Worcester College's Outreach team regularly visit schools and colleges and hold events where they share information about applying to university and offer tips about what makes a good university application. At the moment, because of the global COVID-19 pandemic and related schools closures, we aren't able to visit or to host any events. But just because you weren't able to come to Worcester College, doesn't mean Worcester College can't come to you!

At this point in the school year we usually make a visit to schools in our link areas to talk to year 10 and 11 and introduce them to why some people choose universities like Oxford or Cambridge, and have conversations with them about some of the options that are available to them when they finish school and sixth form. We have had to cancel our visits this year, and so Worcester College's Admissions and Access Officer Claire Sims has put together a video version of the kind of presentation we would have given to year 10 and 11s at the schools we visited.

In the presentation, she will cover some of the questions you might have if you currently studying in year 10 or 11, and are thinking about continuing on to A-Levels and potentially making an application to university. In these presentations, we always focus on what we know the most about (which is highly selective universities, particularly universities like Oxford and Cambridge) but what we say is relevant for most other universities too - so we hope that it will be relevant for you wherever you think you might like to study for your degree. We will cover careers, applications, A Level and degree subject choice, finances and funding for university study, student life... and most other things you can think of!

If you have any questions that we haven't managed to answer, or would like to learn more about what university is like please feel free to get in touch with Claire: admissions@worc.ox.ac.uk. If you would like to get a head start in thinking about which subjects you might want to study at university, or would like some more resources for your GCSE work, you can browse the resources that we have collected together here: https://www.worc.ox.ac.uk/applying/access-and-outreach/resources/support-during-schools-closures-covid-19/year-10-and-11