Course Summary
Course Objectives
Over the course of this two-week programme, you will:
- Discover the fundamentals of starting up and operating a business in today’s society
- Learn how businesses market and brand their products, applying this to your own ideas in a Time To Shine project
- Identify how business finances work so that businesses can break even and make a profit
- Take part in our exciting Time to Shine ceremony, and pitch the idea for a start-up business with your classmates to the rest of the school
- Develop and apply core 21st-century skills through fun and engaging lessons, including critical thinking, communication, creativity and collaboration
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- Price: £5,995
- For ages: 16-17
- Course length: 2 Weeks
- English level: B1+ (Intermediate and above)
- Maximum Class Size: 15
- Academic Content: 25 Hours Per Week
- Starting Dates: 30th June, 14th July & 28th July 2024
- Language Support: Included
- Location: University of Oxford
Accommodation
All of our students will live on-site at an Oxford university college in comfortable accommodation in a mixture of single and shared rooms. Bathroom facilities will be shared between accommodation blocks. All rooms come with Wi-Fi access.
Extracurricular Activities
Alongside a wide range of traditional team sports, students can choose to participate in other wellbeing and fun activities such as yoga, art, poetry and creative sessions. Our social programme is led by the College Mentors with students at the very heart of it, who choose and shape the programme’s activities around their interests.

Taking place across three different Oxford campuses, SBC Oxford College gives students the chance to improve their English skills by studying one of the six subjects on offer.