University Offers Grade Boost Help For GCSE Students
11 March 2013
GCSE students at an Education Liaison event
We were delighted to encourage and support these students to help them achieve their potential at this event.
”Rachael Nicholls, Education Liaison Development Officer
Over 600 schoolchildren were invited to the University in February to take part in a variety of innovative workshops designed to help GCSE students boost their grades in Maths and English.
The 'Raising the Grade' practical workshops, which were delivered by the University's Education Liaison team and its student mentors, focused on the most challenging areas of each subject. For Maths for example, topics included Algebra and Pythagoras, and for English included reading and understanding, punctuation and poetry.
The programme, developed to replace the government Aimhigher initiative, was expanded this year to include English workshops, and now attracts around 100 students from the University's progression partner schools to each of the six sessions.
Feedback for both workshops was overwhelmingly positive; with over 96% of the students praising the Maths event and 92% saying they were pleased with the newly introduced English workshops.
Rachael Nicholls, Education Liaison Development Officer at the University, said: "Students were selected as their schools believe they are more than capable of achieving a grade C or higher in Maths and English. We were delighted to encourage and support these students to help them achieve their potential at this event."
