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- The very best in independent co-education, day and boarding, from age 2-18. Our Prep School is located in Lower Parkstone, Poole, Dorset and the Senior School is a 5-minute walk from the beaches in Southbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset. BCS recognizes that academic success is vitally important in education and is a central component to the opportunities our pupils enjoy once they leave the School. Universities and employers increasingly demand a wide range of skills and experiences, and BCS now has a greater responsibility more than ever to focus on the overall development of their pupils. At BCS we pride ourselves on our ability to ‘add value to each pupil's education from 2 years old up to A level. Individual needs are catered from across age groups, and girls and boys of differing abilities and interests flourish in our school environment. Whilst academic success is very important, at BCS we believe that there is more to a good education. As well as ensuring our students succeed in exams, we aim to develop character, compassion, and service. Throughout their time at BCS, students are expected to contribute to our school community and society. We want students to try things they cannot do, to persist in the face of difficulty, and to become resilient in overcoming obstacles. With this in mind, we provide a breadth of opportunities and experiences which seek to help our students become confident, well-rounded, and ambitious young adults. Our curriculum and enrichment program is overflowing with opportunities to try something new and develop new skills. In addition to our very wide range of extracurricular clubs, our students enjoy numerous overseas trips, university visits, talks from inspirational speakers from the worlds of medicine, law, and business as well as new opportunities to collaborate with their peers at Bright Scholar schools across the world. We are incredibly proud to deliver an Education with Character an education that challenges, inspires, and excites our students and prepares them for the ups and downs of life. A successful school is a way of life and a place in which young people grow and develop. At BCS we believe in a child-centered education and value the contribution and achievement of every pupil. We are values focused school and these are extremely important to us and are central to everything we do every day Resilience, Courage, Perseverance, Integrity, Trust, Honesty, Kindness, and Respect. The aims of BCS are: To celebrate a culture of success where everyone strives to achieve academic excellence through endeavor and diligence. To foster a safe, happy and supportive environment where creativity, curiosity, and freedom of spirit can flourish. To engage pupils in activities and leadership choices that will make them socially responsible in their local and wider communities. To equip everyone with the skills for the demands and challenges of a rapidly changing world. To be an inclusive school where everyone is proud of who they are and what they can achieve. View full school
The very best in independent co-education, day and boarding, from age 2-18. Our Prep School is located in Lower Parkstone, Poole, Dorset and the Senior School is a 5-minute walk from the beaches in Southbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset. BCS recognizes that academic success is vitally important in education and is a central component to the opportunities our pupils enjoy once they leave the School. Universities and employers increasingly demand a wide range of skills and experiences, and BCS now has a greater responsibility more than ever to focus on the overall development of their pupils. At BCS we pride ourselves on our ability to ‘add value to each pupil's education from 2 years old up to A level. Individual needs are catered from across age groups, and girls and boys of differing abilities and interests flourish in our school environment. Whilst academic success is very important, at BCS we believe that there is more to a good education. As well as ensuring our students succeed in exams, we aim to develop character, compassion, and service. Throughout their time at BCS, students are expected to contribute to our school community and society. We want students to try things they cannot do, to persist in the face of difficulty, and to become resilient in overcoming obstacles. With this in mind, we provide a breadth of opportunities and experiences which seek to help our students become confident, well-rounded, and ambitious young adults. Our curriculum and enrichment program is overflowing with opportunities to try something new and develop new skills. In addition to our very wide range of extracurricular clubs, our students enjoy numerous overseas trips, university visits, talks from inspirational speakers from the worlds of medicine, law, and business as well as new opportunities to collaborate with their peers at Bright Scholar schools across the world. We are incredibly proud to deliver an Education with Character an education that challenges, inspires, and excites our students and prepares them for the ups and downs of life. A successful school is a way of life and a place in which young people grow and develop. At BCS we believe in a child-centered education and value the contribution and achievement of every pupil. We are values focused school and these are extremely important to us and are central to everything we do every day Resilience, Courage, Perseverance, Integrity, Trust, Honesty, Kindness, and Respect. The aims of BCS are: To celebrate a culture of success where everyone strives to achieve academic excellence through endeavor and diligence. To foster a safe, happy and supportive environment where creativity, curiosity, and freedom of spirit can flourish. To engage pupils in activities and leadership choices that will make them socially responsible in their local and wider communities. To equip everyone with the skills for the demands and challenges of a rapidly changing world. To be an inclusive school where everyone is proud of who they are and what they can achieve.
Established in 1885 as a specialist institution, Arts University Bournemouth is a leading University offering high quality specialist education in art, design, media, and performance across the creative industries. We are passionate about the creative subjects we teach and encourage curiosity, risk-taking, and adventure in exploring and pushing subject knowledge and boundaries. Arts University Bournemouth (formerly The Arts University College at Bournemouth, AUB), established in 1885 as a specialist institution, is now a leading University offering high quality specialist education in art, design, media, and performance across the creative industries. We remain passionate about our subjects and continue to encourage curiosity, risk-taking, and adventure in exploring and pushing subject knowledge and its boundaries. The University provides staff and students with a well-resourced environment to practice to the highest professional standards. Our staff is exceptional. They are inspiring teachers, researchers, industry practitioners, and technicians who are all here to support you with your studies and help you to achieve outstanding outcomes. THBWe has been awarded Gold in the TEF (Teaching Excellence Framework) by HEFCE, which assesses the quality of teaching. We received this for delivering consistently outstanding teaching, learning, and outcomes for our students. Our teaching is of the highest quality found in the UK. Our Diploma in Art and Design – Foundation Studies Programme is delighted to have achieved the ‘Outstanding’ rating in its 2018 Ofsted inspection – in all four areas. You can read more here and see the full report here. AUB’s stunning state-of-the-art campus is a creative hub designed for specialists. With a backdrop of head-turning architecture, you will be in a community of like-minded makers and thinkers. Our campus is a catalyst to shape and build your work to experiment, innovate, be curious, and push boundaries. It is where you will make amazing things happen. Our spaces are divided into villages, boulevards, green space, and infrastructure. Our campus also has a real buzz about it. On route to the café, you might pass a film crew, a woman in Elizabethan dress, and a DJ. It is a microcosm of the creative industries. AUB was voted the highest-ranked modern university in the South West by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018. We invest heavily in industry-standard technology and spaces that equip you for life in the creative industries. We want you to get used to the equipment and facilities you will find in the real world. Plus, you are also surrounded by the New Forest, great beaches, and World Heritage Jurassic Coast. Bournemouth boasts excellent nightlife and culture too, and London is just two hours away. We are a practical university with strong ambitions for our graduates to enjoy rewarding careers. Our graduate employment rate is 98%*, the joint highest employment rate of any English university. We consistently achieve outstanding employability results because of the quality of our teaching and our campus and facilities, which prepare our students for employment. We are a gateway to the £92 billion creative industries, which is growing faster than the whole of the UK economy, accounting for 1 in 11 jobs. It is a sector that can be rewarding, exciting, and needs new ways of thinking. The creative industries need someone like you. Our alumni regularly return with incredible stories of things they have done, a business they have created, and awards they have won. The best work happens when different disciplines come together. Everyone here is a creator, and you will get the chance to collaborate with them. No creative subject stands alone at AUB. Cross-fertilization of ideas and techniques benefits everyone, and it is exactly how students will experience the real world. Our collaborations extend beyond courses that work together, to the broader university world and links with industry. Every year we also turn the University into the most significant creative agency on the south coast for 24 hours. Sign up, and you will have the opportunity to work on briefs from some of the most innovative brands today. Past briefs have come from Virgin, Bestival and the RNLI. Our AUB community works to make the world a better place, using creativity to offer solutions to the inequalities and injustices that they see in the world. AUB offers PrepHE, undergraduate and postgraduate awards in art, design, media, and performance. These awards are characterized by an emphasis on studio practice, delivered within a community of creative professionals. Courses have a strong focus on developing the technical and professional skills of students, which leads to highly employable graduates both within their specialist fields and beyond. Collaboration between courses, and between students, is designed to reflect the demands of professional practice how courses work together to provide this professional environment is a crucial feature of the educational environment at the institution. This charter sets out Arts University Bournemouth’s commitment to providing you with a service of the highest quality. You must respond in a positive way to this partnership to take full advantage of the educational opportunities available to you, and realize your full potential.
Our website will, we hope, give you a flavor of what makes our university special, in terms of our academic expertise and business connections, whether you are a student, employer, or prospective colleague. Our university has come a long way in a short amount of time, and we currently have more than 17,000 students, of which 1,500 are international students from around 130 countries. We have a strong professional orientation with a focus on academic excellence and graduate employability. By illustration, we are recognized as the only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice in the UK, and graduates from the National Centre for Computer Animation have worked in Hollywood on such films as Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, Star Wars, Madagascar and King Kong. Areas of research expertise include forensic archaeology and crime scene science. For example, the staff is currently investigating genocide in Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Rwanda and the implications of unearthing 40,000-year-old human footprints in central Mexico. Bournemouth University is at the heart of the largest non-industrial conurbation in Europe. It is in a beautiful location sandwiched between the UK’s newest national park, best beaches, and most abundant natural harbor. It is home to a significant financial services sector (JP Morgan Chase, Nationwide Building Society, and Liverpool Victoria, among others) and the largest concentration of language schools outside London and many national headquarters, including the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and Sunseeker International. Bournemouth is world-renowned as an international conference center and plays host to major academic, professional, and political conferences. It also offers one of the largest exhibition and entertainment venues on the south coast. The university is a dominant player in the economic and cultural life of South West England. We are at the hub of a network of educational, business, and local government partners and played our part in the region’s preparations for the 2012 Olympics. Bournemouth University has an excellent reputation among students, their parents, and staff in colleges and schools. Furthermore, since my arrival in September 2005, we have strengthened this reputation and have considered what Bournemouth University should be like in the future. As a result, many exciting changes are now on the train. In particular, we are building on our strengths while developing new, professionally relevant areas, investing more than £100 million in staff and facilities, and reorganizing to maintain our focus on academic excellence.- Our website will, we hope, give you a flavor of what makes our university special, in terms of our academic expertise and business connections, whether you are a student, employer, or prospective colleague. Our university has come a long way in a short amount of time, and we currently have more than 17,000 students, of which 1,500 are international students from around 130 countries. We have a strong professional orientation with a focus on academic excellence and graduate employability. By illustration, we are recognized as the only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice in the UK, and graduates from the National Centre for Computer Animation have worked in Hollywood on such films as Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, Star Wars, Madagascar and King Kong. Areas of research expertise include forensic archaeology and crime scene science. For example, the staff is currently investigating genocide in Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Rwanda and the implications of unearthing 40,000-year-old human footprints in central Mexico. Bournemouth University is at the heart of the largest non-industrial conurbation in Europe. It is in a beautiful location sandwiched between the UK’s newest national park, best beaches, and most abundant natural harbor. It is home to a significant financial services sector (JP Morgan Chase, Nationwide Building Society, and Liverpool Victoria, among others) and the largest concentration of language schools outside London and many national headquarters, including the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and Sunseeker International. Bournemouth is world-renowned as an international conference center and plays host to major academic, professional, and political conferences. It also offers one of the largest exhibition and entertainment venues on the south coast. The university is a dominant player in the economic and cultural life of South West England. We are at the hub of a network of educational, business, and local government partners and played our part in the region’s preparations for the 2012 Olympics. Bournemouth University has an excellent reputation among students, their parents, and staff in colleges and schools. Furthermore, since my arrival in September 2005, we have strengthened this reputation and have considered what Bournemouth University should be like in the future. As a result, many exciting changes are now on the train. In particular, we are building on our strengths while developing new, professionally relevant areas, investing more than £100 million in staff and facilities, and reorganizing to maintain our focus on academic excellence. View full university
- Established in 1885 as a specialist institution, Arts University Bournemouth is a leading University offering high quality specialist education in art, design, media, and performance across the creative industries. We are passionate about the creative subjects we teach and encourage curiosity, risk-taking, and adventure in exploring and pushing subject knowledge and boundaries. Arts University Bournemouth (formerly The Arts University College at Bournemouth, AUB), established in 1885 as a specialist institution, is now a leading University offering high quality specialist education in art, design, media, and performance across the creative industries. We remain passionate about our subjects and continue to encourage curiosity, risk-taking, and adventure in exploring and pushing subject knowledge and its boundaries. The University provides staff and students with a well-resourced environment to practice to the highest professional standards. Our staff is exceptional. They are inspiring teachers, researchers, industry practitioners, and technicians who are all here to support you with your studies and help you to achieve outstanding outcomes. THBWe has been awarded Gold in the TEF (Teaching Excellence Framework) by HEFCE, which assesses the quality of teaching. We received this for delivering consistently outstanding teaching, learning, and outcomes for our students. Our teaching is of the highest quality found in the UK. Our Diploma in Art and Design – Foundation Studies Programme is delighted to have achieved the ‘Outstanding’ rating in its 2018 Ofsted inspection – in all four areas. You can read more here and see the full report here. AUB’s stunning state-of-the-art campus is a creative hub designed for specialists. With a backdrop of head-turning architecture, you will be in a community of like-minded makers and thinkers. Our campus is a catalyst to shape and build your work to experiment, innovate, be curious, and push boundaries. It is where you will make amazing things happen. Our spaces are divided into villages, boulevards, green space, and infrastructure. Our campus also has a real buzz about it. On route to the café, you might pass a film crew, a woman in Elizabethan dress, and a DJ. It is a microcosm of the creative industries. AUB was voted the highest-ranked modern university in the South West by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018. We invest heavily in industry-standard technology and spaces that equip you for life in the creative industries. We want you to get used to the equipment and facilities you will find in the real world. Plus, you are also surrounded by the New Forest, great beaches, and World Heritage Jurassic Coast. Bournemouth boasts excellent nightlife and culture too, and London is just two hours away. We are a practical university with strong ambitions for our graduates to enjoy rewarding careers. Our graduate employment rate is 98%*, the joint highest employment rate of any English university. We consistently achieve outstanding employability results because of the quality of our teaching and our campus and facilities, which prepare our students for employment. We are a gateway to the £92 billion creative industries, which is growing faster than the whole of the UK economy, accounting for 1 in 11 jobs. It is a sector that can be rewarding, exciting, and needs new ways of thinking. The creative industries need someone like you. Our alumni regularly return with incredible stories of things they have done, a business they have created, and awards they have won. The best work happens when different disciplines come together. Everyone here is a creator, and you will get the chance to collaborate with them. No creative subject stands alone at AUB. Cross-fertilization of ideas and techniques benefits everyone, and it is exactly how students will experience the real world. Our collaborations extend beyond courses that work together, to the broader university world and links with industry. Every year we also turn the University into the most significant creative agency on the south coast for 24 hours. Sign up, and you will have the opportunity to work on briefs from some of the most innovative brands today. Past briefs have come from Virgin, Bestival and the RNLI. Our AUB community works to make the world a better place, using creativity to offer solutions to the inequalities and injustices that they see in the world. AUB offers PrepHE, undergraduate and postgraduate awards in art, design, media, and performance. These awards are characterized by an emphasis on studio practice, delivered within a community of creative professionals. Courses have a strong focus on developing the technical and professional skills of students, which leads to highly employable graduates both within their specialist fields and beyond. Collaboration between courses, and between students, is designed to reflect the demands of professional practice how courses work together to provide this professional environment is a crucial feature of the educational environment at the institution. This charter sets out Arts University Bournemouth’s commitment to providing you with a service of the highest quality. You must respond in a positive way to this partnership to take full advantage of the educational opportunities available to you, and realize your full potential. View full university
