Operation
The College is administered by a special board of trustees, under the direction of the Methodist Conference. There is room for some 30 graduate students. The present principal is Revd Dr Jane Leach, who has written on faith development and pastoral care. Today, students working for the degrees of BTh, BA, MPhil and PhD are attached to a secular Cambridge University college as well as Wesley, while Wesley staff serve as associate lecturers of the university. Wesley House is a member of the Cambridge Theological Federation, formed in 1972. For more than 20 years Wesley House has worked in partnership with the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and the John Wesley College there, or, more recently, the Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary. Each year probationer ministers from South Africa visit the UK for a month, and each summer Wesley House students have an opportunity to visit South Africa and work in a township.
The Woolf Institute, The Institute of Orthodox Studies, and the Eastern Regional Ministry Course are also based at Wesley House.
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