Since Cardiff Academy began in 1999 our students have consistently achieved places at some of the most prestigious universities in the UK, including Oxford and Cambridge. Many have gained entry to the most competitive Degree Courses such as Medicine and Dentistry. This, however, is not the whole story.
What also stands out from the list of A-level results and University placements is the unusually wide range of Universities and Degree Courses to which our students have gained entry over the years. This is a reflection of the truly inclusive nature of Cardiff Academy. More importantly, it is a reflection of our core educational ethos – to push all students across the entire ability range to achieve more than they ever believed possible.
Our aim in all cases is to build confidence by instilling in our students the same passion, enthusiasm, and scholarship for the subject that we have as teachers, whilst, at the same time, creating a secure, friendly, family-type environment in which students can learn and grow as young people. More than anything else, this requires very talented, experienced, and dedicated teachers who are not only academically extremely well qualified but also real enthusiasts for their subject.
What Cardiff Academy stands for are the old-fashioned values of honesty, integrity, value-for-money, success through hard work, teaching professionalism, and continuing duty of care to each student we take in from the day they arrive to the day they leave. These values inform everything we do from our dealings with parents to our insistence that, although Cardiff Academy is a fee-paying institution, the students we teach always come first. These things make Cardiff Academy quite different from most other private schools and colleges and stand as something of an antidote to commercialization and commodification in education.
For any fee-paying parent ensuring their child gains access to their desired university and course is pivotal. Therefore, choosing the right college to enable this progression is paramount. We are proud of our track record of 100% success in placing students at their desired Universities over the past 20 years.
What parents and students have come increasingly to realize since we first set up in 1999 is that Cardiff Academy is an institution that puts the child first. What they have discovered here is an educational ethos that respects the individual and values scholarship. Academic high-flyers excel in this system because our small class sizes allow them to engage in academic debate with teachers who are true experts in their subject.
As a result, students at Cardiff Academy are given the chance to show what they can do under the best possible circumstances and in the knowledge that, no matter what happens, we will never abandon them or let them down. This is a powerful message and one which is being increasingly recognized as such by more and more fee-paying parents and students in Cardiff and beyond every year.
