Our Summer School Lead Designer
Benji
”After graduating from Oxford University I first worked in a training center in South Korea, before moving to China and working in international schools. I now have over 12 years experience in helping students apply for elite global universities. I have previously run summer schools in Oxford and Cambridge for a variety of school and university partners, as Director of Operations in my previous role. In co-founding Lucky Bay I wanted to provide a holistic service that helps ensure all aspects of a student’s preparation for university applications combine to give students the best chance of success. In our summer school design I have focused on what I know works best for students, based on my successful experiences of helping students apply for elite universities, and my own academic success. All our summer schools, in the UK or Australia, help students explore future potential university majors, and gain a deeper understanding of both their personal strengths, and future path towards their goals. I believe that this approach is the best use of summer schools, serving as part of student’s self discovery and university application process. I hope that you are able to join my team and I in the UK or Australia this summer as we help students explore their academic future.”
Our Summer & Winter School Philosophy
Future major focused
All our summer programs are focused on helping students identify future study goals by helping them understand the subject-specific nature of a variety of different university majors. This is to ensure that when students are choosing their university majors they have the knowledge base to choose options that reflect their personal style, individual strengths, and future goals.
Interactive Learning
Our summer schools all embrace an interactive learning style, with a focus on workshops run by expert organization, visits to successful businesses in target university majors, and talks by professionals. This is very different to a lecture based approach, and takes advantage of the diversity of our destinations, using local resources to give students a truly unique experience.
Exciting Adventures
The academic and the adventurous are combined in all of our trips, to crate a once in a lifetime experience for our students. All our trips have the goal of providing students with the experience of getting to know their local destination, understanding what university level study would be in that city, helping students explore future options.
Two exciting destinations
The UK
Our UK summer schools help students explore a variety of potential majors inside larger areas, and are based in London, Oxford & Cambridge for 2024. We run our UK schools in partnership with Immersive Cultural Education, which is a UK registered company co-founded by the Lucky Bay Group, run by 4 education experts, each with over 40 years experience.
Australia
Our Australia summer schools take advantage of the beautiful outdoors, blending the academic and the environmental to create a truly once in a lifetime experience for students. We run our Australian summer schools, with our local based partners, led by Melbourne University graduate, and university expert Malcolm Wrest, with whom we co-founded our local Australian operation.
Our Expert Design Team
Cara
Professor Hans
Michelle
Cara has previously worked in both British international and OSSD schools in her native China. She has been involved in the design process of all our summer schools, but focuses on those who target younger learners. Cara helps ensure that the needs of students are met, with a clear passion for ensuring our programs link to future career goals.
Michelle
Professor Hans
Michelle
Michelle has previously served as Chair of the Parent Committee at a prestigious international school in China. She has now immigrated to the United States, where she continues to serve as our Senior Consultant, ensuring that the concerns of all our international customers are met, and providing us with the insights of international parents in our product design process.
Professor Hans
Professor Hans
Professor Hans
Professor Hans is an ESL expert at the Ulsan University of Technology. He is also the author of two textbooks on learning English as a second language. Hans works with our teams to ensure that the needs of second language learners are catered for on all of our trips, and that they provide an environment allowing students to make rapid progress and growth potential.
Adrian
Professor Hans
Professor Hans
Adrian is a study abroad expert, and ICEF certified study abroad expert. He has previously studied internationally on a football scholarship in the United States and has worked for the past two years at a prestigious Chinese education consultancy. He works in our. Suzhou based office and co-ordinates both our UK based, and Australia based trips.