What is the Year 13 Inspire Programme?
Building on the success of the Year 12 Inspire Programme, we’re delighted to be extending the Inspire Programme to Year 13 pupils! This is currently running as a pilot programme; we have invited pupils who have recently completed the Year 12 Inspire Programme to take part.
If you’re currently in Year 12 and attending a non-selective state school in one of our linked regions, you can apply for the two year Year 12 and 13 programme. Applications will open in January 2022. Find out more information here.
The online Year 13 programme will focus on supporting you to apply to university, offer academic tasters and revision strategies, and prepare you to make the transition from school to higher education. This programme is designed to support pupils intending to study at any top university.
Programme Content
You can explore the timetable for the Year 13 Inspire Programme below. Participants on the programme can click on the links to access recordings of past sessions (due to copyright, some of these sessions are password protected). The timetable will be updated throughout the year as new sessions are announced.
Term 1
| Session |
| Study with students Participants worked through potential interview questions with current St John’s College, Oxford undergraduates. Q&A session with undergraduate ambassadors about Oxford interviews and student life. |
| Preparing to wow at your admissions interview (Causeway Education) |
Term 2
Session 1 (release date: 15/02/2022)
| Session |
| How does the environment influence our heritage? (Geography) |
| How does your immune system make you feel? (Medicine) |
| Geopolitical anomalies: what can they teach us? (Geopolitics) |
| How do we see? (Neuroscience) |
| Skills Session: Critical Thinking |
These taster lectures are accompanied by a Going Further, which includes activities to stretch your understanding and opportunities to enhance your CV and personal statement!
Session 2 (release date: 08/03/2022)
| Session |
| Why are insects like each other? (Biology) |
| Ancient and Modern Ideas of Genre (Classics) |
| Rome to the End: Roman Power There and Back Again (Ancient History) |
| From the Big Bang to Biology: Finding Patterns Through Mathematics (Computational Modelling) |
| Skills Session: Note-taking |
These taster lectures are accompanied by a Going Further, which includes activities to stretch your understanding and opportunities to enhance your CV and personal statement!
Session 3 (release date: 29/03/2022)
| Session |
| The future of the Museum (Archaeology and Anthropology) |
| The Origins of Sleep (Biology – Neurophysiology) |
| The Dystopian Order: How Imagining the Worst is Norm and Normal (English and Film Studies) |
| Ordering Tudor England (History) |
| Using Statistics to Predict Outcomes in Psychiatric Disorders (Medicine – Psychiatry) |
| Skills Session: How to Make a Good Argument |
These taster lectures are accompanied by a Going Further, which includes activities to stretch your understanding and opportunities to enhance your CV and personal statement!
Summer 2022: Moving to University
After your exams are over, you can begin to get excited for university! Our online ‘Moving to University’ resources will offer: testimonials from students; how-to-guides for new students; checklists for what you might need; and strategies for adjusting independent living. Prepare for your successful transition to university (wherever you choose to study!).