St. Patrick's is committed to an EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES POLICY.

Why St Patrick's?

There are several compelling reasons why students should consider St. Patrick's very seriously.

The high quality and excellence of education

St Patrick's provides high quality education in a caring and friendly environment. It has all the facilities you need for an effective and enjoyable learning experience, which contributes to the success of their students.

Accreditations & affiliations

St. Patrick's has a impressive and enviable host of accreditations and affiliations with various organisations, which are testament to the high quality of education offering. 

Authentic British

St. Patrick's pride themselves on providing courses that lead to 'Authentic British' (mapped to the National Qualifications Framework) qualifications from Edexcel, University of Portsmouth, University of Sunderland and University of London. 

British qualifications have a strong established foundation of many centuries and are relied upon extensively and recognised globally. British qualifications are also most evolved to meet today's and tomorrow's needs of global markets, not yesterday's requirements. Further, British qualifications are also most sought by organisations today.
 

Highly Experienced and Qualified Staff

The quality and excellence is underpinned by their staff, who are highly experienced and qualified upto PhD and MBA levels. The staff comprise academics and industry-professionals, which provides their students a unique mix of best-learning practices along with 'hands-on' implementation experience of people who've been there and done it. As a result of this, students undergo a learning process, which from the outset prepares them for employment.

Meeting the needs of industry and students

An eventual goal for education and training for many, is good employment and the prospects of a better quality of life. It is hence important to consider the part played by higher education. To achieve good employment, look at employer needs - it is evident that employers are looking for a workforce which does not simply rely on academic mastery, but also possesses the practical skills necessary in getting things done. St. Patrick's courses address exactly this - St. Patrick's courses are 'real life based' whereby students apply their academic learning to real life situations. For example, students may be asked to develop business plans, create full company accounts or even develop priced and costed food menus. No wonder that students obtain work placements and commence successful careers with some of the world's leading brand name firms and blue chip organisations.

On an ongoing basis, St. Patrick's reviews and modifies its courses to ensure that they reflect tomorrow's needs, not yesterday's.

St. Patrick's also understand that some of their students need to undertake part time work in the UK to supplement their incomes. St. Patrick's structures its lessons and tutorials to facilitate enough time for its students to do their research, complete their coursework and also undertake part time work if necessary.

The emphasis St. Patrick's give on helping students to continually improve their performance through

• Helping students to undertake and transition from coursework-only courses to coursework + exam courses; this is a typical in their undergraduate courses where students migrate from a coursework-based HNC 1st year, through to a coursework + exam final year leading to a BSc or BA. This helps students build their confidence and improves their capabilities and performance.

• Multi-part pieces of coursework - where for given coursework, students have to complete each component part and this is marked and assessed by St. Patrick's lecturers. The lecturers provide feedback on every part, identifying the students' areas of strength and most importantly identifying what they should have done to get better grades. This enables the student to produce increasingly higher quality work and enhances their overall performance.
  
  Testament to this is the graduation of almost 100 students with degrees from the University of Greenwich & Portsmouth.
   

St. Patrick's emphasis on providing students industry-recognised qualifications, year on year

A well known issue relates to students' 'wasted time', particularly where they are unable to complete their course for legitimate reasons. Commonly, educational establishments provide credits for the time the student has been in attendance. For the student, taking these credits and attempting to use them for future admission at other educational establishments is often an arduous task. 'Course incompatibility', translation between different educational systems and 'timeouts' are common obstacles in this task often leading to the student having to start again.

To address this, St. Patrick's has designed it's courses, particularly undergraduate studies, such that students achieve bona fide (mapped to the British National Qualifications Framework) qualifications, year on year. Year 1 leads to HNC, year 2 leads to HND and year 3 leads to the BA or BSc.

This framework caters for even those students who do have to leave prematurely, ensuring that they take away qualifications with them that are globally recognised and accepted. This effectively minimises their 'wasted time' and provides longer term cost-savings.

EntryRoutes & Qualification

The figure below shows the generic entry routes and qualifications roadmap with St. Patrick's.

Low cost courses virtually half price compared to some other educational establishments

St. Patrick's courses are very cost effective compared to other educational establishments. Depending on the specific course, their prices for undergraduate study are virtually 50% cheaper. They achieve this without compromising the quality or excellence of the education offered. Specifically, They achieve this by focusing their resources into the important areas - the quality of their teaching staff, the learning facilities, the course material, the learning environment and facilities and the student performance improvement processes. Further, being an independent college, St. Patrick's is not compelled systemically to charge their students a high minimum charge.
 

Being located in the heart of Vibrant London

St Patrick's is located right in the heart of London's main shopping and entertainment centre, only a few steps away from Oxford Street. It is close to many major tourist attractions such as Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye, Tower Bridge, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey. With everything from historic buildings and museums to modern day theatres and art galleries, it is one of the most popular tourist centres in the world. London is well known for its diversity of restaurants, from the traditional pub lunch to exotic Lebanese and Indian food. People who love to shop can visit department stores along Oxford Street and there are also street markets to visit. London has something for everyone - day or night.
 

The access St. Patrick's International College  provide for students to experience and be involved in the renowned extra-curricular UK student life

In addition, St. Patrick's also provides its students free access to the International Students House for involvement in Students Union, sports and fitness centre and a full social programme of activities and visits.

The high quality of student welfare assistance they provide

Another reason for choosing St. Patrick's is the support offered to students. This includes provision of accommodation and welfare services, by a full-time and qualified welfare officer.

Accommodation

All St. Patrick's accommodation is carefully selected, visited and monitored to ensure that standards are maintained and to make sure your stay is a comfortable one.