Notable Facts
- Mike Ullmann, the Head of the Language College, was awarded the 2005 Guardian Award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School for his devotion to languages and his organisation of all international exchanges. Mr Ullmann died in May 2010 after a struggle with cancer.
- In November 2011, Hockerill became the first state school to be awarded the accolade of Sunday Times International Baccalaureate school of the year award 2011.
The college's most recent Ofsted inspection of Boarding (2012) graded all aspects of the Boarding provision as 'outstanding'.
- In September 2007, a group of ten Rwandans visited the UK on a trip funded by HAEC. On Friday 28th September 2007, with the group set to return to Rwanda the next day, two of the group were seen at 8.50am heading away from the college in the direction of the train station. They were later identified as two females, Delphine Ingabire and Antoinette Masoso. The following day at Gatwick Airport at 4.15am, four of the eight remaining exchange students disappeared as the group were preparing to check in for the return flight. Reluctantly, members of staff had to return to Rwanda with six missing children who became illegal immigrants within the UK. The Rwandan ambassador was contacted, who made calls to ministers who asked for the passports belonging to the missing students to be handed to the embassy. On Thursday 4th October 2007, the police located two of the missing Rwandan males after one came down with appendicitis and had to visit a hospital. The whereabouts of the remaining four Rwandans remains unknown.
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