Pictured above: Linda Walker
Nottingham Language Academy is launching intensive revision
classes this Easter as anxious pupils compete to secure university
places before tuition fees rise to as much as £9,000 a
year.
As pressure on higher education places mounts, the language
school, based at The Ropewalk, in the city, is offering help at
both A level and GCSE in French, German and Spanish during the
school break.
Students starting university this September will be the last
intake before higher tuition fees are introduced in 2012.
Nationally, more than 600,000 people have already applied
through the University and College Admissions Service but the
number of places available has been restricted to last year's level
of 487,000.
Demand for university places is being further fuelled by pupils
who are cancelling planned gap years to beat the rise in fees.
The Easter holiday revision classes will be held at Nottingham
Language Academy on April 18, 19, 20, and 21 and on April 26, 27
and 28.
"We want to give as much help as possible to pupils - and
parents - concerned that missing out on a place later this year
could cost them thousands of pounds," said Linda Walker, who is a
Business Language Champion in the East Midlands and who launched
the Nottingham Language Academy in September last year.
"If pupils have to re-sit A levels they could end up in the
first wave of students charged up to £9,000 a year in tuition
fees.
"While some youngsters will be shutting themselves away to study
at home for the Easter holidays, others may feel happier with a
professionally structured approach and a classroom environment to
help them revise more effectively. Nottingham Language Academy is
here to help."
The school, which offers tuition to individuals and businesses,
also teaches English as a foreign language, alongside the modern
languages of French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Greek and
Mandarin.
Classes are run during the day, evenings and at weekends, and
are designed for people who want to improve their job prospects,
travel and see the world, live and work abroad, gain a place at
university or learn something new for the fun of it.
The modern foreign languages courses are linked to the Common
European Framework of Reference for Languages, which now forms the
basis of language teaching and learning in most European Union
countries.
Nottingham Language Academy is based at 8 The Ropewalk,
Nottingham. For more information call 0330 333 6192.