Summer & Winter Schools

Academic English Winter School - Cambridge

Academic English Winter School - Chelmsford

Our project-focused 3-week Winter Schools are for anyone who wants to improve their English and undertake extensive study into their subject. You will experience the benefits of university teaching and our excellent campus facilities. The course can be taken in Cambridge, where you will be able to choose from a range of specific subjects, or Chelmsford (Business only).

English as a Foreign Language

Degree Pre-sessional courses

These short, intensive programmes of 24 study sessions per week prepare you for entry to a degree course. They are especially suitable for Tier 4 students. If you complete one, you do not have to retake IELTS or any other English language test to progress to your Anglia Ruskin degree. Pre-sessional courses are full time study and your lessons will be between 9 and 5 each day (excluding weekends). The following pre-sessional courses are available:

• Undergraduate 4 weeks (IELTS or equivalent at entry 5.5)
• Undergraduate 8 weeks (IELTS or equivalent at entry 5)
• Postgraduate 4 weeks (IELTS or equivalent at entry 6)
• Postgraduate 8 weeks (IELTS or equivalent at entry 5.5)

English with Academic Skills

These courses will improve your writing, listening, speaking, presentation and study skills. They are available at four levels: Basic, Foundation, Competent and Advanced. Successful completion of the Foundation course will give you the required level of English to join our partner institution, CRIC (Cambridge Ruskin International College). Successful completion of the Competent and Advanced level programmes will allow you direct entry to Undergraduate and Postgraduate degree courses respectively. The following EAS courses are available:

• English with Academic Skills 6 weeks
• English with Academic Skills 12 weeks
• English with Academic Skills 14 weeks
• English with Academic Skills 6 months (for Science, Business and Technology students)

IELTS Preparation

These courses provide expert preparation for those who need to retake IELTS for their Anglia Ruskin University offer (having met all other conditions), their job or for immigration access to university courses anywhere else in the world. We offer both full and part-time IELTS preparation courses, and provide examination at Cambridge's only IELTS test centre. The following IELTS preparation courses are available:

• Full time, 6 weeks
• Part-time, 12 weeks

IELTS Bootcamp

We are currently developing part-time IELTS Bootcamp courses for people already in the UK, with quite a good knowledge of English, who:

• Want intensive practice just before taking the test
• Need to get a specific score in the IELTS test, for a university offer, for example
• Might have taken the IELTS before but not achieved the score they require and therefore must take it again

Our IELTS tests measure the English language ability of candidates and indicates whether they are ready to study or train in English. Anglia Ruskin University is one of the largest IELTS testing centres in the UK, offering around 5,000 test places over 38 test dates per year.

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Other language programmes and exams

Academic and Professional Skills support modules

If English is not your first language you are able (or we may advise you) to take one of these English language modules to support you during your studies. You can take this as a 15-credit module each year so your language support is available at no extra cost to you, and your language learning counts towards your final degree.


Anglia Language Programme (ALP)

The Anglia Language Programme offers all Anglia Ruskin University students the opportunity to study a foreign language as part of their modular programme.


Diplomas in Spanish as a Foreign Language (DELE)

The Diplomas in Spanish as a Foreign Language (DELE) are official qualifications awarded by the Instituto Cervantes on behalf of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport to certify the level of competence and proficiency in using the Spanish language. Anglia Ruskin University's Language Services Unit is an accredited DELE Examination Centre, providing preparation courses for the DELE examinations.

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