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Pre-course Information 2013

The following details are intended to help you on your arrival in the UK and in Norwich, as well as to give you more information about your course and NILE. We hope that you will enjoy your time in Norwich and that the course will meet your needs and expectations. If at any time during your stay you have any problems with the course, your accommodation, your health, money, etc., there will always be someone available to help you, either your course tutors or the NILE administrative staff.

Course Venue

NILE has two teaching sites, one in the city centre and, in the summer months, the Elizabeth Fry Building at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Information about your course venue will be given to you on arrival.

 Our city centre buildings are in Upper St Giles Street and include Hales Court House, a refurbished 16th century building, and our new teaching building, Delta House, next door. Norwich is a beautiful

medieval city and the course centre is only a 3-minute walk from the city market, main shopping centre and a variety of restaurants and coffee bars. We also have additional city centre classrooms in the Masonic Rooms, a minute’s walk from Hales Court House.

 The University is on the outskirts of Norwich and is set in beautiful parkland. There are several banks, a Post Office, a bookshop, a supermarket and a variety of restaurants and bars on campus. Buses run regularly from UEA to the city centre.

Arrival and Departure

The normal arrival date is the day before the start of your course and your accommodation will be arranged from this date. If you have stated on your enrolment form that you would like to arrive earlier or depart later than your designated dates, this will be taken into account. If you have arranged to arrive earlier or depart later since you sent us your enrolment form, please contact Alison Lake, at registrar@nile-elt.com.

Please tell us if you require any extra nights of accommodation at least 4 weeks before the start of your course.

Homestay Accommodation

If you are staying in homestay accommodation, you will receive a letter with details of your hosts. Please get in touch with them to introduce yourself and provide details of your arrival. With your homestay details, you will also receive a leaflet of advice for students staying in homestay accommodation. Your host will provide you with breakfast and evening meal each day, plus light lunches at weekends, or packed lunch if appropriate. During the week, lunches are available at a variety of restaurants, pubs and cafés in the city centre for courses held at Hales Court House/the Masonic Rooms, or on the university campus for courses held at UEA.

Residential Accommodation (on the University of East Anglia (UEA) campus)

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Social Programme

The course has a programme of evening activities as well as trips to local places of interest. Weekend

excursions to places such as Cambridge will also be organised. The price of the social programme is included in the course fees.

Student Support

There is a team of student support staff here at NILE who will be available to answer any questions you may have, and who will do their very best to help you in any way they can throughout your stay.

Health

Should you need medical attention during your stay you can use the Timberhill Health Centre in the Castle Mall in the city centre. It is open from 7am – 9pm every day and you don’t need an appointment. If you are staying in residential accommodation, a health centre is situated on campus. If you are from Switzerland or a

European Economic Area country (EU, Lichtenstein, Iceland and Norway), the process of receiving healthcare is much easier if you are a holder of a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), which must be obtained before you leave home. However, this does not replace the need for travel insurance. Please note that if you are not from an EEA country or Switzerland and you need to see a doctor or dentist, you will be liable for your full medical expenses. Please therefore ensure that you have adequate insurance to cover your needs. For emergency dental problems, contact the Siskin Centre at the West Norwich Hospital, Bowthorpe Road NR2 3TU, telephone (01603) 776834.

Please ensure you seek medical advice for any ongoing medical concerns before you travel.

Travel Insurance

Before you arrive in the UK, we strongly advise that you take out insurance to cover your travel, personal possessions, money and any medical treatment you may need whilst staying in the UK. Endsleigh Insurance is one company which provides cover specifically designed to meet the needs of international students. If you wish to take out insurance through Endsleigh you can go to their websitewww.endsleigh.co.uk

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You can, of course, use the provider of your choice.

Money and Valuables

If you are staying in homestay accommodation, you will need to bring enough money with you to buy your lunch each week day. If you are staying in residential accommodation, which is normally on a bed and breakfast basis, you will need to bring enough money to buy the rest of your meals. The course fees also include the standard social programme, but you may wish to go on additional trips on your own, or go out in the evenings with other members of the group. You should bring enough money to cover this, as well as for any shopping you may wish to do. NILE is not able to look after students’ personal money, or to cash travellers’ cheques, but the banks and Post Office are within a short walk of the course centre.

Post and Communications

Post: You can arrange for post to be sent to you either at your homestay address, or through the NILE office. The office address is: Norwich Institute for Language Education, 82 Upper St. Giles, Norwich, NR2 1LT, UK.

Messages: You can receive telephone messages (in English) through the NILE office between 09.00 and 17.00. The office telephone number is +44 (0)1603 664473. Please note that you cannot receive telephone calls at the NILE office, as the office is located in a different building from the course centre.

Telephone: Most host families are happy to receive incoming calls for their guests at home. However, some host families prefer their guests not to make outgoing calls from their home telephones. There are payphones

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E-mail: You can send e-mails to the NILE office before you arrive to registrar@nile-elt.com. However, you will not have your own NILE e-mail address, so if you wish to receive e-mails using our computers, you should open your own Hotmail, Yahoo or similar account before you come to Norwich. You will have free access to email and internet facilities at NILE.

Smoking in England

Smoking in enclosed public spaces is banned in England. The ban covers virtually all places including offices, factories, pubs and bars, but not outdoors or in private homes. However, smoking in England has become increasingly unpopular, and even homes permitting smoking often prefer this to be in the garden.

An Introduction to Norwich

Norwich is a modern cultural city with beautiful heritage.

The central streets still follow their medieval plan, flanked by the remaining parts of the ancient city walls, and contain a wealth of historic buildings, including the medieval Guildhall and the Norman Cathedral and Castle. The thoroughly modern Forum, the Riverside development and the new Chapelfield shopping complex further enhance the city’s architectural heritage. The city is a major centre for

education and training, finance and insurance. It has a lively cultural life, with annual festivals and celebrations and a wide range of music and theatrical performances. The Broads and the sandy beaches of the North Norfolk coast provide beautiful surroundings for a city that has formed and preserved its own character. Norwich remains a fine city for citizens and visitors alike. See www.visitnorwich.co.uk and

www.visitnorfolk.co.uk for more details, history and information.

Shopping

As well as accommodating the traditional high-street stores, Norwich has many charming specialist shops and a large open-air market. Since the opening of the Chapelfield shopping centre, Norwich has been repeatedly voted one of the top UK shopping destinations. Shops are open Monday to Saturday between 09.00 and 17.30. Some shops are open on Sundays and many are open late in the evening on Thursdays.

Entertainment

Theatre, jazz, classical music, modern dance, puppet performances and alternative comedy: entertainment in Norwich caters for all ages and tastes. The world-renowned Norwich and Norfolk Festival takes place in May, and the city has six theatres, including the Theatre Royal, the most successful regional theatre in the country, and one of only two puppet theatres in England. The local press and the Tourist Information Centre in the Forum have information about all current events.

Student Life

The city welcomes students from all over the world to the University of East Anglia, Norwich City College and Norwich University College of the Arts. It is a great place to be a student, with good facilities for studying and a vibrant nightlife. The new Millennium Library at the Forum, considered the finest regional library in the UK, is free to join, has plenty of workspaces and Wi-Fi internet access and is an excellent resource for both local and global research.

Sports

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Discovering Norfolk

Norfolk is probably best known for the Broads, shallow lakes linked by rivers, but the county also has a long coastline with everything from sandy beaches to grass-covered sandstone cliffs to flint pebble banks and wide salt marshes. The coast is also dotted with traditional seaside-towns, ideal for fish’n’chips and ice-creams on the beach!

Parks and Rivers

Green open spaces can be found throughout the city. There are 25 parks, gardens and recreation grounds, sometimes also used as open-air venues for musical events, sports and theatre, and the two rivers Wensum and Yare provide beautiful riverside walks.

The University of East Anglia

Architecturally, the University of East Anglia (UEA) boasts some outstanding buildings of the late twentieth century. UEA is considered to be one of the top universities in the country and has an international reputation for teaching and research, as well as being world-famous for Creative Writing and Environmental Studies. The university campus also features the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, one of Britain’s leading galleries and home to works by Picasso, Bacon, Henry Moore and many more. All NILE students can read and work in the university library on campus, although only UEA students can borrow books.

Travel Information

Norwich is the most easterly city in Britain and lies the same distance from London as from the Netherlands (114miles/183km). Links with Europe include direct flights from Norwich International Airport to European destinations, including Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, and ferries from Harwich to the Hook of Holland. The London airports are also easily accessible. Local train services link Norwich with Norfolk’s seaside towns and Broads villages. There are half-hourly train services to London’s Liverpool Street station and direct services to Cambridge, Nottingham, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool.

The following information is intended to help you with your travel to Norwich. If you would like any additional advice, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will do our best to help.

Travelling by Air:

KLM operates several flights a day from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport to Norwich Airport should you wish to fly directly to Norwich (which we strongly recommend). From Schiphol, there are connections worldwide, please visit www.klm.com and www.schiphol.nl for more information. Another option isFlybe, which is a budget airline that operates from Norwich Airport to various European destinations. Information about flights is available on their website at www.flybe.com.

There are also a number of budget airlines operating from Europe to London. Tickets for these airlines are generally booked on the internet, so if you have not already booked your flight, it may be worth looking at the following airlines to see if they fly from your city of departure: EasyJet at www.easyjet.com;RyanAir at

www.ryanair.com.

Norwich Airport

Norwich airport (www.norwichairport.co.uk) is a small, accessible airport from which you can take a taxi to your host family or residential accommodation. Please see the taxi numbers below.

Airport Development Fee A departure fee is now required from all adults departing from Norwich airport. The fee (£10 currently but please check the latest fee) is payable prior to entering the departure lounge.

Stansted, Heathrow and Gatwick Airports

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to carry. If you are travelling by coach and staying in residential accommodation at the University of East Anglia, the coach stops at the University campus. If you are staying in homestay accommodation, you should stay on the coach until it reaches the main Norwich city centre bus station on Surrey Street. From there you can take a taxi to your accommodation. Tickets for the airport coach are from £30 to £50 return, and can be bought on the bus or booked online at www.nationalexpress.co.uk.

For information on how to travel in to London from the airports, see www.gatwickairport.com,

www.heathrowairport.com and www.stanstedairport.com and click on the ‘to and from’ section. All trains to

Norwich from London depart from Liverpool Street Station.

Stansted is by far the closest to Norwich of the three. From here you can also go by train via Cambridge or Ely. For train details, see the web-sites below.

You are strongly advised to book a ticket in advance whether you decide to travel by train or coach, as the coaches can be fully booked and the train tickets are considerably cheaper when booked in advance.

Luton Airport

Luton is not far from Norwich; however, there are no direct public transport links. There is a regular Jetlink bus service from Luton Airport to Norwich via Stansted (www.nationalexpress.co.uk) or you can take a train into London, take the underground to Liverpool Street and a train to Norwich from there (for train-times and information about the underground, see below). However, we have found that a preferable route is a combination of bus and train: catch the Jetlink bus to Cambridge bus station, then take a taxi from the bus station to the railway station and from there take a train from Cambridge to Norwich. See websites below for fares and timetables.

London City Airport

If you fly into London City Airport (www.londoncityairport.com), you can travel to Norwich by train from either Liverpool Street Station or Stratford Station via the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) and the underground (see

www.tfl.gov.uk). For train information, see below.

Travelling on Eurostar:

If you are travelling on the Eurostar, (www.eurostar.com), you will arrive at London St. Pancras. From London it is easiest to travel to Norwich by train. The train to Norwich leaves from Liverpool Street Station and it is easy to get there by underground. See www.tfl.gov.uk for details.

Harwich International Port:

Harwich International Port is approximately 67 miles/108 km from Norwich and has passenger ferries from the Hook of Holland, Rotterdam and Esbjerg. For more information please visit the Harwich International Port homepage at www.harwich.co.uk. From Harwich you can travel to Norwich by train, changing at Manningtree. The journey time is about 1 hour 30 minutes. See website below for times and fares.

Trains:

To find train timetables and the cost of trains, go to www.nationalrail.co.uk/planmyjourney or

www.thetrainline.com .

The train station in Norwich is at the bottom of Prince of Wales Road. When you arrive, you can get a taxi to your host’s house or to theUniversity of East Anglia ifyou are staying in residential accommodation. Bus numbers 25, 25A and 25X also go directly to UEA from the train station.

The approximate length of the journey from London Liverpool Street to Norwich is 1 hour 50 minutes.

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Other Travel Information:

For details of the London underground visit: http://www.tfl.gov.uk

Coach travel in the UK: www.nationalexpress.co.uk

Local travel (trains and buses) in Norwich and Norfolk: www.travelineeastanglia.org.uk (choose East Anglia)

Norwich Taxi numbers:

Courtesy Taxis +44 (0)1603 446 644 Bestways Taxis +44 (0)1603 666 666 ABC Taxis +44 (0)1603 666 333

Important information on entry to the UK

Participants from some countries may require a UK entry visa. If this applies to you, please contact the Registrar as soon as possible for a supporting letter to help you obtain a student visitor visa(6 months). It is not possible to obtain a re-entry visa in Britain. If you wish to visit other countries while in the UK, you must obtain a multiple

entry visa while you are in your own country. Police Registration: Citizens of some countries may need to register with the police. If so, this will be stamped in your passport. After you arrive at NILE, please contact the Registrar, who will arrange a suitable time for you to do this. The Home Office UK Border Agency’s website

www.ukvisas.gov.uk has detailed information on entry requirements to the UK. Alternatively, please contact the Registrar for assistance.

For more information on your enrolment or for any additional enquiries, please contact the Registrar on registrar@nile-elt.com

82 Upper St. Giles Street Norwich NR2 1LT UK Tel: +44 (0) 1603 66 44 73 Fax: +44 (0) 1603 66 44 93

Web: www.nile-elt.com

In emergencies only, please call +44 (0) 7889 649768 to reach a member of staff, 24 hours a day.

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