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Background to OASST Ltd and Status of Summer School

The Colleges of Oxford University are not, themselves, degree-awarding institutions but rather the academic home, with residential facilities, for students registered for the University’s courses and supported by a faculty corpus of Tutorial Fellows. The Fellows themselves, typically, hold appointments in the University’s Schools and Department, which also offer and resource academic discipline-based degrees.

Over 4 decades ago, most Colleges made an autonomous decision to offer short courses, styled on the University’s renowned tutorial system of small student groups working closely with a tutor and designed & delivered by the faculty. To do this, they recruited and commissioned teams of tutors from their own and other university faculty to design, deliver and assess student performance in a series of Courses and Options drawn from their scholarly expertise and University teaching. Matching Oxford’s own student support and collegiate experience, the Colleges provided full residency, and access to University and College library.

Such courses were offered during the vacations when facilities and tutors were not engaged in the University’s courses – typically, therefore, in the long Summer vacation – and Colleges developed partnerships with overseas (most often USA) universities who approved their content, collegiate support and assessment schemes and, occasionally, shared tuition with partners’ visiting faculty. More recently, Oxford Colleges developed a Visiting Student Programme, under the supervision of a Tutor for Visiting Students, outlined here:- Oxford does not award a degree or any other qualification for a period of study as a Visiting Student, but colleges are willing to provide a record of study undertaken, for example for credit purposes at the home university.

Visiting students are not matriculated students of the University of Oxford and do not take University of Oxford examinations or receive degrees or credits from the University of Oxford. In this respect, this is very similar to our Summer School model, with courses having a credit-rating and forms of assessment and grading scheme approved with our partners and culminating in our own Tutorial Report to the student’s parent institution.

According to Oxford University’s guidance for international students and visiting students:

…and the Oxford Colleges offer study opportunities such as Summer Schools on a similar basis…

Undergraduate Visiting Students typically study topics which form part of the courses that are available to Oxford undergraduates. It is not usually possible for Visiting Students to take a subject in which they have no university-level experience.

Oxford does not work on a credit system, so it is not possible for students to build up; a composite programme of study from many different subject areas. Most successful applicants are admitted for specific programmes; it is then up to the home university to assess their worth in terms of credit at the home institution.

Applicants should be of similar academic standard to full-degree students. As a guide, successful students will usually have GPA of at least 3.7 on a 4.0 scale (for North American students), or a level of achievement at university equivalent to a strong 2:1 UK degree classification (for students whose university courses are graded differently).

Oxford does not award a degree or any other qualification for a period of study as a Visiting Student, but colleges are willing to provide a record of study undertaken, for example for credit purposes at the home university…