Term Time Courses
Build your confidence and extend your skills with our short online courses. The courses have weekly classes and last for 4 to 6 weeks.
The courses from 20 April to 30 May 2026 focus on speaking skills, see below and follow the links for further details.
Speaking skills:
Build your confidence in communicating in general English, with a clear focus on speaking, listening and language (grammar and vocabulary). This will support your communication in all contexts: study, social, work.
Improve your structure, language and phrasing for academic presentations. Learn how to use narrative to make presentations more engaging and how to deliver group presentations more effectively.
Develop your confidence and learn key language for communicating with students and staff in seminars, group work and tutorials. Improve your speaking skills by focusing on fluency and functional language eg agreeing/disagreeing, speculating, clarifying, introducing ideas.
Intensive courses
We offer intensive Academic English Skills courses during the winter and spring holiday periods.
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Gemma Courtney-Davies, MA Graphic Design Communication, Camberwell College of Arts
Academic English resources
Academic English resources and useful links for art and design studies (PDF 1.2MB).
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Realf Heygate,BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins
Machine translation tools
Student guide to the use of machine translation tools.
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Cats and interiors by India Tuersley
Online resources
Academic support resources to help you communicate and make the most of being part of a diverse global community.
