St Hugh’s works with external educational charities to reach as many students and teachers as possible. Here are some of our partners.
The Brilliant Club
The Brilliant Club is an award-winning charity that exists to increase the number of pupils from under-represented backgrounds progressing to highly-selective universities. They do this by mobilising the PhD community across the country to share its academic expertise with state schools.
St Hugh’s has been working with The Brilliant Club for over 5 years and in 2018/9, the College welcomed 7 Brilliant Club Scholars Programme launch trips (around 300 students and their teachers).
On launch trips students have their first tutorial with their Brilliant Club tutors, meet current undergraduate students, and have an information session about applying to University with the college Outreach Officer. These day trips offer an opportunity for pupils to have a taste of university life, both academic and social, and encourage them to think about their options.
Target Oxbridge
Target Oxbridge is a free programme that aims to help black African and Caribbean students, and students of mixed race with black African and Caribbean heritage, increase their chances of getting into the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge (known collectively as Oxbridge). Since launching in 2012, Target Oxbridge has helped 81 students to secure Oxbridge offers.
The programme is open to UK-based students in Year 12 (as well as, in certain circumstances, Year 13). The students accepted onto the programme will be high attainers – they will ideally have achieved, 5 grades at A*, 9, 8 or 7 at GCSE. In the case of students hoping to study Medicine, they will ideally have achieved 8 grades at A*, 9 or 8 at GCSE.
The programme is supported by Oxford colleges and in 2018, it has expanded to 160 participants (across both Oxford and Cambridge), from 45 in 2017. St Hugh’s is funding several places on this year’s programme.
