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Make sure you know the rules for your student visa!
1. Full-time students: Students who have a student visa must enrol in full-time (15 hours per week) day classes. Your attendance must be more than 85% or it is very unlikely that the Home Office will renew your visa when your first visa finishes. We will warn you if your attendance is not good enough for visa requirements but we will not be able to help you if you do not attend school regularly or do not come to school for more than two weeks. You must pay for 5 classes per week even if you do not attend all 5 classes.
2. Part-time students: Students who have any other kind of visa e.g. au pair, tourist, working, or EU and Accession country students who do not need a visa. You may enrol for day or evening classes. You do not have to attend a certain number of classes. For you, we offer a ‘pay-as-you-go’ plan so you only pay for the classes you attend.
· You must attend 85% of classes to meet your visa requirements. Students whose attendance falls below 85% will receive a warning letter from the school administrator.
· You must attend the whole class to receive the attendance for that day. If you arrive late and leave early, you will not be given attendance.
· If you are absent from school for any reason, you must get written evidence of why you were absent. For example, if you are ill, you will need a letter from the doctor to explain why you were not in school. This is not for the school but for you to send to the Home Office when you want to extend your visa.
· You are allowed to work part-time (up to 20 hours per week) during the school term and full-time during the school holidays.
· The Home Office may contact the school at any time and ask for an update on any student’s attendance. The Immigration authorities may also do this if you leave the country at any time and are trying to regain entry to the
· Eurospeak is responsible for reporting non-attending students to the Home Office. If you are sick or on holiday, you must contact us and tell us why you are not in school. If you do not attend school for 3 weeks or more, we are obligated to report you to the Home Office.
* If you applying to change the type of visa you have e.g. tourist visa to student visa, you may not be able to do this in the
* You should send your application form to the Home Office one month before your visa finishes.
(1) Students wanting visa extensions must first get a visa application form. Form: FLR (S)
You can get this by telephoning the Home Office: 0870 241 0645 and asking for a form to be posted to you, or by downloading a form from the website: www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk or ask in the office.
(2) Complete your form.
(3) Allow Eurospeak 48 hours to complete the attendance section of the form. We must check our records to calculate your attendance.
YOU MUST HAVE ATTENDANCE OF MORE THAN 85%
(4) When you send your application form to the Home Office, you must show evidence of how much money you have each month and where that money comes from. It cannot be from any work that you do in the
The documents can be bank statements or letters from your family, employers in your home country, to say that you will be sent enough money to pay for accommodation, food, travel costs and school fees.
(5) You can go to the Home Office in Croydon,
· For Home Office Enquiries Tel: 0870 606 7766
· For Immigration Advisory Service Tel: 0207 357 6917
1. Beginners’ (starting in September and in January each year) is for students who can write English letters and numbers but who have never studied English before.
2. Elementary: (Foundation) is for students who have only some elementary notions of English
3. Pre-intermediate: Students who have acquired some knowledge of basic English.
4. Intermediate: Students who understand and can use most of the basic structures of English.
5. Upper-intermediate: Students, who wish to build on their knowledge, acquire greater accuracy and fluency and use English as a tool for daily communication.
6. Advanced: Students who wish to progress to a high level of English that will equip them for rapid and accurate communication in English.
Our classes are 3 hours each morning, afternoon or 2 hours twice a week in the evening. Our classes correspond to these different levels. We have at least one class for each level every day. We want our students to learn a quickly as possible. Students who progress well will go to the next higher class as soon as they are ready.
· Students must inform the school if you are going to be absent for 2 weeks or more (illness or holiday). If you do not inform the school, your place in the class may be given to another student.
· When you decide to finish your course, please inform the school 2 weeks before your last class. If you do not inform the school, we may charge you for the 2 week notice period.
· All full time students are expected to buy the course book and the workbook. If you pay termly for your classes, you do not pay extra for the course book, which is included in the course fees for the term. If you pay monthly or weekly for your classes, the cost of the course book will automatically be added to your course fees at the beginning of the term.
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· You may borrow supplementary books from the school. We will ask you to pay a deposit of £15, which will be returned to you when you return the book to the school. You will be charged for books that are not returned.
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· If you have a lot of questions or need a long time for us to help you, please try to make an appointment with the school director. If you ask us in the break time or at the beginning or end of a class, we may not have time to help you fully.
You will need school letters for the following:
· To open a bank account
· To go on holiday if you are leaving the
· To apply for a National Insurance number
· To join a local library
· To confirm that you are a student when you are applying for a job
At the end of your course, Eurospeak can also provide students with a Certificate of Level Attained. If you would like this certificate when you leave the school, please ask in the school office.
Please allow
It may not be easy for you to open a bank account as many banks are not keen to give bank accounts to foreign students. You need to decide which bank you would like to have an account with and get a letter from the school, addressed to that bank. Do not be surprised if the bank refuses your application. If this happens – try another bank.
· Discounts are only offered when payment is made in advance of classes.
When a course deposit of £378.00 is paid, the student will only receive the termly discount of 10% if the remaining balance of payment for the term is paid on arrival. For the monthly discount of 10%, students must pay in full in the first week of the month. Students paying for a term in advance receive 12% discount and students paying for a year I advance receive 15% discount.
· On arrival, students must inform the school if they will be paying termly, monthly or weekly.
· Full–time students must pay for 5 classes per week even if you do not attend all 5 classes.
· If payment is overdue, students will receive a note reminding them to make a payment. If a payment is delayed for more than 2 weeks they may not be allowed to attend the class.
· In the winter term, all classes up to Christmas must be paid before 10th December. In the summer term, all classes up to the end of May must be paid by 31st May.
· Normally in September and January, or at the beginning of your course, there will be a charge of up to £18.00 for a text book and £10 for a workbook.
To renew a full time student visa, the Home Office need to see evidence of progress. This means you need to take at least 1 external exam each year eg.
8. Exam procedures
The school is a national exam centre no.: 51302 and is approved by Cambridge ESOL and OCR for conducting exams set by these bodies. It also helps students to take exams in other exam centres for exams it does not conduct itself such as IELTS and
It is important for all full-time visa students to understand that our courses are all aimed at helping you to take an exam in English or Computer Studies. Normally the Home Office require proof of exam results before they grant a visa extension.
Cambridge English exam dates are published on our website (www.eurospeak.org.uk) and in our leaflets. IELTS and
We offer 5 levels of Cambridge Exams:
KET - Key English Test (Pre-Intermediate level)
PET – Preliminary English Test (Intermediate level)
FCE – First Certificate Exam (Upper-Intermediate level) CAE - Cambridge Advanced Exam (Advanced level)
CPE – Cambridge Proficiency Exam (Proficiency level)
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I.E.L.T.S - International English Language Testing Systems
BEC - Business English Certificates
TOEFL - Test of English as a Foreign Language
CELS - Certificates in English Language Skills
LCCI Examinations -
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Eurospeak can issue International Student Cards, which will give you discounts on a range of items, such as travel and shopping. If you want to get a student railcard, you will need an ISIC card to apply at the train station. However, an ISIC card does not automatically get you discount as it is for individual companies to decide if they want to participate in the International Student Card scheme and to accept the card for discount. For example, all ‘Warner’ cinemas accept the ISIC card, but other cinemas do not.
· ISIC cards can only be given to FULL TIME STUDENTS, studying for a minimum of 6 months.
· To get an ISIC card, please ask in the office for an application form. You will need to complete the form and then bring it to the school with a passport size photograph and £9.00. Your card will be ready in 24 to 48 hours.
11. School Rules
· Class attendance – full-time students are expected to attend their lessons every day during the period of their enrolment. Any student who is unable to comply with this must produce a written document explaining their absence or obtain school authorisation for their absence. Students who are in
· Class behaviour – All students are expected to behave in a manner consistent with their participation in a well-ordered group class. They should be cooperative and respectful to the teachers and members of the class. A notice explaining classroom etiquette is posted in all classrooms. They are also expected to make a reasonable effort to follow the class and do the work set in class for their homework.
· Students whose behavior in the classroom is disruptive will be warned 1 or 2 times and then told to leave the class. If this behavior continues their conduct will be referred to the school director who may suspend or expel them.
· Students who repeatedly fail to do the work set will be warned and will be referred to the academic director and subsequently to the school director who will take appropriate action.
· Students who are rude, offensive or racist in the context of the classroom will be referred directly to the school director who will decide on the appropriate action to be taken.
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· Plagiarism. All work that emanates from another source must be referenced.
· Collusion. All work presented must be the result of one student’s work unless otherwise authorized by the teacher.
· Personating. All students who present themselves at examinations must show their passport or national ID.
12. Health and Safety
· You must never behave in a manner that might be considered dangerous. You must follow the instructions of the teacher and the fire notices in all the classrooms in the event of a fire or a fire drill.
· There is a first aid box in the main school office. The school can not give you drugs or medicines. You will need to provide your own aspirin or equivalent. We can call an ambulance.
· If you notice a student in physical distress and judge that the student needs help please report this to the nearest teacher and help the student if appropriate. It may not be a good idea to move a distressed or injured student.
13. Complaints Procedure
· If you are not satisfied that you are being treated correctly please speak to the member of staff concerned with your complaint.
· If you are still dissatisfied with the way in which your complaint is dealt with, please give the member of staff concerned a written letter of complaint with a copy for the school director.
· If you are still dissatisfied with the situation, make an appointment with the school director who will take appropriate measures to resolve the issue.
We want you to enjoy being a student in