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Experience Warwick Partnership Launch

Tuesday 5th December marked the official launch of the Experience Warwick Partnership.

The Widening Participation and Social Mobility team were thrilled to welcome senior leaders and careers leads from Experience Warwick Schools in Coventry and Warwickshire as well as many internal contributors who joined us for this momentous occasion.

The partnership aims to develop and maintain strategic relationships with targeted local schools and external partners to ensure long term engagement with a sustained programme of activity. It offers a variety of in-school and on-campus activities for local state primary and secondary schools in Coventry and Warwickshire aiming to inspire and inform local young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to progress to Higher Education. The partnership provides information, advice and guidance, in addition to exciting opportunities to enable learners to make informed decisions at key milestones throughout their educational journey. The activities are informed by the needs of the schools and tailored to support the progression of learners whose peers and family have limited knowledge or experience of HE.

During the event there were insightful talks from Paul Blagburn, Head of Widening Participation on the importance of partnership working and setting the context of widening participation. The Experience Warwick team also provided an overview of the aims and objectives, as well as the impactful programme of activity that lies ahead. Schools were formally recognised with a partnership plaque to display in school and had the opportunity to network with a variety of internal partners including Warwick Arts Centre, WMG, Student Funding and Esports.

Alex Parsons-Moore, Director of Achievement at Nicholas Chamberlaine School said, “the key takeaway from today’s event is that there are a great range of opportunities for our students and a real desire to assist them at a far earlier point, in a more targeted way.”

For further information on Experience Warwick please visit https://warwick.ac.uk/study/outreach/whatweoffer/experiencewarwick/ or contact experiencewarwick@warwick.ac.uk

Mon 18 Dec 2023, 14:56

Stitch in Time Project for Primary Schools

The Stitch in Time project is aimed at primary school students in years 5 and 6.

It links maths, computing with design and technology. WMG created this project to celebrate Coventry, City of Culture, and we continuing to offer this project to local primary schools.

Mon 09 Oct 2023, 17:43 | Tags: Primary

UniTracks Applications are open!

Applications to be part of our UniTracks programme are still open.

Do you have pupils in Year 8 and/or Year 9 who are:

  • interested in arts and humanities subjects?
  • curious about university?
  • wanting to gain skills and make friends?

Then the UniTracks programme could be just the thing! Please visit our webpage to find out more and apply

Mon 09 Oct 2023, 17:41 | Tags: UniTracks, Key Stage 3

Sutton Trust Summer School Video Essays

Participants on the Classics & Ancient History, Film & TV Studies, History of Art stream at the Sutton Trust Summer School have the opportunity to make short video essays for their group project.

The academic team who lead this stream are always impressed with the quality of work the participants produce, given the short timeframe they have in which to produce them.

Tue 22 Aug 2023, 16:25 | Tags: classics, Summer Schools, Sutton Trust

The Fully Electric Challenge

The Graduate Engineers have put together a weeklong outreach event with WMG Catapult, Smallpeice Trust and the Faraday Institution for Year 11 students

Mon 19 Jul 2021, 12:06

Pathways Virtual Launches

This year the Pathways team hosted 3 virtual launches for our programmes, Pathways to Law, Pathways to Banking & Finance and the brand new Pathways to Engineering, throughout the months of November and December 2020. Click to read more!

Thu 07 Jan 2021, 14:19 | Tags: Pathways

Year 13 Pathways to Banking & Finance Launch!

We kick-started Year 13 of our Pathways to Banking & Finance programme last month. Click to find out what happened!

Fri 13 Nov 2020, 16:06 | Tags: Pathways

Celebrating our University of Sanctuary status

Warwick was awarded University of Sanctuary status in 2017.

Tue 10 Nov 2020, 15:00

Celebrating Ten Years of Realising Opportunities

We have been looking back and celebrating ten years of Realising Opportunities.

Wed 28 Oct 2020, 16:24 | Tags: Realising Opportunities

Pathways to Banking & Finance – 3rd – 7th August 2020

 

The Sutton Trust, along with the University of Warwick and London School of Economics ran a weeklong summer conference for Pathways to Banking and Finance students from 3rd – 7th August. Students from both universities had a week of online activities including academic lectures, employment engagement, personal development sessions which were led by student ambassadors and social activities in the evening.   

 

The conference began with an inspirational talk from public speaker Kamel Hayman, which really set the tone for the week ahead. Despite being online, the number of students that attended the conference was really impressive with around 25 students from the University of Warwick cohort attending sessions throughout the week.

 

As the conference was online, this allowed for more of a variety of employees able to support. This year for the first time students had a session from Bloomberg, and got to see their stock a share platform which was really impressive.  

 

At the end of the conference, students had a virtual celebration event, and finally a reflective session, to go through everything that had been covered throughout the week. Below is a word cloud for words that students used to summarise how they felt their week had gone.

Wed 26 Aug 2020, 14:03 | Tags: Pathways, Summer Schools, Digital Activity

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