Access and Outreach Schemes in Full Swing as 6th Form Students Visit Pembroke

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Our access and outreach programmes are in full swing once again, as two groups of 6th Form students visited the College this week for academically-focused study days.

50 students arrived on Monday 1st February as part of the London Centre for Languages and Cultures (LCLC) for a programme designed to encourage participants to think beyond their school curricula, exploring the study of familiar and unfamiliar languages and their associated cultures.

On Wednesday 3rd February, 70 students from the Pem-Brooke London and Pembroke North widening participation initiatives attended 'Enlightenment and Romanticism: The Shaping of the Modern World', a one-day programme combining an introductory lecture with study skills workshops and seminars run by current Pembroke students. These students will go on to take a course of six intensive humanities seminars in the coming term, and their year of engagement with Pembroke will culminate in a residential summer school in College.


Dr Peter Claus, Pembroke’s Access Fellow, is optimistic that the College can build on the success of this week’s events: ‘I was both pleased and impressed with the enthusiasm, energy and intelligence of the participants. I am hopeful going forward that 2016 will be another fruitful year for Pembroke access schemes.’


Pembroke is proud of its access and outreach work, which targets students from disadvantaged and non-traditional university application backgrounds and raises aspirations through academically-intensive lectures, workshops and study programmes.

The Pembroke JCR Access representative, Charles McGrath, emphasised the benefits of schemes like these for the students who attend: 'It really is a unique opportunity, and gives Sixth Formers the chance to engage with higher education and have their own academic beliefs challenged. Coming from a state school myself and the first of my family to go to university, an experience like one of the Access days would have been invaluable to me in broadening academic horizons and showing that the education received at school is really only the tip of the iceberg.'