The Oxford Scholastic
Institute, was founded in 1980 by its present Director and Administrator,
Massimo Sponsiello, who has organized numerous educational activities,
such as a High School of Language and Tourism, foreign language courses,
and computer courses.
The APULIA Centre for Italian Language and Culture,
opened in 1994, specializes in teaching Italian as a foreign language.
The school is recognized by the Italian Ministry of Public Education,
by the University of Cambridge as an exam centre, by AICA for the ECDL
exams (European Certificate for Computer Skills), and is in the process
of receiving ISO 9001 qualification.
The school is located in the historic centre of Lecce (photo 1), in a free
standing 3-storey building (photo 2) of about 2000 sq. metres, with a surrounding
garden (photo 3) and a large entrance (photo 4).
There are 12 classrooms, a Language Laboratory for 16 students, a multimedia
laboratory with 10 computers connected internally via LAN and connected
to the Internet via ADSL phone lines, a conference room with TV and video,
and a gym, all available to our students free of charge (photos 5-6-7-8-9).
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