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Every year a group of King's undergraduate students travel to the North East to work with Year 10 school students in the state sector through a series of games and activities designed to raise aspirations and provide information about University opportunities. This project has run since the year 2000 and has two principal aims:

  • to increase awareness amongst students in the state sector of the opportunities available to them in Higher Education
  • to dispel myths associated with the University of Cambridge, helping to build relationships between the University and schools that have little or no history of sending applicants to Cambridge.

Topics covered in sessions include considering University, the variety of subjects available, student timetables, extra-curricular opportunities, finance, making friends, types of accommodation, entrance requirements, career prospects and applying to Cambridge.

If you are a teacher at a school in our link area and are interested in being part of the Access Bus in future, please contact us as SLO@kings.cam.ac.uk.

 

Access Bus 2024

In March 2024 the Access Bus visited schools in Middlesbrough, Darlington, Stockton-on-Tees, Hartlepool and Redcar. Accompanied by Outreach Officer Ellie Nethaway, a group of 4 King's College student volunteers headed out to schools in our link area again. 

Through a mix of presentation and activities, our student volunteers talked to Year 10 students about University, student finance and student life. The team visited 11 schools in 4 days, working with approximately 275 students in total. We are grateful to the schools and teachers making these visits possible, to the students who welcomed us in their classrooms and of course our amazing student volunteers, giving up their time and energy. 

 

 

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