Videos

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.”

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

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.

A brief introduction to The Access Project

A short animation to explain exactly what The Access Project does!

Following Jesse as he finds out his results and whether he’s secured his place university.

“I’m going to Oxford to study Chemistry!”

One-to-one Tutorials explained.

“It’s nice to be part of something that’s going somewhere, so it’s not just not just a bunch of private lessons, it’s actually a whole system of getting people to raise their aspirations and go to universities that they’re more than capable of doing but perhaps wouldn’t otherwise do so.”

A look at Debating, one of The Access Project’s weekly Confidence & Articulacy workshops.

“It’s really fun, because you get to talk about things that wouldn’t come up in a normal conversation.”

“When I get an essay question I’ll think ‘How would this come across in a debate?’”

Leyla talks about The Access Project, what it involves and what it has done for her.

“It gives you a lot of opportunities to study stuff that you wouldn’t usually be studying in a state school.”

A volunteer tutor talks about her experiences with The Access Project.

“On day one of our tutoring he arrived saying ‘I hate Othello, I never want to read it, I don’t understand it.’ I love Othello and I just said to him ‘Ok, by the end of the year our goal is not to get you through your AS Levels, it’s to get you to like Othello.”

Brook spends a week in a busy government department.

“We were aware of and impressed by The Access Project and its aim to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds get into university”

Tiffany experiences life in a leading law firm.

“The feedback that we’ve had from the supervisors who looked after the students was also really positive. We know that people have got a lot out of it – both the students and the supervisors.”

Obaid learns the ropes at a top Management Consultancy.

“I found it very helpful having Obaid there and I got the impression that he thoroughly enjoyed working with us as well!”