Under the guidance of Rory Wilkinson, our former company chairman, who took over the management of Buckswood Summer Programmes, the company started in a new direction in 2007 and began to expand rapidly, running more courses in new locations across the country.
Recognising that high-achieving and well-motivated individual students wanted more from a UK summer school than just English language, excursions and afternoon activities, the company developed more challenging courses such as Young Leaders, World University Preparation, Arts Choice and Advanced Studies and located their courses for older students in many Oxford and Cambridge University colleges. The company further provided more choice, more activities, more lessons, more excursions, more ‘wow’ factor for its younger students.
In order to avoid confusion with the old Buckswood Grange School, the company rebranded to ‘Bucksmore Summer Programmes’ in 2009, and then to ‘Bucksmore Education’ in 2012. During this period the high standards, academic rigour, originality and fantastic locations of Bucksmore courses gave the brand a growing reputation as more and more students wanted to spend their summers on Bucksmore courses.
With ‘first English Language experience abroad’ courses designed for 7 – 10
Under the guidance of Rory Wilkinson, our former company chairman, who took over the management of Buckswood Summer Programmes, the company started in a new direction in 2007 and began to expand rapidly, running more courses in new locations across the country.
Recognising that high-achieving and well-motivated individual students wanted more from a UK summer school than just English language, excursions and afternoon activities, the company developed more challenging courses such as Young Leaders, World University Preparation, Arts Choice and Advanced Studies and located their courses for older students in many Oxford and Cambridge University colleges. The company further provided more choice, more activities, more lessons, more excursions, more ‘wow’ factor for its younger students.
In order to avoid confusion with the old Buckswood Grange School, the company rebranded to ‘Bucksmore Summer Programmes’ in 2009, and then to ‘Bucksmore Education’ in 2012. During this period the high standards, academic rigour, originality and fantastic locations of Bucksmore courses gave the brand a growing reputation as more and more students wanted to spend their summers on Bucksmore courses.
With ‘first English Language experience abroad’ courses designed for 7 – 10 years to high-level leadership and advanced studies courses for 15-17-year-olds, students dedicated to Bucksmore could return each year on a different more challenging course.
In 2014, after acquiring Homelingua, a home tuition company based in Oxford, Bucksmore started to provide intensive home tuition in addition to its summer schools and year-round courses and formed ‘Bucksmore Homelingua’. In 2020, Bucksmore Homelingua rebranded to Bucksmore Home Tuition.
Bucksmore Education is full of history and tradition, but also of originality and challenge. With 40 years of experience to perfect and improve the quality of our prestigious summer schools, we are proud of the summer programmes we offer. It is our goal to support every student towards achieving their goals, in a safe and positive learning environment, whether this is building on their language skills, developing fundamental 21st century leadership skills and a global mindset or studying at a top UK boarding school or university.
As of 2021, Bucksmore Education is now part of the Nord Anglia Education family, the world’s leading premium international schools organisation and we are more excited than ever before to explore the future and develop the outstanding offerings to students from across the world.
