Student Case Studies

Jafan is an asylum seeker from Iraq.Prior to leaving Iraq, Jafan studied psychology at university, which he loved. He had been planning to further his studies with a Master’s or Doctorate degree.Jafan had learnt some English at sch...

Olena came to the UK from Ukraine in April 22. Before leaving Ukraine, she had a career as an Accountant. When she first arrived, Olena felt it was essential for her to improve her English language skills to help her to integrate into societ...

Adonay is an Aylum Seeker from Eritrea. The College was recommended by his social worker and he is now in his second year studying English.His favourite part of the course has been working on a pantomime where students were required to read, lear...

Hashim left his home country of Ethiopia and eventually came to the UK to study, in order to improve his English skills and job prospects. The College was recommended to Hashim by his keyworker, and he commented that he was surprised at how ...

Originally from Sudan, Mo enrolled on ESOL Entry Level 3 and then progressed onto our Motor Vehicle Entry Level Diploma.Now on Motorsports Level 3, he chose to go into the Motor industry as he is "interested in cars and I want to g...

In her home country of Italy, Pamela chose a school specialising in languages, where she studied English, Spanish and French. She wanted to then come to the UK to improve her English before going to university. Pamela commented that the acti...

Petra joined East Surrey College after moving from her home country of Hungary, and speaking very little English. “I could say yes, no, thank you… that was about it!”Despite initially joining at ESOL Entry Level 1, her dedicati...