Sixth Form College to deliver prestigious Oxford University OxNet seminars Date published: 06 February 2021
Former Saddleworth School pupil Megan Bruton
Oldham Sixth Form College (OSFC) has been chosen to deliver university level English Literature seminars on behalf of Oxford University to students from three regions of the UK.
OxNet is an access initiative run collaboratively between Oxford University, other universities across the UK, and schools and colleges acting as ‘hubs’ in London, the North West and the North East.
It is unapologetically academic in its focus and has had significant impact in the local communities in which it has worked since 2008.
Philippa Lark A LEARNING trust of three North Yorkshire secondary schools is taking part in a two-year international project researching the effects of social media on teenagers. The Areté Learning Trust, which runs schools in Richmond, Northallerton and Stokesley, is part of an international group who have been awarded funding from ERASMUS, the European programme for education, for the project. Philippa Lark, English teacher at Richmond School and Sixth Form College, has been appointed UK’s project leader on the team, which involves five countries with the aim of focusing on the benefits and dangers of social media. The Areté Learning Trust has been selected as the UK representative for the project which will offer students across Northallerton, Richmond and Stokesley Schools and Sixth Form Colleges the opportunity to collaborate with education professionals and students from Greece, Lithuania, Italy and Spain to develop a curriculum to ensure young people are fully
Philippa Lark A LEARNING trust of three North Yorkshire secondary schools is taking part in a two-year international project researching the effects of social media on teenagers. The Areté Learning Trust, which runs schools in Richmond, Northallerton and Stokesley, is part of an international group who have been awarded funding from ERASMUS, the European programme for education, for the project. Philippa Lark, English teacher at Richmond School and Sixth Form College, has been appointed UK’s project leader on the team, which involves five countries with the aim of focusing on the benefits and dangers of social media. The Areté Learning Trust has been selected as the UK representative for the project which will offer students across Northallerton, Richmond and Stokesley Schools and Sixth Form Colleges the opportunity to collaborate with education professionals and students from Greece, Lithuania, Italy and Spain to develop a curriculum to ensure young people are fully
SIXTH-form college bosses in Bolton say they have had to cut bursaries for over half of its students. Bolton Sixth Form principal Stuart Merrills says the college’s bursary funding has dried up due to a number of factors, including taking on more students with its recent expansion and the pandemic, meaning students need more support for remote learning. The college’s bursary funding, between £9 and £20 a week per student, for this year is based on the previous year (2019) before the college took on more students and before the long-term effects of coronavirus were known. Mr Merrills, along with Bolton South East MP Yasmin Qureshi, is calling on the government to lift their funding to make sure students on bursaries are not negatively affected.