Information about next year's courses available November 2010
Archive (courses July 2010)
Photos by James Kellie
Summer School 2010 - fees and bookings
FEES: All summer courses: £320.00
BOOKINGS : To book a summer course, please download and complete the enrolment form and send it to BSS with a non-returnable booking fee of £100 for each course booked.
CANCELLATIONS: A scale of cancellation charges will apply for summer course bookings, so you are strongly advised to take out suitable insurance cover. Refunds will be given in strict accordance with the following scale, LESS the booking fee:
Six weeks notice: 100 %
Three weeks but less than six weeks: 50 %
Under three weeks: No refund
BSS Bursary Scheme
Bloomsbury Summer School runs a modest bursary scheme, which offers unfilled places on its courses to eligible applicants for one hundred pounds less than the advertised price. There are two categories of such applicants: former students who have already taken at least one course with BSS and newcomers enrolling for their first one in 2010 (the latter are only eligible for a bursary on an additional course).
Eligible students who wish to join the scheme are welcome to do so, and the earlier they apply, the better their chances of gaining a bursary. They need only email or send in a brief statement of their wishes, putting their chosen courses in order of preference. They may apply for as many courses as they like and apply again every year. All they need do, after they have sent in an application, is try to keep their diaries clear of important engagements for the relevant week(s). The process of awarding bursary places usually begins in May.
There is, of course, no guarantee that a bursary place on a given course will arise at all, and even when bursary places do become available, they sometimes do so rather late in the day, as a consequence of last minute student cancellation. However, there are usually courses with a few places available on them and more often than not courses are affected by late withdrawals.
