The Tuition System

All courses are supported by one-to-one tuition. You can use post or email to send your assignments to your tutor for a written report, feedback and advice. You will be in contact with your tutor at regular intervals. For many of our courses (in Fine Art, Textiles and Composing Music), you can opt to see your tutor face-to-face. Your choice of tutorial method should suit your personal circumstances, but both methods are designed to give you close and detailed support. Please note that, because of the nature of the medium, sculpture students always meet their tutor face-to-face.


Distance tuition

You are allocated a tutor and receive their details in your course pack. You work from the course materials and send regular assignments to your tutor. These are returned to you with comment and advice. The course fee includes tutor feedback on your set assignments, but you can purchase feedback and comment on additional pieces of work if you wish.

Face-to-face tuition

You choose a tutor within travelling distance and you meet them at mutually agreeable times and dates. You are entitled to an agreed number of hours’ tuition – typically five hours. Tutors work from their own studios or other suitable teaching space. Where appropriate, and with students’ consent, small tutor groups may be formed from individual enrolments as an alternative to one-to-one tuition as a way of increasing contact time. As for Distance tuition, you can also purchase additional tuition on an individual basis. You can find out where your nearest tutor is by contacting Academic Services on 0800 731 2116. For face-to-face tuition, there is a £50 supplement to be paid, which can be taken over the phone when having your nearest tutor allocated to you.


Studying at home

For an information sheet on studying at home, click here - OCA's Guide to Studying at home PDF Top