The UCL Academy
Nick Foglia is an experienced educator and translator with a diverse background in language instruction and event coordination. Currently serving as a Freelance Translator since September 2018 and an MFL Teacher (German) at The UCL Academy since August 2019, Nick has held various teaching positions in French, German, and Latin at Central Foundation Girls' School and Forest Hill School from 2011 to 2019. Prior experience includes a role as an Event Coordinator at Zibrant and teaching English and French in adult education at CFP Parma. Nick Foglia holds degrees in Media Studies and Journalism from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, a PGCE in French and German from the University of Cumbria, Translation Studies from Università degli Studi di Parma, and a Diploma in European Languages and Cultures from the University of Kent.
The UCL Academy
The UCL Academy is an 11-18 Academy, sponsored by UCL and opened in Swiss Cottage in Camden in September 2012. UCL is an institution which was founded to ensure equality of access to education. It is therefore important to us that the UCL Academy supports students of all backgrounds and all abilities. The UCL Academy is not a selective Academy. The UCL Academy opened in 2012 with 180 students in Year 7 (we call this Foundation Level) and 125 Year 12 (we call this Level 3). We now have over 1100 students and nearly 200 staff. . We want the UCL Academy to fire the imaginations of its students and to support them to develop in ways which stand them in good stead for their future lives and responsibilities as individuals, employees and citizens. The UCL Academy has four key priorities: • High academic and personal standards for students and a commitment to developing individual potential; • Specialism in science, technology, visual arts, engineering and Maths (STEAM); • Languages at the heart of the curriculum; • A mission to provide ‘education for global citizenship’. The UCL Academy is an exciting, stimulating place to learn, with a curriculum which focuses on problem-solving, skills development and ‘real world’ issues and ideas. Students have the opportunity to undertake extensive project work, and to participate in community activities as well as internships and international exchanges.