Santa Maria College (SMC) is one of the Membership services of the Association of Health Care Professionals (AHCP). It is thus an independent, dynamic and innovative provider of general education in all subjects and at all levels, including medical education and training that complements the programmes offered by medical universities, institutions and hospitals internationally since 1953. The objective of the College is to promote teaching and learning, balanced education, disseminate information, and exchange knowledge, technical and technological expertise between the professionals working in various disciplines in different parts of the World. At SMC, we believe that sharing knowledge, skills and expertise from the various participants in our programmes with diverse backgrounds will lead to improvements in global health and, ultimately, benefit patient care. At SMC, learning is about much more than simply imparting knowledge. Therefore we use both traditional and modern teaching methods to suit the individual learning needs of our students and to build teamwork, and a sense of social responsibility. Our modern classrooms are well-equipped, enabling the use of different teaching styles. We believe that it's vital to provide individual support for every student. Therefore at SMC, we aim to serve as your competent and reliable partner in education and training of professionals. Our staff will always welcome you with friendly, attentive service. Our philosophy At SMC, we have the following philosophy: we encourage our students to develop their social skills and give them room for personal development we encourage our students to strive towards meaningful goals and support them as they solve the problems they encounter so that they gain increased levels of autonomy our philosophy is applied to all levels of our teaching plan. Students are encouraged to get involved in designing the way that they are taught. in short, we encourage our students to develop their own personality and to discover their own individual paths towards adulthood. Our College's main strengths lie in: encouraging independent learning by using a variety of teaching methods creating a supportive environment nurturing constructive relationships with parents academic learning through projects and extracurricular activities holding various events in our school and in Holborn cooperating with neighbouring nurseries and schools
