David Game College is a leading Independent College located in Tower Hill, London for kids aged 13 to 22. Founded in 1974, inspected by Ofsted, the College has consistently delivered the best quality teaching to ensure success. David Game College offers a wide range of courses at GCSE and A Level for those students who wish to follow a more in-depth and traditional route to university. The College also offers University Foundation Programmes and English as a foreign Language at Kensington Academy of English.
Facilities
The college has a boardroom, music room and 50 person capacity dance floor available for hire. There is a disabled access to the college and a lift to all floors.
Features
Things to note
The library provides students with a place to work in a quiet and comfortable environment and contains reference books, past examination papers, university prospectuses and the internet.
David Game College has its own servers that support Internet and web-based applications throughout the College. All students and staff have free access to the web through Wi-Fi and the College has an advanced filtering system that allows students to surf the web in a safe and secure manner.
The College has three custom built laboratories – a physics laboratory and a new biology and chemistry laboratory.
The College has a well-resourced Art Room as well as ICT facilities and Photoshop software.
Photography is taught using a suite of Mac computers, a darkroom and a photographic studio for shooting portraits and still-life, complete with new studio flash and tungsten lights and three professional backgrounds.
The canteen in David Game College provides facilities for students to eat their own snacks or to buy hot and cold drinks.
The Co-Principals, assisted by Senior Management Team, will be responsible for the admission of students.
The main entry points to the College are at 14, 16 and 18.
Admission is generally at the beginning of the academic year, which is in September. (18 month - five term - A Level courses commence in January). Admission at other times and into other years can often be accommodated subject to the availability of places.
Transfer from GCSE or IGCSE classes to AS level is subject to satisfactory performance at GCSE and the availability of appropriate courses of study at A-level.
Applicants should have the required background experience and qualifications to start a course. For a typical A level course, the College normally requires 5 GCSE passes at grades A* - C / 9 - 4, including English and Mathematics. A satisfactory IELTS score is an alternative to GCSE.
Applicants are not selected by entry tests but the College does sometimes use diagnostic tests to ascertain what level of understanding a student may have in a subject.
The College will outline the options available and explain the different Tiers in Mathematics and Statistics GCSE/IGCSE. Applicants are informed that any decision relating to Higher or Foundation Tiers will be determined by the subject Tutor after one term.
Scholarship tests are available for students whose previous performance at school or college indicates a special talent or ability.
Each applicant will be interviewed by a Vice Principal or another senior and experienced member of staff. The style of the interview is intended to be natural and informal, and provides an opportunity for the family to take its own decision over the education on offer as well as for the College to learn about the family and the applicant. The selection process differs between “home” students and those who need a UK visa in order to study (see Pre-CAS).
The College sets other criteria for entry which it may explore at interview. These are that:
the applicant is of the appropriate age and sufficient maturity;
the applicant enjoys satisfactory general health;
the applicant's learning difficulties and other special needs (if any) can, in the opinion of the Principal and Vice Principals, be managed within the College’s normal provision;
reports from the applicant’s present or most recent school indicate satisfactory attitudes and conduct on the part of parents and applicant;
where the applicant’s present school is fee-paying, all fees have been paid and the parents are able, if required, to satisfy the Principal and Vice Principals that they are in a position to pay the fees of the courses applied for.
Applicants will be made aware of any additional selection tests that they may be required to take if it is their intention to seek a university course in Law (LNAT), medicine or Dentistry (UKCAT) or entry to certain universities (BMAT).
If you would like to apply for one of scholarships please contact us using the form below. For more information on scholarship requirements please visit the GCSE and A level Scholarship information pages listed. Ever since the College was founded, they have followed the principle that we should offer the benefit of expert tuition in small groups to students of all abilities. It gives great satisfaction to take a mid-grade GCSE student and improve his or her performance to A or B grades at A level in order to help the student qualify for a good university. Equally, they take great pride in helping academically bright students fulfil their potential by going on to elite universities like Oxford and Cambridge. David Game College is pleased to offer a variety of scholarships to students who demonstrate potential that can be nurtured by us and above all have a hunger to work hard to achieve the best they can.These scholarships are available for our GCSE, A level and University Foundation Programme, for more information please click here.
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