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Cardiff Academy is an Independent Sixth Form College offering high-quality tuition from academically well qualified teachers with many years professional teaching experience in a wide variety of schools and colleges in the UK. Class sizes in all A-level and GCSE subjects are capped at a maximum of eight, thereby allowing each student an enormous level of academic support and individual guidance compared with other schools.

Our educational ethos is centred entirely upon the individual student, their parents and the family unit as a whole. Our aim is to provide a caring, friendly, nurturing environment in which students are happy and secure and in which parents have easy and immediate access to those who teach their children.

Schools in the private sector today in both England and Wales are run mainly by business and marketing managers. In this respect Cardiff Academy is most unusual – possibly unique – in being run entirely by teachers. This key difference underpins everything we do. In particular it allows us to run The Academy more on the lines of an extended family than an “institution”. Consequently, the process of monitoring academic progress, guiding students through their problems, reinforcing self-belief and giving all students the confidence they need to set their academic and career sights as high as possible is the responsibility of the entire teaching staff.

Cardiff Academy is best seen as a staging-post between school and University. Students at Cardiff Academy have freedom from the more anachronous and petty rules common at school. However, the other side of this coin is that the onus of responsibility for decision-making and its consequences falls much more on each student as an individual. This especially includes all aspects of student life associated with academic work, such as getting to classes on time, completing homework assignments to strict deadlines, producing work that is as good as it can possibly be, thinking critically and asking questions. Only in this way can students at GCSE and A-level develop the skills needed to survive at University where, of course, the rules are minimal and the ability to work independently and unaided is the key to success.

Dr. Wilson, Principal