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Georgia's path to Cambridge - and her work to encourage others to follow

sb726 — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:40:18 +0000

Georgia King was the first person in her family to apply to university. While studying Law at Cambridge, she has mentored prospective students from similar backgrounds to her, encouraging them to apply too.

' ̽��ֱ��most unhelpful myth about Cambridge? That it's unreachable' - classicist Sarah on applying as a first-generation student

sb726 — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:51:43 +0000

Sarah Anderson studied at an academy school in Peterborough, and now supports students from similar backgrounds through outreach and access initiatives.

Chance to find out more about pioneering Cambridge Maths School at open days

sb726 — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:59:46 +0000

̽��ֱ��new specialist, state-funded sixth form - opening in Mill Road, Cambridge, in September 2023 – is being developed in partnership with the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge, where the open days will be hosted. ̽��ֱ��free events, on Saturday, 9 July and Tuesday, 12 July are aimed at Year 10 students, but are open to all students who are starting to consider their A-level options.

̽��ֱ��Eastern Learning Alliance (ELA) - a multi-academy trust with schools across Cambridgeshire and East Anglia – will run the Cambridge Mathematics School, where talented students from across the East of England will study maths and further maths, and then choose from physics, chemistry, biology or computer science A-levels.

Working with the ̽��ֱ��’s Faculty of Mathematics, and drawing on its outreach and widening participation expertise - in particular the success of the Millennium Mathematics Project (MMP) and its NRICH programme - the Cambridge Maths School aims to attract more female students into maths subjects, more minority ethnic students, and more students from socially and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. ̽��ֱ��School is also working with the Cambridge Mathematics project - a collaboration between Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Press and Assessment, and the Faculties of Education and Mathematics - to create an innovative mathematics curriculum.

Clare Hargraves, Headteacher of the Cambridge Maths School, said: “ ̽��ֱ��open days are the first opportunity for many school students to find out about our plans for the School and its pioneering learning, and we are delighted to be able to share our excitement with them. We want to stimulate students’ passion for mathematics through an extraordinary curriculum that connects ideas and inspires young people – we hope as many as possible can come along to the open days and discover more.”

Book tickets for the Cambridge Maths School open days, taking place 9 and 12 July at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge’s Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

*Ahead of the open days in July, the Cambridge Maths School’s first outreach enrichment events are taking place in June, for Year 9 and 10 students. Activities will be provided by the ̽��ֱ��’s NRICH and Isaac Physics outreach programmes, among others. ̽��ֱ��in-person ‘Eureka Days’, at Cambridge’s Centre for Mathematical Sciences, are designed to inspire curious mathematicians. ̽��ֱ��sessions will feature a paper crane physics challenge, ‘Dragon Quiz’, a session designed around the importance of collaboration, and a talk exploring ‘the hidden maths behind the digital world, from World War II to Wi-Fi’ by mathematician and public speaker Dr James Grime, presenter of the YouTube channel Numberphile.

School students from across the East of England will find out more about the new Cambridge Maths School at a series of open day events in July.

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Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� launches package of support for displaced Ukrainian students and academics

sb726 — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 05:53:31 +0000

Comprehensive new support package will help those who have been forced to leave Ukraine or are unable to return, as well as those who have remained.

'It's about finding your own way': Cambridge student Eve's return to education after 10 years

sb726 — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:13:30 +0000

Mature student Eve Hines-Braham secured a place at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge after completing an Access to HE course

First-ever Cambridge Foundation Year offers made to prospective students

sb726 — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:48:17 +0000

̽��ֱ��landmark new programme will provide a new route to undergraduate education at Cambridge for around 50 talented individuals every year who have experienced educational and social disadvantage, and demonstrate the potential to succeed in a degree in the arts, humanities, or social sciences.

̽��ֱ��one-year, full-time residential course will welcome its first intake of students to Cambridge for the start of the new academic year, in October 2022. Following a rigorous admissions process, offers have been made to 52 students.

Free and fully funded, the Cambridge Foundation Year is aimed at engaging an entirely new stream of applicants who have been prevented from reaching their full potential by their circumstances. This includes students with experience of the care system, estrangement from parents, low levels of household income, and schools with little history of sending students to highly selective universities. Their selection has taken into account their educational background and contextualised their achievements, recognising that circumstances and opportunity should not be a barrier to future academic success.

̽��ֱ��programme’s engaging and challenging curriculum will prepare students for further study at Cambridge, or another top university.

Typical offers for the Cambridge Foundation Year - which is open to those ordinarily resident in the UK who meet specific eligibility criteria - require 120 UCAS Tariff Points, which is equivalent to BBB at A-Level. ̽��ֱ��usual Cambridge offer is at least A*AA.

In total, there were 267 applications to the pilot Foundation Year programme, around 5 applications for every place, which is comparable to the number of applications the ̽��ֱ�� normally receives for undergraduate study (6 applications for every place). Cambridge Foundation Year applicants, including mature students, came from diverse backgrounds and from across the UK. They have received guidance during the process through a ̽��ֱ�� online applicant support programme to help them make the strongest possible application.

A Foundation Year Offer Holder Day will be held in June, giving students an opportunity to find out more about life at Cambridge and visit colleges, and a Residential Pre-Term Induction Week will take place in September.

Dr Alex Pryce, Foundation Year Course Director, said: “This is a big day for those who are receiving their Cambridge Foundation Year offer, and a big day for the ̽��ֱ��. This is the first time in its history that Cambridge has run a pre-degree foundation year programme, aimed at talented applicants who might not otherwise consider applying to study here, and the number of applications we received shows that it is competitive and that there is a clear appetite for it.

“I’d like to congratulate everyone who has received an offer; we look forward to welcoming our first-ever Cambridge Foundation Year students to Cambridge very soon.”

Professor Stephen Toope, Vice-Chancellor of the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge, said: “ ̽��ֱ��Cambridge Foundation Year offers a fresh approach to widening participation at Cambridge. It is an innovative programme that aims to reach an entirely new field of Cambridge candidates, and to transform lives. After all the planning that has gone into creating the Cambridge Foundation Year, and the hard work of many people across the ̽��ֱ�� and Colleges, I’m delighted that we have reached this important moment.”

A cornerstone gift from philanthropists Christina and Peter Dawson is funding the launch of the programme and full one-year scholarships for all students who are accepted. Students will study at one of the 13 Cambridge colleges participating in the pilot scheme, and will benefit from the community, support and academic stimulation this offers, which is intrinsic to the Cambridge experience. They will also be taught at the new West Hub, on the ̽��ֱ��'s emerging West Cambridge Innovation District.

As with all courses at Cambridge, there was a rigorous admissions process designed to help admit students who will thrive on the Foundation Year and be able to progress to a degree at Cambridge – including interviews and assessment. Students also have to prove their eligibility to receive the generous scholarship given to all students on the course.

On successful completion of the programme, Cambridge Foundation Year students will receive a recognised CertHE qualification from the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge, and with suitable attainment can progress to degrees in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge without the need to apply to the ̽��ֱ�� again in the usual admissions round. Students will also be supported during the programme in finding alternative university places if they do not wish to continue to undergraduate study at Cambridge, or do not meet the required level of attainment.

Along with the Cambridge Foundation Year in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the ̽��ֱ�� last year launched the STEM SMART programme to support hundreds of UK state school students through their maths and science A-levels with enhanced learning, encouragement and mentoring. ̽��ֱ��two programmes build on widening participation progress made by the ̽��ֱ�� in recent years, including the use of the August Reconsideration Pool to reconsider candidates who exceed expectations in examinations, and the launch of an enhanced bursary scheme.

In 2021, 72% of Cambridge’s new undergraduate students were from state schools and more than a quarter were from the least advantaged backgrounds.
For more information visit: www.foundationyear.cam.ac.uk

More than 50 students from backgrounds of educational disadvantage have been offered a place on the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge’s first-ever pre-degree foundation year.

̽��ֱ��Cambridge Foundation Year is an innovative programme that aims to reach an entirely new field of Cambridge candidates, and to transform lives.

Professor Stephen Toope, Vice-Chancellor

Current students at the new West Hub, where the Cambridge Foundation Year will be taught

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Founding headteacher appointed to lead new Cambridge Mathematics School

sb726 — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 08:24:21 +0000

Maths education expert Clare Hargraves will lead the state-funded specialist sixth-form college, which is being created by multi-academy trust ̽��ֱ��Eastern Learning Alliance (ELA) in collaboration with the ̽��ֱ��’s Faculty of Mathematics.

Clare has maths leadership experience in secondary schools and sixth form colleges across the East of England, including as a deputy head in a school rated in the top 1% of state schools nationally, and during a sixth-form headship where she was responsible for transforming the outcomes of a previously underperforming college. Most recently, her trust-wide consultancy work has focused on curriculum design, the professional development of staff, and embedding a culture of rigorously high expectations in mathematics education.

She said: “It’s an enormous privilege to be the founding headteacher of the Cambridge Mathematics School, but this is of course a collaboration that involves the expertise, passion and experience of many people – including at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge. This partnership is committed to developing pioneering learning and ensuring truly outstanding and enhanced mathematics provision is available to A-Level students across the region.”

̽��ֱ��Cambridge Mathematics School - which will open in Mill Road, Cambridge, in September 2023 - will teach 16 to 19-year-old A-Level students from across the East of England, and aims to attract more female students into maths subjects, more minority ethnic students, and more students from socially and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. ̽��ֱ��principal aim of maths schools is to help prepare more of the UK’s most mathematically able students to succeed in maths disciplines at top universities, and address the UK’s skills shortage in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects.

As part of the academy trust- ̽��ֱ�� collaboration, the School is working with the ̽��ֱ��’s Faculty of Mathematics, and in particular with the Cambridge Mathematics project (a collaboration between Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Press and Assessment and the Faculties of Education and Mathematics) to create an innovative mathematics curriculum. It is also drawing on the Faculty of Mathematics’ widening participation and outreach experience, in particular the success of the Millennium Mathematics Project (MMP) and its NRICH programme.

Lynne McClure, Director of the Cambridge Mathematics project, said: “There is a wonderful opportunity here to work with high attaining students and their highly qualified and passionate teachers, and to do something different. ̽��ֱ��Cambridge Mathematics team is looking forward to sharing our research and evidence base in the design of an exciting, engaging and cutting-edge curriculum.”

Professor Colm-cille Caulfield, Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge (DAMTP), said: “Mathematics in Cambridge has a rich past and a vibrant present. In the Faculty we aim both to advance mathematical knowledge through novel and insightful research, and to train the next cohort of mathematicians through innovative and rigorous teaching. Through MMP and NRICH we are committed to the development and support of pre- ̽��ֱ�� mathematical education for all, and looking to the future, we are excited to engage with the Cambridge Mathematics School to enable students from all backgrounds to ‘think like a mathematician’.”

Find out more about the Cambridge Mathematics School

̽��ֱ��development of the new Cambridge Mathematics School, in partnership with the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge, continues with the appointment of a founding headteacher.

We are excited to engage with the Cambridge Mathematics School to enable students from all backgrounds to ‘think like a mathematician’.

Professor Colm-cille Caulfield, Head of DAMTP

Clare Hargraves, Cambridge Mathematics School

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̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge launches Inspiring Scientists widening participation programme

sb726 — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:02:36 +0000

Sixth-formers spend half-term in Cambridge labs as part of new Inspiring Scientists programme