The Telegraph Magazine, September 9th 2011
Access all areas – the project helping disadvantaged children into top universities
A mentoring project to encourage able students from disadvantaged backgrounds to apply to the top universities is proving a runaway success!
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The Access Project on BBC Breakfast, September 9th 2011
BBC Breakfast discuss the Telegraph’s article on The Access Project.
“If you get in there and say to kids ‘Look, you can go to university, you are clever enough – come on, let’s work out how we do it’, actually what happens is that kids go to university.”
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EducationInvestor, October 5th 2011
Shona, The Access Project’s Programme Manager at Highbury Grove School, wrote this piece for EducationInvestor.
“This year, 15 students on the programme secured university places, seven of them at Russell Group universities. It’s proof that, given the right assistance, students in deprived areas can compete with their more privileged peers.”
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BBC London News Part 2, August 18th 2011
Thanks to a project to support pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, one group of pupils in North London who received their A-Levels today are celebrating.
“The A-Level results are in and the envelopes have been opened here at Highbury Grove School in Islington…”
“…that’s pretty good – isn’t it? An A star?”
- Matt Cooke, BBC Reporter
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BBC London News Part 1, August 18th 2011
Access Project students discover if they’ve achieved the grades for university
“This gave me the shove I needed to succeed so, with interviews, I would normally be the quiet one, touching my fingers together and messing about, but now I find that interviews are my strongest point!”
- Ryan, Access Project alumnus 2011.
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Islington Gazette, August 19th 2011
Islington sixth formers are on top of the world today as figures show they achieved a 99 per cent pass rate at A-level.
“One of the many star performers is 18-year-old Jesse Moses, the first student in living memory from Highbury Grove School, in Highbury Grove, Highbury, to be accepted at Oxford.”
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Islington Tribune, August 19th 2011
Excited pupils in Islington celebrated record A-level results this week amid the economic gloom and prospect of lack of jobs.
“Ryan Koay, 18, who goes to Highbury Grove School, was on The Access Project, which helps kids become the first in their families to go to university and encourages them to apply to the Russell Group of universities.”
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