
Have you got your sights set on becoming an entrepreneur? Our Business Challenge course will provide the perfect platform to put your business ideas to the test. Bring along your ideas and enthusiasm and test them against the reality of business management to unveil the strength of your strategy. Spend two weeks on the campus of the prestigious University of Oxford where you will work as a team and navigate your idea through real-life obstacles such as marketing and budget control. You will have the exciting opportunity to create a pitch and present your team’s chosen product to the judges and your peers. You’ll get to grips with what it takes to produce a successful brief; from research and objective setting, to mission statements, marketing and budget. This course is guaranteed to give you a taste of life as an entrepreneur.
Join our Business Challenge Summer School with Oxford Royale Academy, and launch your business career.
Through a series of presentations and practical exercises, this course focuses primarily on developing a new business or product and encourages you to think about the effect businesses have had on your daily life. You are introduced to different aspects of business through various scenarios, including setting up a new business, getting funding, developing a unique product and pitching it to the rest of the class.
The Design-an-App Challenge provides a hands-on insight into the fast-moving world of mobile app development and its market. The workshop is designed to encourage you to apply your own ideas through interactive tasks and group activities: learn how to make an effective and persuasive presentation, think about the opportunities and challenges involved in the development of innovative new products or technologies, and consider the most effective strategies to market and advertise such new and non-tangible ‘products’. This workshop will develop your skills as well as give an insight into the world of business and e-commerce.
By the end of the course, you will have:
The New Perspectives Programme is Oxford Royale’s most popular and flexible summer course for ages 13-15. Providing the opportunity to tailor your preferred course by combining multiple options from our extensive selection, New Perspectives is ideal for students looking for a broader academic summer experience.
Find out more hereAfter your amazing summer of discovery, we know that you’ll want to share your success with your family, friends and teachers back at home. We also know that you’ll want to understand from your ORA tutor what you did particularly well on your course, but also where there might be room for future learning and development.
After successfully completing your course, you’ll receive a graduation certificate, awarded at a memorable ceremony hosted for you and your parents on the final Friday of your summer school. We’ll also provide a detailed report card, highlighting all that you have achieved during your time with us, as well as some next steps for future success.
Our dynamic Business Challenge workshop has been designed to get you thinking about what makes a good business strategy, as you start up your own entrepreneurial brainchild and test it against the practical realities of business management. Negotiate real-life obstacles such as marketing, budgeting, and discover the importance of leadership and teamwork in a business context. You are encouraged to be innovative and consider your own role in the launching of a hypothetical new product.
You have the opportunity to develop any idea of your group’s choice, in order to exercise your creativity to the full. Present a brief in which you describe your product, outline your mission statement and corporate objectives, present a marketing audit consisting of your own primary and secondary research, outline your marketing objectives and marketing strategy as well as financial considerations. The main aim of the workshop is to consolidate class-based learning and encourage you to be business leaders – creative, innovative and team-spirited.
By the end of the course, you will have:
Take this as one of your options in the Broadening Horizons programme, ORA’s most popular summer programme for ages 16-18. With the opportunity to tailor your course by combining multiple subjects, Broadening Horizons is the ideal programme choice for students looking for a broader academic summer school experience.
Find out more hereAfter your amazing summer of discovery, we know that you’ll want to share your success with your family, friends and teachers back at home. We also know that you’ll want to understand from your ORA tutor what you did particularly well on your course, but also where there might be room for future learning and development.
After successfully completing your course, you’ll receive a graduation certificate, awarded at a memorable ceremony hosted for you and your parents on the final Friday of your summer school. We’ll also provide a detailed report card, highlighting all that you have achieved during your time with us, as well as some next steps for future success.
After the devastating year we have all had with COVID-19, we need something to look forward to. Our award winning summer school is back for summer 2021! Get ready for an inspirational summer of unparalleled learning as you make new friends from around the world. Discover hidden passions and hidden talents, open your mind to new possibilities, and experience world class culture. Join us for an unforgettable summer!
What’s life like at the oldest university in the English-speaking world? Join us this summer to find out! Your Oxford summer school is hosted in historic residential colleges where you will experience authentic undergraduate life. Sleep in student bedrooms set in centuries-old quadrangles, socialise in vibrant student common rooms, and relax in glorious college gardens. Take your place in vaulted halls where students have dined for over eight centuries. Learn in lecture theatres and laboratories where groundbreaking discoveries have been made, and study in the classrooms where 55 Nobel prize winners developed the key academic and life skills crucial for future success.
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to make a new discovery at the cutting edge of science? Would you like to learn what it’s like to study in an Oxford tutorial, a Cambridge supervision, or in a top British boarding school? Or explore whether university study in your favourite subject is really for you?
Whatever your motivation, our exceptional, inspiring, world-leading teachers can help you achieve more this summer. Our amazing array of talented tutors includes Oxbridge academics, Ivy League lecturers, groundbreaking medical researchers, glittering industry leaders in film and fashion, acclaimed authors, and more!
We assemble our diverse faculty from all over the world, exclusively for you, so you only learn from the very best. Every tutor will guide you on your path to future greatness.
Baron William Hague of Richmond speaks at our Great Debate event in Oxford
We know that you’re already passionate about your chosen subject. But have you ever wanted to find out more about another field, to explore paths as yet undiscovered? Wouldn’t it be great to listen to and debate with leading figures from the worlds of culture, media, sport and academia, while boosting your confidence and public speaking skills?
Here at ORA, we can help with that! In Oxford, you will enjoy fantastic talks from world-renowned guest speakers, from eminent Cabinet Ministers and ambassadors, to celebrated explorers and globally esteemed businessmen and women, all of whom are ready to share the secrets of their success with you. Unique among Oxford summer schools, our guest lecture programmes will help you to explore and debate the challenges facing the world today, from climate change to global security and the spread of misinformation, boosting your summer of learning even further!
Summer should be fun, right?! Don’t worry, we get that – we never forget that you’re on holiday!
We can help you to uncover Oxford’s secrets, from the best coffee shops to the dreamiest riverside parks, from Oxford’s very own castle to must-visit shops, galleries and museums. You and your friends will enjoy an amazing extra-curricular timetable, including dazzling graduation balls, excursions offering a glimpse of Britain’s past, and much more.
Make Instagram-worthy memories as you visit glitzy attractions such as the bright lights of London’s theatres, Windsor Castle, and Blenheim Palace.
Would you like to network with high achievers from over 170 countries, and gain your own taste of the Oxford experience? And would you like to visit classic venues such as the Ashmolean, the world’s oldest university museum? Or Oxford’s Grand Cafe, site of England’s first coffee house? If so, our parents’ events are definitely for you!
At the beginning of each summer school, we invite students’ parents, families and carers to join us for a reception hosted at a stunning Oxford venue. Mingle with other high flyers, and meet senior ORA staff and company founders who will be delighted to answer your questions about the summer school. Build new connections while enjoying an exclusive peek into the experiences that your children will enjoy this summer. We can’t wait to meet you!
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