History

Hockerill enjoys a rich and varied heritage. Originally established in the early 1850s, it was a teacher training college until 1978.

It re-opened in 1980 as a co-educational boarding school until 1994 when it became grant maintained Hockerill Anglo-European School. 1998 proved to be a defining year, as the school underwent a dramatic transformation into Hockerill Anglo-European College. In the process it:-

became one of the country’s first specialist language colleges;
offered a sixth form provision for the first time;
chose the International Baccalaureate Diploma programme as the only course of sixth form study.

Progress and innovation

Since then the College has doubled in size, with over 700 students around a third of whom are boarders from Europe and beyond. There are over 50 cosmopolitan, carefully selected, teachers – most at least bilingual - and double that number including support staff. We pioneered language school-university partnerships when we joined the University of Nottingham in training future language teachers.

Equally significantly our close working and cultural links with a network of partner schools throughout Europe offers all our students the opportunity for regular visits and prolonged study abroad.