Mature Students' Summer School, 19-22 July 2012
The Mature Students Summer School is for potential UK mature students (anyone who will be over 21 by the time they intend to start university) thinking about applying to university for 2013 entry onwards.
It offers a taste of university life and the wide variety of courses available to study at Cambridge. The Summer School will include lectures, practical work and social activities. You can choose between two programmes (arts/humanities or sciences). See below for sample subjects that may be included within each programme.
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Your stay in Cambridge
- Participants will stay in a Cambridge College devoted to mature students, in single study-bedrooms. There are no shared bedrooms but participants will normally share bathrooms with other participants of the same gender.
- All meals will be eaten together in the College cafeteria, where there will be a choice of food.
- Experienced staff and current Cambridge undergraduate students will be present throughout the Summer School to offer support and contribute to all sessions. Staff will stay in the same College and will be on call overnight.
- Systems are in place to support students with disabilities and/or other additional needs.
- Participants will have opportunities for socialising, with activities such as a theatre trip, punting on the river, tours of the city or a gala dinner.
The Summer School is free to participants. We may be able to help with costs involved in getting to/from Cambridge if you are experiencing financial difficulties.
Eligibility criteria
Essential criteriaApplicants for this event:
- must expect to be 21 or over at the point of entry to university
- must already hold, be currently studying, or be planning to study, appropriate academic qualifications
- must have not previously undertaken degree level study
- Applicant is currently living (or has previously lived) in care
- Neither parent has undertaken degree level study
2010 participants
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Bob Brown"I've travelled with a fairground, and been a rattlesnake wrangler in the Mohave Desert... I applied for the summer school to get a taste of residential life - and what better university than Cambridge?" Read more |
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Helen Haile"I've just sat my A Levels in Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Italian, and am waiting for my results. I applied for the summer school to see what it's like to be a student and to get a better idea of the courses available at Cambridge." Read more |
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Kimberley Richards"I've just taken my AS Levels in History and Philosophy via distance learning (after my original ones at school) and am going on to study for my A-Levels this autumn. I applied for the summer school to get a feel for Cambridge, and soak up the atmosphere and history." Read more |
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Hope Turner"I have loved the Conservation Biology module of my two-year foundation degree in Animal Management and Welfare, and am looking forward to the Wildlife Rehabilitation module next year. I applied for the summer school because I would love to apply to Cambridge, and am looking for a taster to see if I stand a chance." Read more |
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Jieniean Worsely"I left school after GCSEs, worked for quite a while and then started an Access to Higher Education Course three years ago. I applied for the summer school because I saw it as a good opportunity to have a taste of what a course at Cambridge University would entail, and whether I would have the academic ability to understand the lectures." Read more |