- Libraries:
- Although the college's libraries keep more limited hours than many of their other oxfod college counterparts, (9am-11pm in term-time, a more office houred 9am-5pm in the vacation periods)they are both beautiful and comfortable and house 370 rare historical manuscripts amongst their significant collection.
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- Computing:
- There are assorted machines avaliable in four computer rooms. The JCR facility in the Beehive is open 24 hours a day. The majority of rooms are networked and hardware to connect your own machine is avaliable on loan.
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- Sports:
- Squash courts on site, generous provision of tennis courts ten minutes up the Woodstock Road and acres of multi-purpose sports fields nearby.
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- Disabled Students:
- St John's continues to maintain its reputation as perhps the most disability sensitive college within the university. The 'Higby Bequest' provides significant funding for blind or partially sighted students and several en-suite rooms and kitchen facilities have been adapted for the ease of those with visual impairments of any kind.
There is a Disabilites rep elected annually within the JCr who liases with senior college staff to ensure the greatest possible equality of experience for disabled students and arranges provision of diabled parking and general facilities.
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- Student Welfare:
- A doctor, a nurse and a counsellor can be reached on-site to deal with any medicdal or personal problems.
Elected JCR reps for Welfare, Disabilities, Equal Opps and Women provide further support from within the undergraduate community.
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- Parking:
- A sufficient number of free and paying and displaying spaces are available by the college's front entrance on St Giles, or by the back gate on Parks Road.
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- University Shops:
- A susbsidised stationary shop for all those back to school goodies is located in the OUSU building centrally located near the Clarendon Centre.
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- University Bookshops:
- Large branches of Blackwells, Waterstones and Borders in the nearby city-centre ensure that almost every book on almost every reading list can be easily purchased or ordered.
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- Banking:
- St John's is situated only a couple of minutes walk from the city-centre which has branches of all major UK banks and access to plentiful cash machines, if not always plentiful cash! There is also an ATM on St Giles, across the street from the college.
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- Transport Policy:
- St John's is very centrally located. For any amenities within the city you are unlikely to need more than your legs or a bike.
For destinations further afield Oxford is well served by both train and coach services.
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- Green Areas:
- One of the biggest and finest gardens in Oxford. St John's students get to live and work in enviable surroundings.
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