A law student at Homerton College has been encouraging other pupils from his former school in South Yorkshire to consider applying to Cambridge.

Josh Jowitt, who is in his first year of the Double Ma卯trise course, met a group of year-11 pupils from his former school, St Michael's RC High School in Barnsley, when they visited the 探花直播 last week.

探花直播37 pupils and three teachers visited Homerton College to learn more about their choices in terms of continuing into higher education.

All the pupils who took part in the trip had been identified as having the ability to get to university, and included a group of high-achievers who are considered 鈥済ifted and talented鈥.

While taking part in activities at Homerton, they met Josh Jowitt, a former pupil at St Michael's. He was the first person in his family to take A levels and is the first to go to university. He is now keen to encourage others to aim high.

He said: 鈥淲hen some people think of Cambridge, they have an image of posh, rich students and I think that puts them off a bit. But when they come here people see that the stereotype is just not true; the students here are all just ordinary people doing their degrees.鈥

鈥淚 was the first in my family to do A Levels and also the first to have gone to 探花直播. I did it all from a state school, and if people can see that I've done it I hope they will realise that they can too.鈥

Head of year 11, Peter McCrory, who accompanied the pupils, said: 鈥淰isits like this are really helpful in opening pupils' eyes to what university life is like and that they have option of studying at universities outside their home region 鈥 including top places like Cambridge.鈥

探花直播day's activities 鈥 which ranged from question and answer sessions to a video diary challenge and tour of Cambridge 鈥 were organised by Selina Hawkins, Access and Schools Liaison Officer for Homerton College.

She attended state schools in south Humberside and studied chemistry at Cambridge, and is working to increase the number of state school applicants to Cambridge.

Several of the St Michael's pupils said they would consider applying to Cambridge in two years' time. Among them, Luke Dalton said: 鈥淚 imagined that everyone in Cambridge would be posh. 探花直播people I met were very friendly and not posh. They're cool.鈥

探花直播visit to Homerton was funded by Aim Higher, a publicly-funded initiative dedicated to raising aspirations.

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