OSL in the Community
Welcome to OSL in the Community. This page details what steps OSL is taking to help the community both local, national and international.
- 1. Individual student.
Each year we take on one student and teach that student entirely free of charge. This is individual tuition that would normally cost upwards of £10,000 a year. The teacher is not paid and devotes his/her time free. The criteria we use to determine who to teach free varies but usually it is because of one or more of the following:
- The student suffers from a serious disability and is struggling to study elsewhere.
- The student is financially impoverished – yet shows an earnest desire to succeed.
- The student has studied with us before but owing to illness/exam nerves has not succeed in his/her examinations and so if offered free tuition.
This year (2003-4) we are teaching Xu Chang (‘Cynthia’). She is studying A level Accountancy and is hoping to be accepted by Oxford University. Although Cynthia could have paid for study, it would have meant that she’d be working 40+ hours a week in a restaurant. This would have made her study especially difficult. In the past Cynthia attended a college elsewhere and was very badly taught. At the time, although we knew about this, we could do nothing as her visa was through the other college and to change colleges would have caused accusations of breach of contract etc.
When her exam results came out they were…poor.
- 2. Students worldwide.
Oxford School of Learning offers online tuition totally free of charge to students worldwide. Currently we only offer Business Studies but in future years we may offer Economics as well. This tuition is entirely free and is not supported by advertising or any form of commercial sponsorship. We do not even know the students’ names as pseudonyms are used. (Is there really a student called ‘Mickey Mouse’?) We do not wait for students to come to us but actively advertise in the ‘Tuition’ section of www.dailyinformation.co.uk Other firms/colleges/businesses also offer tuition online but all charge. No-one has anything like our success rate with students achieving grade A/B after only a matter of weeks.
- 3. Support of charities.
Oxford School of Learning has long supported The Dystonia Society. Over the past few years we have raised hundreds of pounds by running revision conferences at schools throughout the UK. These conferences are ‘free’ in the sense that all the funds go to The Dystonia Society. We also use the conferences to raise awareness of this crippling disease. We have now considerably expanded these services and have established separate website detailing our new aims and objectives. This is at www.dystonia-support4u.co.uk. Please visit there and you will see details of the national essay competition, the dystonia book (‘democratically edited’) that will be given FREE to all sufferers from dystonia. The establishment of this site – which aims to provide specific help to the thousands of sufferers from dystonia who are not even in The Dystonia Society and/or do not have access to a PC – is unique in that it offers finance and tangible resources to dystonia sufferers (‘dystonics’) throughout the UK. Clearly the publication and distribution of a book for dystonics is an enormous task and will cost 00s, possibly 000s of pounds – therefore please consider helping.
In addition to providing books to dystonics, the essay competition will raise awareness among schools of the disease Dystonia. This develops the conferences that have been running the last few years. These conferences will, of course, continue but the funds raised will now be allocated to specific uses.
In devising the dystonia site we have managed to reach agreement with American providers to jointly run an international newsletter and to jointly produce at least one book specifically for dystonia sufferers. Channel 5 is shortly to feature a documentary on Dystonia and hopefully this will further stimulate interest.
Future products include the creation of a CD and the provision of leaflets, books and ‘dystonia-aids’ such as pillows, cushions etc
Remember that Oxford School of Learning is not a charity, not a Trust and not a ‘not-for-profit’ organisation. These services are provided to dystonics because there is such a need and it is felt that there is room for great achievements here.
- 4. We also help local schools where possible:
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