Credit: dakine kane

There are still places available at the following Year 12 Saturday Masterclasses in Cambridge:

Saturday 7 February:

• Classics
• Linguistics

Saturday 14 February:

• Modern and Medieval Languages

Saturday 21 February:

• Philosophy and Theology

Ful details and booking are available on the Cambridge Admissions website.

Love's Labour Lost on 11 February at the Maltings, Berwick-upon-Tweed

Did you know that the Royal Shakespeare Company broadcasts performances to local cinemas around the UK and beyond?

If you are studying any works by Shakespeare, do visit the RSC onscreen website to find out about broadcasts in cinemas.

• 11 February - Love's Labour Lost
• 4 March - Love's Labour Won (also known as Much Ado About Nothing)
• 22 July - The Merchant of Venice
• 26 August - Othello

If you go to the cinemas and tickets page, you can look up what you could see near to where you live. For example, venues in Northumberland include The Maltings in Berwick upon Tweed, The Forum in Hexham, The Alnwick Playhouse and Vue cinemas in Cramlington.

Further information about the Royal Shakespeare Company is available on their website.

Robinson College

All students at Cambridge are both part of the University and part of one of the Colleges. You can read about this collegiate system on the university website, and each College also has its own website, like King's.

Would you like to find out more about living and studying in a Cambridge College? There are places available on Year 12 (or equivalent) residential visits at Robinson College and at Trinity Hall College. Visiting any College will give you a good sense of what being part of a collegiate university is like and what is most important to you when you later choose a College. It will also help you to develop your course interests and find out more about how you will be taught at Cambridge.
 

• 7-8 April 2015: Robinson College Arts and Humanities Student Residential
  Information and booking
  For further details please email Katie Vernon at slo@robinson.cam.ac.uk
   
• 29-30 June 2015: Robinson College Science and Maths Student Residential
  Information and booking
  For further details please email Katie Vernon at slo@robinson.cam.ac.uk
   
• 16-17 September 2015: Trinity Hall College 'Small Subjects' Student Residential
  For students interested in studying Philosophy, History of Art, Theology, or Land Economy.
  Information and booking
  For further details please email Katie Vernon at .

Subject-specific sample lectures are available. Credit: Horia Varlan

Booking is open for some subject masterclasses organised by the central Cambridge Admissions Office.  These masterclasses take place on Saturdays in February  and are for students in Year 12 (the penultimate year of school).

The subjects are:

• Classics
• Linguistics
• Medicine
• Chemistry
• Genetics and Biochemistry
• Modern and Medieval Languages
• History
• Philosophy and Theology

...and if the course you want to study is not in that list, don't worry because further masterclasses will be announced later this year.

For more detail, please read the information about  Subject Masterclasses on the Cambridge Admissions website. If you would like to book a place, he link is available in the table on that page.

The University of Hull's OpenCampus programme offers an informal and friendly way for you to learn at your local university.

• Drop into the Culture Café, which this term is focusing on Literature and Creative Writing. On Saturday 6 December at 11am, Dr. Daniel Weston, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century English Literature, is discussing 'Poetry for the City? Philip Larkin and Others.' This is part of the North and South Project, a collaboration betwen the University of Hull and the University of Southampton to explore what unites and divides their respective port cities. Next term's programme for the Culture Café is already available here.

• Join a Tea-Time Talk, a series which launched this term around the theme of Society and Culture. On Tuesday 2 December at 6.15pm, Dr. Simon Green, Senior Lecturer in Community Justice and Criminology, explores 'Deviancy, destitution and moral degeneracy.' Why, he asks, do politicians and commentators increasingly explain crime and disorder with reference to moral character, instead of socio-economic conditions?

Places are limited, so booking is essential. To find out more and book a place, please contact the OpenCampus team directly.