Articles about 'Widening Participation'

“There are many outstanding students in Wales and this report has shown that, if they are to reach Cambridge and Oxford in greater number, we must collectively ensure that they are appropriately encouraged, supported and most of all stretched in the sixth form,” said Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, welcoming the Final Report of the Oxbridge Ambassador for Wales.

Applications to the University of Cambridge rose again in the 2013 cycle to an all-time high of 16,185, according to undergraduate admissions statistics published today.

Rampton residents welcomed forty teenage archaeologists into their gardens for a three-day academic aspiration-raising Higher Education Field Academy, led by the University of Cambridge Access Cambridge Archaeology Unit and supported by the Fen Edge Archaeology Group.

Cambridge is committed to seeing every applicant as an individual. That was the message taken home by FE Tutors from colleges across the country, who took part in an event hosted by St Catharine’s College this month.

What’s it like to be a student at Cambridge? Every year Pembroke and St Catharine’s Colleges organise a three-day Easter Residential Science Masterclass for students from schools across East Anglia, the East Midlands and London. This year, for the first time, participants were invited to share their experiences in a diary-writing competition.

Two teams from Ernulf Academy’s Year 10 were given the task of discovering what life is like for students at Anglia Ruskin and Cambridge University.

“My Cambridge,” one of the University’s series of films promoting the unique features of undergraduate life at the collegiate University, has won two IVCA Bronze Awards.

Students from the Herefordshire HE+ consortium enjoyed a two-day residential at Christ’s College last week, including a visit to the Cast Gallery in the Museum of Classical Archaeology.

The 2014 Oxford and Cambridge Student Conferences are bringing local undergraduates from both universities back to their home turf, as part of both universities’ commitment to encouraging applications from schools across the whole of the UK.

6th form students from Rotherham and Preston helped the University of Cambridge celebrate its HE+ outreach project growing to 5000 participants.