Out of the 13,000 children who got three As at A-level last year, just 189 came from the poorest eighth of our society, those eligible for free school meals. We live in a society where parental income is still the single biggest indicator of where you end up in your life. Sometimes the smallest things can make the biggest difference; Teach First would like 2 hours of your time to let 3 sixth formers shadow you.

Over Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th February Teach First will be bringing 160 sixth formers from our gifted and talented Higher Education access programme London to Oxford University. As well as listening to talks from admissions tutors we would like sixth formers to be able to shadow an undergraduate for a couple of hours. There are 2 days Teach First will be bringing pupils up, you do not have to volunteer for both, just let us know which days you are interested in when you reply. We will need you from 1-3pm and volunteers will meet the sixth formers at Somerville college.

The idea is that students get a real feel for undergraduate life; it would be great if you were doing something vaguely academic, even better if you have a class to go to, but equally important is getting to ask you questions and see what university life looks like, you may well be the first university student they have ever met. If you are interested we would love to hear from you and if you have any friends who are interested then please pass it on. Please click on the link below to email your degree subject, college and day(s) you would be interested in helping out asap!

Graihagh Crawshaw
Senior Officer
Teach First Higher Education Access Programme for Schools
Ambassador Department