ISSOS - who we are

ISSOS offers 13 – 18 year olds a balanced summer experience of academia, fun and culture, where students can learn within an encouraging and supportive environment while having fun and making new friends from around the world.

The historic and cultural locations of Cambridge and St Andrews provide safe, stimulating and inspirational campuses for the International Summer Schools of Scotland. We offer our students the opportunity of a summer adventure of a lifetime where the focus is on personal safety and wellbeing, quality individual instruction and a unique international experience – we attract students from over 60 nationalities.

ISSOS was founded to provide a well balanced, supervised summer program to international students and expose them to the UK as a place to travel and study. ISSOS prides it self on offering students a safe summer experience while at the same time providing them the freedom to grow.

Watch a chat with some of our teachers and Director to understand a little more about ISSOS

Teachers' qualifications and experience

Students at the Highland Games At ISSOS we take pride in using only highly qualified and motivated staff. All our teachers have been carefully selected from academic institutions around the world for their qualifications, expertise and experience and bring with them an energy and enthusiasm for teaching and interacting with young people, within both our academic and extra-curricular programmes. There is a staff student ratio of 1:5 and classes are intentionally kept small in order to provide individual attention and personalised instruction.

As well as providing high quality academic standards for our summer students, our teachers are also dormitory residents and are backed up by counselors who act as role models and provide pastoral care. The success of our summer programmes rests on the dedication and enthusiasm of our teachers and counselors and their common goal of making ISSOS a truly unique and exciting experience for every student.