AN OXFORD college has launched free English courses exclusively for people affected by the war in Ukraine.
The course at Oxford Business College – the city’s oldest independent business school – will run for 12 weeks.
In an announcement, the college said: “As destruction worsens and casualties mount, leaving behind everything, Ukrainian people migrate to foreign lands.
“To help them resettle, we have decided to do what we are best at – educating.
“Communication might be a significant obstacle to restarting a life from scratch, as the majority of the migrated people do not know foreign languages, especially English.”
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The college says that the 12-week course is free for anybody from the war zone.
Affected people can join the online course from anywhere in the world, after ‘providing proof of their origin and migration’.
Lecturers from the college will be teaching the twice-weekly classes, which aim to ‘provide the students with basic English language skills for business, which would help migrated people get employment or start a business’.
Last month, the college officially celebrated the launch of new campuses across the country.
Disrupted due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event at Oxford Town Hall marked the opportunity to celebrate the college’s new campuses in London, Coventry, Nottingham and Slough.
The pandemic meant the campuses opened at different stages, with teaching either online or a hybrid of virtual and in-person.
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