Access and Outreach

Pembroke College seeks to inspire and nurture a spirit of lifelong learning and enquiry in line with our statutes, providing ‘education for the common good’. We encourage pupils from diverse backgrounds to apply to the UK’s top universities, including the University of Oxford.
 


At Pembroke, Access and Outreach spans a series of academic programmes and cross-institutional initiatives for pupils between the ages of 9 and 18 in West London, the North West, and the North East of England. These include OxNet, Pembroke Scholars, and the Atom Valley Education Challenge Consortium (AVECC). We work closely with a number of partners across the UK – including schools, universities, and third-sector organisations – as well as the Centre for Research in Education at Oxford (CredOx), which is based at Pembroke.

Our three primary aims are to be:

  • Attainment driven: We aim to raise educational standards through emphasising challenging but sustained academic activities, which have a direct impact on pupil attainment. This is to be achieved through taking a long-term, strategic, and unapologetically academic approach to delivering our Access goals, which are centred on the equitable distribution of opportunity;
     
  • Regionally focused: We aim to build a diverse network of educational partnerships between schools and universities that encourage regional collaboration to address specific local needs. By working within this network, we seek to ensure that every young person in our target regions, irrespective of background, has access to the University of Oxford and other competitive universities;
     
  • Community orientated: We aim to take a longitudinal, collaborative, and holistic approach to Access, by working with younger age groups and wider communities as well as schools and colleges. By strengthening these community relationships and encouraging the sharing of expertise between numerous parties, we remain responsive to the voices of local actors, transparent in our processes, and collaborative within our sector.

For more about Pembroke’s Access and Outreach work, head to the OxNet website.

If you’re interested in supporting us or getting involved, you can contact Morgan Lewis (Access and Outreach Manager) at access.outreach@pmb.ox.ac.uk.