Collingham College

Collingham College is an independent, co-educational GCSE and sixth form college in Earl's Court, west London. It was founded in 1975 and teaches around 150 students aged 13 to 19. The defining feature is class size. Collingham teaches in classes of nine students or fewer, in two hour discussion-based lessons rather than the shorter periods used by most schools. The A-Level department is at 23 Collingham Gardens and the GCSE department at 16 Young Street in Kensington. The subject list is unusually wide for a college of this size, running to more than 35 A-Levels and covering languages that larger institutions rarely offer, including Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish. The college states that it can accommodate non-mainstream choices such as Philosophy, Ancient Greek and Modern Hebrew, and unusual subject combinations across multiple exam boards. Fees are set by the number of subjects taken rather than as a single full-time charge, so a student taking one or two A-Levels pays considerably less than one taking a full programme.