There are currently 140 students in the School, which is situated in the Corston and Stanton buildings at Newton Park. The School has access to the full range of facilities and equipment necessary to support learning. These include two network PC computer teaching labs with Internet access, science labs with analytical instruments, field survey and sampling equipment, a large archive of digital and paper images and maps and industry-standard software. Practical teaching groups are small, allowing individual use of computers and instruments, and students may borrow equipment for dissertation work. There are two Resource Bases which act as focal points where School students can use specialist materials, such as geological and topographic maps, offprints, some journals, cuttings and pamphlets.
All students have email accounts.
The School is an informal and friendly community, where support and encouragement come from enthusiastic, research-active tutors, and the student is treated as an individual. A rounded education, giving graduates from the School confidence and competence in a wide range of professionally-relevant skills. Careers and Further Study. In recent years, around 20 percent of School graduates have taken up further study or research. Three are studying for research degrees here in the School, on remote sensing and Quaternary environment projects.