We aim to widen participation in Higher Education, raising students’ aspirations, and promoting all the opportunities available to you.

We also continue specialist provision for the most able students into Post-16 education. Examples of the opportunities we organise include:

• Expert one-to-one guidance on issues regarding progression to Higher Education and alternative career paths.
• Summer school places at universities throughout the country, though mainly here in the region.
• Masterclasses in many subjects, taught by experts at local universities.
• Support for potential applicants to Oxbridge and to competitive courses such as Medicine, Engineering and Law including interview practice.
• A Higher Education evening, and trips to conventions and open days.
• Visiting speakers for assemblies.
• Student shadowing placements at local universities.

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