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Alumni Stories: From Oxford Royale to STEM Superstar
“After my Oxford Royale programme, I felt I could do anything.” An Oxford Royale programme isn’t just for one summer: it brings benefits for life. And don’t just take our word for it – ask any of our 35,000+ alumni who boast impressive academic and professional achievements, from completing PhDs at world-leading universities to founding...

5 benefits of attending a Summer School: A parent’s guide
Picture this: you’re sitting in a lecture hall at one of the finest academic institutions in the world, surrounded by ambitious peers from every corner of the globe as a world-renowned professor takes you to new intellectual heights in your favourite subject. This experience is something most young learners won’t unlock until they start university...

The 12 Hardest A-Level Subjects (2024)
You hear it all the time – A-Levels are a lot harder than GCSEs. While this doesn’t sound that comforting coming from your teacher or parent just as you’re trying to choose your A-Level options, it’s true. A-Levels are a big jump from GCSEs. It’s important to have all the facts, so you don’t end ...

5 Key Differences between Oxford and Cambridge
Whatever their respective students might claim, it’s clear that Oxford and Cambridge have more similarities than differences. It’s a summer’s day. People are eating strawberries in punts on the river. Students cycle past, their panniers overloaded with books, and narrowly avoid crashing into a large group of tourists who were concentrating more on their map...

Top tips for choosing a summer school
Summer schools are the perfect way to spend a summer holiday enriching yourself, making new friends, learning new skills, and exploring new horizons. Many students attend summer schools to get a feel for a subject that they want to study at university, others go to learn languages and some simply want to spend time studying...

10 Interesting Careers You Can Access with a Law Degree
Studying Law can feel like quite a commitment. If you choose English Literature, Mathematics, History or Politics – all popular alternatives for prospective Law students – there isn’t an implied career path at the end of it. In studying those subjects, you know that diverse opportunities are open to you, and that you have three...

Life as a Medical Student: 12 Things You Really Have to Know
Being a medical student will involve working harder than you’ve ever worked in your life – but chances are, it’ll also involve having more fun than you’ve ever had before.

Benefits of attending a law summer school
Studying law is an exciting prospect with plenty of good career options. The skills that you learn whilst studying law can also help you in other avenues and job roles that go beyond the legal industry. In the academic year 2019 to 2020, more than 29,500 students submitted an application to study law at an...

5 Techniques Great Teachers Use to Inspire Their Students
Outstanding teachers come in all shapes and sizes, but there are some things they all have in common.
