Exeter College

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Turl Street. Tel. (01865) 279600

Exeter College Website

Overview: Exeter College is located on a City Centre site, next to the Bodleian Library and the principle academic bookshops. the College is situated close to the University Laboratories and the City Centre shops.

Exeter College will be pleased to take enquiries from applicants with mobility impairments and sensory impairments, such as affecting sight or hearing. Up until the end of Summer 2004 the College has successfully complied with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) Part III effective 1999 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 to the requirements of September 2003, even though its older tradition-style building has posed problems which happily have been overcome.

College Sites: The main entrance is +1 stair to a wicket gate, with small in width and assistance will be required to open it to its full extent. The Porters' Lodge and pigeonholes are on the immediate right +3 stairs. There is flat access from here into the Main Quad off which most facilities are found.

The Main Quad contains the Junior Common Room and TV room, which are accessible with ramped access through a door (700mm). The next staircase leads through to the Fellows' Garden off which the library is found. From the Main Quad it is +1 stair, through a door, -1, +1 stairs, another door, -1 stair and another set of doors (ramps provided). The Bar is further to the right in the Main Quad and is -3, -5, -2 stairs and next to it is the Hall, which is +11 stairs and has moveable benches. Although there is no lift currently a ramp can be erected if required.

The Laundry and Computer facilities are each found down a flight of steps off this Quad. There is an entrance from Broad Street here but it is always locked and students do not normally have keys for it. Students with impaired mobility are allowed to bring cars into the Back Quad using the automatically operated gates.

There are hearing loops in the Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre (basement staircase 9). There are toilets on the ground floor accessible via a ramp on staircase 10 in the Back Quad. Additional equipment such as CCTVs and adapted keyboards can be hired as required. There are handrails on most staircases.

Accommodation: Exeter can offer almost all undergraduates three or four years' residence in College owned accommodation; most of the College hostels and flats are no more than a mile away. In College, there are five ground floor bedrooms accessible through the Back Quad; these are all have ramped access. Some rooms in College have en suite facilities, and all rooms have internet access.

Graduates live 25 minute walk or 10 minutes by bike from Exeter College in Exeter House, the graduate hostel for freshers.

Catering: In Hall, three meals a day are provided; the hostels and flats have accessible self-catering facilities.

It must be said that apart from the accommodation rooms, tutorial, self-catering and JCR facilities Exeter College will not be fully accessible until October 2005, when it will conform to all of the DDA 2005 requirements.