Your stay in Oxford will be at the Parade Green Residence, run by our accommodation provider, Unite Students.  Parade Green is one of the newest students residences in the city and is a modern, spacious residence with good public transport links to the city centre and to Ruskin College, where lessons and meals will be delivered.

Check In and Check Out

Arrivals can check in from 16:00 and need to check out on their last day at 10:00.  There are areas around the building where we can store suitcases for you. Please remember to give you room key to a member of CES staff on leaving the building for the last time. 

Your Apartment and Your Room

All of the rooms are organised into apartments with anywhere between 5 - 11 rooms in each one.  Nobody else can enter your apartment except other people who live there.  Each one has a common area, a lounge and a kitchen, where you can meet with other students from your flat. 

• All rooms are single en-suite rooms and have a bed, desk and chair and a wardrobe.  

• There is a small shower with a sink and a toilet

• Bed linen is provided and towels are provided.

• If you need a hairdryer you will need to bring one for yourself

Facilities

Parade Green is one of the newest residences in the city and is purpose-built for student life. It has an excellent range of facilities for students, meeting places and outside sports areas.

• Wi-Fi is available everywhere

• Laundry machines:  washers and dryers are operated through an app which you can transfer money onto from a debit or credit card.  A wash will cost around £5 and drying a little more

• Common room: Social spaces, common areas, outside basketball hoop and small football pitch, barbecue area

• small café nearby and small convenience store

Meals

All meals will be served at our Ruskin Campus and not at the residence (the residence does not have a canteen)

Meal times are as follows:

• Breakfast: 7:15 – 09:00 Monday to Friday, 08:00 – 09:30 Saturday and Sunday

• Lunch:  12:00 – 14:00 Monday to Friday, packed lunch (to be collect at breakfast) on Saturday and Sunday

• Dinner: 18:00 – 19:30 Monday to Friday, 19:00 – 20:30 Saturday and Sunday

Where is Parade Green?

Parade Green is in the Cowley area of Oxford. Your address will be Parade Green, James Wolfe Road, Oxford OX4 2WP.

Transport

Public transport in Oxford is safe, reliable and very regular. It is popular with young people and widely used.

From Monday to Saturday, a CES organised bus will take you to the Ruskin campus for breakfast.  The first bus will leave the Parade Green at 07.:15 in the morning and the next bus will be around 07:40 in the morning.  If you sleep in too late and miss the first bus, then there will not be space in the later one because those seats have already been assigned. You will be assigned a bus BUT  if you do not take up your place, then you will need to use public transport. This is very easy and reliable.

In the evenings, you will need to make your own way back to Parade Green from the Ruskin campus for any evening activities there.

Public buses are very regular (see the timetable for bus number 10 and bus number 100) and leave from the bus stop immediately outside the Parade Green Complex at the bus stop called Paul Kent Hall and take you to near the Ruskin Campus, to the bus stop called Manor Surgery.  The U5 and 100 bus will also take you to and from the city centre.

We strongly recommend that you download the app “UK Bus Checker” from the Google Play Store or the Apple store.   This will show you live times of buses from the stop that you choose.

On Saturdays and Sundays, you will need to make your own way to Ruskin Campus for a traditional breakfast and to pick up your packed lunch, using public transport.  Make sure you do this, or you will not get your lunch pack!! 

Where is Ruskin College?

Ruskin College is a beautiful campus in the Old Headngton area of the city.  It is a lovely green campus, with 10 classrooms and a canteen.  All of your meals are taken at Ruskin College and some parts of your social programme will happen here.