The Independent Education Expo will be open on Friday 30th September 2011 and Saturday 1st October 2011 from 10 am - 4 pm.
Please see the special sections of this website for detailed information on getting to Alexandra Palace and accessibility for visitors with mobility problems.
On one of the hottest late-September weekends since records began the first Independent Education Expo took place in Alexandra Palace. For two days schools, as far and wide from Hampshire, Staffordshire and Scotland met the the hundreds of parents who visited the show.
It's a huge step in any young person's life. Leaving the structure and regimen of school life for the independence of the university environment can to unsettling. As parents, we worry. Will they find good friends and flatmates? Will they eat properly or stay up all night, surviving on a diet of ready meals and will they actually study? In short, can they adapt well to this new stage of their lives? Of course, if we could make it easier for them, we undoubtedly would.
