Well equipped
With its modern air-conditioned facilities within spacious and recently refurbished buildings, the College offers a comfortable and 'high-tech' learning environment.
The Campus
The growth of the College in the last decade has been phenomenal, and the consequent addition of Hannah House, formerly the management training HQ of Marks & Spencer PLC to the existing six-floor Parliament House building, ensures that our students have a spacious and versatile learning environment.
With the twin sites being only a short walk apart it is easy for staff and students to move from one building to another, and with the contribution of the good social, leisure and sporting facilities at International Students House and the residential accommodation of the London Hostel Association, the College is now able to offer its students an authentic inner-city 'on-campus' experience.
Parliament House
Parliament House, the main building, was occupied in 1997 when the College outgrew Avon House, 500 metres away, which it had occupied since the 1930's.
Parliament House accommodates the main administrative function of the College, two floors of lecture rooms, superbly equipped and airconditioned computer laboratories and a top floor which is entirely devoted to looking after students with a registry and a student services centre that provides accommodation, helps with visa extensions and registers students for their examinations.
Hannah House
The Hannah House annexe houses a new library and learning resource centre, a twenty-eight terminal internet café (which boosts the College internet access to over 100 terminals), a refectory, many more classrooms and, significantly, a new language teaching facility. The addition of a language school allows the College to recruit students from countries whose citizens are not native speakers of English, providing training that can either be taken in advance of a degree programme or simultaneously.
Hannah House also offers students an excellent restaurant, 'The Hannah Café', which is subsidised by the College so students be sure of good quality hot daytime food at highly affordable prices.
Previously the training headquarters of Marks & Spencer, one of England's largest high-street chains, Hannah House was converted into a modern learning environment in 2004 by Lamarflo, specialists in cleanrooms.
Classroom Technology
All lecture rooms incorporate digital technology which is individually controlled by flat-screen computers in-built in the teacher's desk. These computers are networked and are used to record students’ attendance and progress test scores. They are also connected to ceiling mounted digital projectors, thus giving the lecturer the opportunity, via the internet, to bring the commercial world into the classroom.
