programmes benefit not only the students who participate but also our own students and the college community as a whole.
To further develop the relationship between Hertford College and your university, we extend a warm welcome to representatives from overseas universities to visit us at Hertford College to discuss possible future programmes. In fact, our college is open to all university visitors.
As well as meeting the team, you will have the chance to look round our college and its facilities. We will invite you to lunch or dinner in our historic dining hall and overnight accommodation can be arranged if required. If you would like to visit Hertford College, please feel free to contact us.
Starting a
new partnership
Every year, members of our team visit our partner universities overseas, and also contact new universities who may be interested in working with us to design educational programmes for their students in the future. We strive to meet the needs and academic requirements of each group of students, and the programmes can be updated, modified, or expanded according to the wishes of each university.
If you are a faculty member or work in the international office of a university, please feel free to contact us at any time.
Visiting our Partners
During our visits to our partner universities, we discuss the student feedback from our programmes and, if necessary, make changes to the schedule of classes contained within it. These modifications may reflect the current economic trends or important events that will be taking place during the time the students are here. For example, we have recently discussed including more sessions on job-seeking, interview skills, and Britain’s future after Brexit, in response to requests from several universities.
We also take the opportunity to give presentations to students who may be interested in our programmes. These lively sessions feature a short DVD, a Powerpoint presentation, and an informal question and answer session. These visits give us a chance to make friends with faculty members and international office staff. We firmly believe that establishing warm, personal relationships is the key to organizing successful programmes. If you would like one of our team members to visit your university please feel free to contact us.
Group Leaders
Most of our university groups choose to send a group leader to accompany the students. This could be a faculty member, or a member of the university’s international office team.
We warmly welcome group leaders to Hertford College, to whom we offer free meals and accommodation. With prior arrangement, they are welcome to observe the occasional lesson. They are free to accompany students on study visits, as well as evening and weekend activities. If, for any reason, group leaders are not able to go, our trained staff will ensure that students are safe and well at all times. We have many years’ experience of looking after groups of overseas students and universities can rest assured that we will take the best possible care of our visitors.
