Cambridge access project celebrates student milestone and launches new learning resource

Members of a Cambridge University access group dedicated to raising aspirations in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough state schools have arranged over 51,000 interactions with local students, a new report reveals.

A couple who met at Downing as undergraduates are supporting their College’s outreach work in the South West of England. 

A Cambridge undergraduate who grew up in care is inspiring others to aim high and realise their potential.

Foster carers, social workers and education professionals working with children in care enjoyed an opportunity to share best practice and find out more about supporting young people into university at the 2014 Realise Insight Day.

A new film from the University of Cambridge  highlights the broad range of careers which the university’s graduates go on to enjoy.

One hundred students from 21 different state schools were welcomed to Cambridge for a day of activities aimed at inspiring the students.

“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.

Fifteen young people in the care of Cambridgeshire County Council have spent their half-term holidays building a portfolio of artwork inspired by the exhibitions in the University of Cambridge Museums.

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.